As requested: Senior Year Meme
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grammarwomanFill this out about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be. Release the snark!
1. Who was your best friend?
It's really hard to say. When you're a member of several incestuously close groups that sort of overlap, and people are pairing and de-pairing up all the time (as friends or romantically or whatever), and you're forever cursed to be single, there was a whole tier of people to whom I was close but not, y'know, the first pick. That said, best friend, I guess, would be Tanya K. We spent a lot of time together, made (ultimately worthless) plans to be friends until we were old ladies, and so on.
2.What sports did you play?
Sports? *bwah* As if. I was, however, a part of Band, Jazz Band, Pep Band, Dance Corps, and the Drama Club. Those kept me pretty hopping (sometimes literally).
3. What kind of car did you drive?
Residential school = no regular car. If I was home, I drove my dad's beat-up '84 Escort, which later became my car at college.
4. It's Friday night, where were you?
In the dorms, or on the train home. Mostly the former.
5. Were you a party animal?
Not so much.
6. Were you considered a flirt?
Considering that, outside my circle of friends, people were unsure if I ever spoke (Seriously! My husband told me that shortly after we hooked up and I goggled at him), I'm thinking not. However, my class did vote me "Walking Hormone" in the yearbook awards, which, yeah, considering the award's past, was not so complimentary.
7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
I played the alto saxophone in, as stated above, Band, Jazz Band, and Pep Band. (If it weren't for the lack of parts for the sax in traditional orchestra arrangements, I probably would have been in that as well.) I was a band geek, through and through, without the experiences of Band Camp.
8. Were you a nerd?
To quote
resolute, "hahahahahha. Um. Yes. My whole school was nerds."9. Did you get suspended/expelled?
In-rooms a couple of times, and close to more serious trouble, but I cried my way out of it. (Nowhere near as bad as "Ogden, I feel ugly!" levels, mind you.)
10. Can you sing the fight song?
Did we have a fight song? I can sing "IMSA Diddy-Wah" (or whatever the title of that is). Does that count?
11. Who were your favorite teachers?
Mr. Running (Band), Dr. Schott (English), Dr. Victory (History and SSF), Mrs. Eddins (Math/Mathematica)...not that I can remember if I had them all senior year.
12. Where did you sit during lunch?
Usually the cafeteria, if I wasn't in my room taking a nap. No specific tables, just with whomever was around.
13.What was your school's full name?
The Illinois Mathematics and Science Acadeny.
14. School mascot?
Again, to quote
resolute (because her description made me grin): "A Titan. Unspecified. I'm not sure which Titan we were supposed to have. One of the dead ones? That's not very inspiring."15. Did you go to Prom?
Yes, with a date even, but just as friends, because according to my folks (even though most of my dorm wing was going in a group of singles), "No Date, No Dress". *sigh* So I asked a male friend who was a junior, who evidently got some amount of cred for being asked by a senior. He wound up being my husband's roommate in college, and dated and married and divorced my roommate from my senior year at IMSA, the roommate who is now my sister-in-law.
Incestuous, I tell you!
I might put up the picture later for giggles' sake. My dress also went to prom several years later, borrowed by a friend of mine.
16. If you could go back and do it over, would you?
I would be tempted to see what my life would have been like had I stayed at DGS, but no, IMSA is too solidly a part of my life, then and now. I wouldn't mind the chance to make several decisions a bit differently, but unless I could bip back for brief visits, I would not want to do the whole thing over again. Too much drama and long periods of boredom, looking for people to hang out with.
17. What do you remember most about graduation?
I stayed up way too late the night before and slept through part of it. Actual memories...There was the novelty of not playing "Pimps and Circumcision" (aka "Pomp and Circumstance") for the first time in three years. Oh! And the great drama of stupid people who had been bad at the last minute and weren't allowed to walk. And the incredibly shrinking row of P's: the original class size was 172. The graduating number was, 115 I think? If you look in the yearbooks, a whole row of the last names starting with P was gone: Polen, Ponce de Leon, Popetz, Popov, Pritzker, Pryweller (funny what sticks with you, huh?). Suddenly, Pitsch (my maiden name) and Pyevich were neighbors in the graduation row, and it just felt weird.
18. What was your fave class?
Anything not math or science related. Well, I liked "Science, Society, and the Future" because I worked my ass off for it and enjoyed it, but mainly I liked English and Band. The former for the content, the latter for my fellow saxes. We had way too much fun.
19. Where were you on senior skip day?
I don't believe we had one.
20. Did you have a job your senior year?
Residential school = no regular job.
21. Where did you go most often for lunch?
Didn't we cover this already?
22. Have you gained weight since then?
*grrrr*
23. What did you do after graduation?
Lived with my parents, worked for the Park District, and went to Michigan State University on a full tuition scholarship. I love my brains!
24. When did you graduate?
1991. (Ninety-one! Ninety-one! Nine-nine-nine-nine-ninety-one! Heh.) We care.
25. Who was your Senior prom date?
These questions are kinda jumbled, doncha think? Neil Krasovec.
26. Are you going to your 10 year reunion?
Considering that my 5-year was cancelled due to lack of interest, I made an effort to go to the 10 year. It was kinda lame, but I still had fun.
27. How often did you skip school?
Skip school entirely? Nah. Individual classes? Occasionally, but considering my usual method was to go the nurse and plead cramps, I didn't abuse it too often.
