Posts Tagged ‘high school’

Memes are so 2007

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I've seen this many places, but I copied it from Faiqa. Time was, I'd fill these out with funny answers that were in no way real. However, I've decided it might be more interesting to be brutally honest. Or more boring. Whatever.

1. Did you date someone from your school senior year? Yes. I dated Katey Sellers.

2. Did you marry someone from your high school? No.

3. Did you carpool to school? I took the bus until my friends were old enough to drive, then I got rides until I was old enough to drive, a year later, and then I drove my own car.

4. What kind of car did you drive? 1984 Chrysler Fifth Avenue. It had a pink flamingo on the hood ornament.

5. What kind of car do you have now? 2004 Toyota Camry. Since I work at home, we only have one car. I plan on getting something new, though. I want either an Escalade or a Mercedes.

6. It's Friday night – where were you (in high school)? Usually at a movie with my girlfriend and then in the woods making out with her.

7. It is Friday night – where are you (now)? Watching the Thursday night TV that we recorded with Amy.

8. What kind of job did you have in high school? I worked as a telemarketer, as a bag boy, for a video store, tinted windows, babysat, mowed lawns, and did more telemarketing.

9. What kind of job do you do now? I am the CEO of a small company.

10. Were you a party animal? No. I didn't have touch alcohol stronger than a wine cooler until I started college.

11. Were you considered a flirt? Yes. And a pervert. And an attention whore.

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? No. I'm completely tone deaf.

13. Were you a nerd? I prefer "geek." Yes, I was a geek in high school, but I was also a varsity athlete.

14. Did you get suspended or expelled? Only when I told teachers to go fuck themselves, which happened on two separate occasions.

15. Can you sing the fight song? I don't believe in school spirit. It's infantile and ridiculous.

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)? Mrs. Graham, our senior English teacher. And Mr. Crile, our junior and senior History teacher. And Mrs. Swanson our smoking hot junior chemistry teacher.

17. Where did you sit during lunch? The first two years, I usually ate lunch in front of a computer, where we were playing Leisure Suit Larry. The latter two years, we would go out for lunch almost every day to one of the dozen or so restaurants around the school.

18. What was your school's full name? Spruce Creek High School

19. When did you graduate? 1994

20. What was your school mascot? The Hawk

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you? Sure. I had a blast in high school. It was a piece of cake, I made some friends that I'll have forever, and I knew that school like the back of my hand.

22. Did you have fun at Prom? I went to several of them, but yeah. The prom itself sucked, but the parties afterward were fun.

23. Do you still talk to your prom date? I talk to one of them. She's one of my best friends.

24. Who was your best friend? Sabrina.

25. What did you want to be when you grew up? An attorney.

26. Any regrets? I should have talked to Faiqa more.

27. Biggest fashion mistake? I rolled my sleeves up and literally stapled them to my arms. I was a walking fashion mistake.

28. Favorite fashion trend? See above.

29. Are you going to your next reunion? No. Since I was in International Baccalaureate, I had all of my classes with a select group of people, and those people I've seen recently. The rest of my class is comprised of people that I don't know and have no interest in seeing.

30. Who did you have a secret crush on? I crushed on several people. One of them is Faiqa's best friend, Lisa.

31. Did you go on spring break? I lived in the spring break capital of the world at the time. So yes.

I could . . .

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

I could tell you about the last 10 hours spent hanging out with friends, some of whom I haven't seen in 15 years.

I could tell you about me getting lost on I-4, driving in circles four times around the same exits trying to find Walt Disney World.

I could tell you about driving around Universal for a half hour, trying to get into the parking garage, before driving over cones.

I could tell you about the endless stories and "What ever happened to…" and gossip and laughter.

I could tell you about how happy and successful and satisfied everyone seems with their lives.

I could tell you about Cooper, who hit me with an uppercut one day in the middle of class.
..or Sachin, who loves U2 and proved to all of us that he isn't gay,
..or Nikki, with the fiery red hair and dark sense of humor,
..or Anastasia, whose mother I bribed so I wouldn't get in trouble for my crazy driving,
..or Gjerome, who drove me home one day when I got drunk from eating too much food,
..or Rick, who falls asleep every time he's in a movie theater and pukes on command,
..or Mitsa, who is still my friend even though I put mirrors on my shoes and looked up her skirt,
..or Valerie, who left scars on my arm from her fingernails, which I totally deserved.

I could tell you about how much fun I had, and how it felt like we never left each other. These are friendships that last, even without a phone call every month.

I could, but it's 3:30 in the morning, so I'm fucking going to bed.

Adam in a speedo, among other things

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

The year is 1994. Nancy Kerrigan gets clubbed by Tonya Harding. Bill Clinton gives his first State of the Union address. OJ kills his wife and gets away with it. Dakota Fanning is born. John Candy dies. And Adam Avitable graduates from high school. Let's reminisce, using his 1994 Spruce Creek High School Yearbook:

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Speedo_Adam_1

Speedo_Adam2

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(And, more for me than you, the two pages at the back my best friend filled with her insane ramblings):

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