1) Where did you graduate from and what year?
SK High, none of your business
2) did u have school pride?
Please don’t write “u”. It grosses me out. With only two more clicks of the typewriter keys, “y” and “o”, you too can have correct spelling! You know, I don’t remember having school pride but when I go back to do my Diary Fridays, I see that I had a LOT of school pride.
3) Was your prom a night to remember?
Yes. And not in a good way.
4) Do you own all 4 Yearbooks?
Yes. My dad never understood that. “Why do you need them every year??” I know, I know … but we needed to have them!! However, my senior yearbook is the only one I still have in my possession.
5) What was the worst trouble you ever got into?
I never really got into trouble. Although I got an F my first quarter in high school in Introductory to Physical Sciences. That was a SHITload of trouble.
6) What kind of people did you hang out with?
Great people. Drama club people, smart people … we’re all still friends.
7) What was your number 1 choice of College in HS?
I think it was the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago. I went to New York when I was 17 and auditioned. I was one of 20 people in the whole country who got in. But I didn’t end up going. It’s for the best – so much wouldn’t have happened if I had gone there – but I still wonder how my life would have been different if I had gone.
8) what radio station did u rock out too?
WBRU, WPRO
9) Were you involved in any organizations or clubs?
Drama club. Yearbook.
10) What were your favorite classes in high school?
Drama. Humanities. 10th grade English.
11) Who was your big crush in Highschool?
9th grade: He was the editor of the yearbook and a senior.
10th grade: John. I have no idea why I liked him. He was a he-man action figure. I do not understand the attraction. He didn’t even know I existed.
11th grade: D. He was president of the band, a saxophone player – he was a senior – and I loved him so much that my heart literally BURNED WITH THE LOVE. Again, I think we had one dance once … nothing ever happened.
12th grade: I fell in love with a guy who was in college. We’re still friends. But this was an unrequited love thing. Nothing happened with him, just friendship. I had my first boyfriend in senior year – he was also older, out of high school. He has recently come back into my life which is really cool.
12) Would you say you’ve changed a lot since highschool?
God, I hope so.
13) What do you miss the most about it?
Seeing my friends every day. Now we email almost every day, and see each other once every couple months – but to see them every day? I do miss that.
14) Your worst memory of HS?
The last month of senior year.
15) Did you have a car?
No. We all relied on Kate – who drove her parents’ huge station wagon – we called it ‘the Boat’.
16) What were your school colors?
blue and white
17) Who were your fav. teachers?
Mr. Crothers.
18) Did you own a cell phone in highschool?
No. There were no cell phones then.
19) Did you leave campus for lunch?
Sometimes, during senior year.
20) If so, where was your fav. place to go eat?
It was always McDonalds.
21) Were you always late to class?
Never.
22) Did you ever have to stay for Saturday School?
No.
23) Did you ever ditch?
No.
24) What kind of Job did u have?
I was a clerk in a local library.
25) When it comes time for the reunion will you be there?
Just had my reunion this last summer. It was absolutely awesome.
26) Do you wish you were still in high school?
No. Never. No no no no no
this is not a good meme for me to fill out. at least, not yet. high school was SO last year. literally!
Sheila,
HA! I know when you graduated because we had the same year reunion last year. We are SO OLD. Or at least I am. You still seem very young at heart by your writing, very positive and full of life. Me…I’m just full of it.
I am OLD, Father William!!!
Oh well. What can we do???
Sheila, have I ever mentioned that I freaking LETTERED in drama? I had four siblings in the same high school at the same time and they were all jocks. Football, wraslin’, baseball, track, etc.
Me? I lettered in drama.
Oh, and holy crap, four more years to my 20th reunion! What?! (You have to say “What?!” like Betty Butterfield in her $cientology video.)
26) Do you wish you were still in high school?
I think I would hold anyone suspect who answered yes to this. Except maybe for someone not very far removed from it. Even if you ruled high school, I would hope that the emotional growth since then would make you not want to go back.
Red,
My Condolences on your terrible Prom experience. I’m led to believe that everyone’s was terrible in one way or another.
You were 16 in your senior year?? Geez, you must have skipped one or two grades (I knew you were gifted!)
JFH – My birthday’s in November – I was always younger than everyone in my year – at least for a good while. When I met college-junior-man, I was 16.
Hmmm, I might be off on that. I might have been 17 – that probably makes more sense. I know I was always the LAST in my group to be able to do stuff – drink, vote, get into R movies … I was always the person that needed to be snuck into places for months out of the year. hahahahaha
Funny, 10th grade English was one of my favorite classes in high school too. It was taught that year, and that year only, by Mr. D-, the Latin teacher, who for some reason got slated for this English class. He was very obviously gay, even though he never said anything about that, looked sort of like Fred Astaire with a big butt, had a small, quiet speaking voice but a huge uproarious laugh, and was revered by the rest of the faculty as being the most thoroughly educated literary scholar in the school. His enthusiasm for literature was infectuous. Up to that point I was basically a math/science geek, but he lit the fire that eventually led me to a doctorate in literature.
You’re the greatest, Mr. D!
Fred Astaire with a big butt- haahhahahahahahahah!! “Freddy got back..”
In respose to question 21- “Were you always late for class”: I have to tell you I held my breath a little bit, thinking you might have turned into a secret pot-smoker after your apres-bowling van experience with Richard B. and Helen et al.
You never know, after all, you and Kate kept the van ride a secret for 20+ years. I’m just sayin’…
Beth – yeah, you know me – I was a closet “dumprat” all this time!!!
High-School Meme
We’re Army free and full of memes today! Sheila’s done hers — here’s mine (edited because did u? NO.): 1) Where did you graduate from and what year? Marion High School, 1983. Beer cost money, but sex is free, we’re
High School
What the hell. It’s not like substance blogging has ever been my trademark. Here’s my response to the high school meme (fuck off all you people with your “ooo, I hate this word and therefore nobody on Earth should use…
How Twilight Zone – I was also 16 my senior year, and my first job was identical. My best guess is that we were same grad year, too. But I was in chess, not drama.