28. What was your favorite thing to eat at lunch?
The fries! With a splot of each condiment. (The food was horrible! You were lucky if you could recognize what it was, let along enjoy the taste. Lowest bidder for the food service at a residential school is just a BAD IDEA. They didn't mess up fries too badly, though.)
29. Who was your boy/girlfriend?
You must be joking. Flying pigs and snowballs in hell were more likely to get dates than I was. My role was to fall for a guy so a really good friend of mine could swoop in and date him. (Seriously. I lost track of how many times this happened after the first FIVE or so.) I was the permanent odd-numbered wheel; I don't think it would even have helped had I realized that I should have been batting for both teams. My great sucking lack of self-confidence alone should have caused black holes to pop into existence all around me.
In case you hadn't picked up on it, my failure to couple was my LEAST favorite part of high school, and THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP. *GEESH*
30. What was your favorite memory your senior year?
Being a part of "Brave New World" as both stage manger (gotta love the typos you make yourself, in the freaking PROGRAM) and actor was pretty kick-ass. The banker box overflowing with colleges wooing me was sweet as well. Overall, the accomplishment of having made it through is something of which I'm proud.
31. Did you like how you looked in your senior picture?
My senior picture (aside from the goddamned lazer background) kicked enormous amounts of ass. I looked awesome.
32. Who will repost this after you?
Not a clue.
33. How have you changed since high school?
Aside from the weight and the dating? I'm a hell of lot more secure, I've finally got a healthy ego, and hello! I'm a couple years away from HS graduation being half my life ago. Everything's changed!
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Date: 2007-09-07 06:28 pm (UTC)I'm amazed that I was able to follow all that and come to the right conclusion. "...so...therefore...it must be...Neil?".
Heh.
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Date: 2007-09-07 06:33 pm (UTC)Like I said -- incestuous!
Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-07 06:41 pm (UTC)As a guy from the ole' Club Pseudo clique, I can reveal to you that we just didn't know you were interested in dating anybody.
Of course, IMSA was a terrible place for dating for about a million different reasons.
Michael Thomas
Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-07 06:45 pm (UTC)Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-08 12:54 am (UTC)Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-08 12:57 am (UTC)Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-08 03:18 am (UTC)As in hanging-out-with-in-Naperville-13-years-ago Chia?
Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-11 02:14 am (UTC)Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-07 06:58 pm (UTC)Hello? I was a teenager with a pulse! Of COURSE I was interested in dating people. I just had extremely poor taste and/or bad luck in picking likely suitors.
Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-07 07:28 pm (UTC)Michael Thomas
Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-07 07:37 pm (UTC)I was living in Connecticut for quite a while. I’m now in DeKalb. My wife, Lynne, is the Head of Rare Books and Special Collections at NIU. I am at home with our medically complicated special needs daughter, Caitlin. I do a lot of volunteer work for special children’s organizations, and I do a little bit of writing on the side.
I lost touch with all of the old IMSA gang except for Neil and occasionally Kim and Al.
I hope that things are well with you.
Michael Thomas
Thanks to Joss Whedon (and conventions)
Date: 2007-09-07 07:43 pm (UTC)Re: Thanks to Joss Whedon (and conventions)
Date: 2007-09-07 07:57 pm (UTC)Thank goodness for the tubes of the interweb. It makes it so much easier to find and stay in touch with everybody.
Michael
Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-07 08:07 pm (UTC)Funny how things change -- I'm married now too and just moved back to Chambana. Working as an electrical engineer.
Good to bump into you (virtually at least)!
-Eva (Schillace) Sweeney
Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-07 08:26 pm (UTC)I’m glad to hear that you’re doing so well.
Here is my blog and MySpace:
http://www.michaeldthomas.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/michaeldamianthomas
I’m also on Facebook.
Re: Neil ?!?!
Date: 2007-09-07 09:53 pm (UTC)Michael Thomas
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Date: 2007-09-07 07:02 pm (UTC)Seriously, though, all y'all --
What the hell Titan was supposed to be our mascot, hmm?
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Date: 2007-09-07 07:31 pm (UTC)Michael Thomas
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Date: 2007-09-07 08:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-07 09:43 pm (UTC)http://www.imsa.edu/admissions/tour/images/28.2-gym.jpg
You can't really see it, but it's got several different titans in it.
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Date: 2007-09-08 12:58 am (UTC)I know. Too. Many. Damn. IMSANs.
And I have been permanently pulled into the incestuous little circle.
Don't even get me started on ex-boyfriends/cheap dates/boys I've crushed on/been the object of crushness.
That is all.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-08 03:02 am (UTC)We cast a wide, wide net.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-10 04:24 pm (UTC)However, my class did vote me "Walking Hormone" in the yearbook awards, which, yeah, considering the award's past, was not so complimentary.
Ouch. How does one get "walking hormone" without dating?
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Date: 2007-09-11 05:40 pm (UTC)Looks like it! This is what happens when you pen geeks up at a geek school for 3 years and then let them loose on the world. *grin* 15 years later, our web of acquaintance is fearsomely snarled.
Ouch. How does one get "walking hormone" without dating?
Actually, I think the "not dating" part was key - having unsubtle crushes on people without ever being requited. If I had had a partner in canoodling, then I wouldn't have been so publicly hormonal. Or something.