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okay, i went ahead and did the meme i've been seeing around lately.
[ My Senior Year of High School ]
[What year was it?]
1994-1995
[What were your three favorite bands?]
R.E.M., Pink Floyd, and maybe Toad the Wet Sprocket?
[What was your favorite outfit?]
Probably jeans and a tie-dye T-shirt.
[What was up with your hair?]
Oh, it was horrible. Very short back and sides underneath very long top, parted in the middle, hanging past my chin, slightly wavy. Yes, there are probably pictures online. No I will not post a link.
[Who were your best friends?]
Cory, Danny, Briggs, Brian, Mark
[What did you do after school?]
Homework, computer games, MUDs, programming, TV. Sometimes rehearsal for a play, maybe?
[Where did you work?]
Didn't work in high school. I was busy doing all my homework, playing on MUDs, and being in plays. Actually, I'm not sure I was actually in a play my senior year, but whatever.
[Did you take the bus?]
Nope. My mom dropped me off at school (usually late, because I could never wake up), and I think my senior year she also picked me up, but maybe I got rides home with friends. I can't keep the different years straight in my memory.
[Who did you have a crush on?]
Senior year? Ummm. My girlfriend Emily, when we were together. Maybe this girl Carrie? I'm sure I had some dreamy unrequited infatuation with some girl, but I can't remember them now.
[Did you fight with your parents?]
My senior year? Yes. My mom and I argued a LOT. It was very stressful. I was ready to leave, my sister was gone, it was tough. But we get along great now, we just had to grow into it.
[Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?]
Claire Danes, maybe? Actually, that probably wasn't until college. Ummm. Wow, I really don't remember. My sister would know.
[Did you smoke cigarettes?]
Not once.
[Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?]
I think so, but not because I was too nervous to find my locker. More likely it was so I could have more time to talk to people between classes. Probably explains all my back problems now.
[Did you have a 'clique'?]
Not really, just some friends through theater, some friends through literary club, some friends through the temple youth group, and some friends I'd grown up with. I was extremely geeky and not too popular, but I had my homeys for sure.
[Did you have "The Max" like Zach Kelly and Slater?]
I don't even know what that means, because apparently I'm like the only person I know who never watched Saved By the Bell.
[Admit it, were you popular?]
No. I was popular once in fifth grade, but that was about it. But I don't think it really ever interested me to be popular, beyond the obvious benefit of having less people make fun of and/or pick on me. Which didn't really happen much by the time I was a senior.
[Who did you want to be just like?]
I think I've always sort of relied on my own ideals rather than external heroes, really, but I'm sure I wanted to be a lot like my grandfather, and maybe Albert Einstein.
[What did you want to be when you grew up?]
A poet, an architect, a pre-school teacher, a software developer, a physicist, a mathematician. I really wasn't quite sure yet. I'm still not, but for now it looks like software developer was right.
[Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now?]
I had no idea, but I don't think working in Austin as a software developer with a cool apartment and a beautiful girlfriend would have been too far from my imagination, so I guess I'm doing okay. I probably thought I'd be married by now. I had no idea how much I would learn in life. Life really has been an extraordinarily surprising thing, continually getting better and more interesting to me.
[ My Senior Year of High School ]
[What year was it?]
1994-1995
[What were your three favorite bands?]
R.E.M., Pink Floyd, and maybe Toad the Wet Sprocket?
[What was your favorite outfit?]
Probably jeans and a tie-dye T-shirt.
[What was up with your hair?]
Oh, it was horrible. Very short back and sides underneath very long top, parted in the middle, hanging past my chin, slightly wavy. Yes, there are probably pictures online. No I will not post a link.
[Who were your best friends?]
Cory, Danny, Briggs, Brian, Mark
[What did you do after school?]
Homework, computer games, MUDs, programming, TV. Sometimes rehearsal for a play, maybe?
[Where did you work?]
Didn't work in high school. I was busy doing all my homework, playing on MUDs, and being in plays. Actually, I'm not sure I was actually in a play my senior year, but whatever.
[Did you take the bus?]
Nope. My mom dropped me off at school (usually late, because I could never wake up), and I think my senior year she also picked me up, but maybe I got rides home with friends. I can't keep the different years straight in my memory.
[Who did you have a crush on?]
Senior year? Ummm. My girlfriend Emily, when we were together. Maybe this girl Carrie? I'm sure I had some dreamy unrequited infatuation with some girl, but I can't remember them now.
[Did you fight with your parents?]
My senior year? Yes. My mom and I argued a LOT. It was very stressful. I was ready to leave, my sister was gone, it was tough. But we get along great now, we just had to grow into it.
[Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?]
Claire Danes, maybe? Actually, that probably wasn't until college. Ummm. Wow, I really don't remember. My sister would know.
[Did you smoke cigarettes?]
Not once.
[Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?]
I think so, but not because I was too nervous to find my locker. More likely it was so I could have more time to talk to people between classes. Probably explains all my back problems now.
[Did you have a 'clique'?]
Not really, just some friends through theater, some friends through literary club, some friends through the temple youth group, and some friends I'd grown up with. I was extremely geeky and not too popular, but I had my homeys for sure.
[Did you have "The Max" like Zach Kelly and Slater?]
I don't even know what that means, because apparently I'm like the only person I know who never watched Saved By the Bell.
[Admit it, were you popular?]
No. I was popular once in fifth grade, but that was about it. But I don't think it really ever interested me to be popular, beyond the obvious benefit of having less people make fun of and/or pick on me. Which didn't really happen much by the time I was a senior.
[Who did you want to be just like?]
I think I've always sort of relied on my own ideals rather than external heroes, really, but I'm sure I wanted to be a lot like my grandfather, and maybe Albert Einstein.
[What did you want to be when you grew up?]
A poet, an architect, a pre-school teacher, a software developer, a physicist, a mathematician. I really wasn't quite sure yet. I'm still not, but for now it looks like software developer was right.
[Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now?]
I had no idea, but I don't think working in Austin as a software developer with a cool apartment and a beautiful girlfriend would have been too far from my imagination, so I guess I'm doing okay. I probably thought I'd be married by now. I had no idea how much I would learn in life. Life really has been an extraordinarily surprising thing, continually getting better and more interesting to me.