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someotherguy to finish his shower so we can walk to the store, I'll do this survey I stole from autographedcat:
1. Did you date someone from your school?
Nope. The one person who asked me for a date when I was in high school was in his 20s and I was maybe 13 years old, so I of course said no. I wonder sometimes about that. He was a really nice guy.
2. Did you win anything in Seniors Who's Who?
I assume this is that "Prettiest Hair / Most Likely To Succeed" stuff in the yearbook. If so, then no.
3. What kind of car did you drive?
I was too young to drive in High School. When I graduated, my mom bought me a big brown ancient Ford Maverick. I was thrilled. It cost $400, and that was a LOT of money to my mom at the time.
4. It's Friday night...where are you?
Home. I didn't go out much.
5. Were you a party animal?
I'll steal Rob's answer here: I wasn't even a party vegetable.
6. Were you considered a flirt?
No no nononono. I wasn't really considered at all, and if I was, it was as the weird nerdy fat girl. Or as the friend who would do things for you without asking anything in return.
7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Choir, and Jazz Ensemble, and Drama, and Speech Team, and Chorale...
8. Were you a nerd?
Oh, yeah.
9. Did you get suspended/expelled?
Nope, but I was sometimes threatened with it because I skipped class a lot.
10. Can you sing the fight song?
Oh, yeah. "Mount Miguel, we sing to thee / In praises will our voices be / Let fall on campus hall / brave deeds in answer to thy call / Faith and honor to sustain / shall be the goal we will attain / Mount Miguel, we pledge to thee / our faith and truest loyalty"
11. Who were your favorite teachers?
CT Whalen (choir & ensemble; I had a crush); Susan Tinsley (algebra; she's still my mom's dear friend, and I saw her a bit when I was in San Diego -- she remains to this day the best math teacher I ever had, and I took a LOT of math); Larry Nordell (chemistry and physics; he was kind of a jerk, but an amazingly good, funny, engaging teacher)
12. Where did you sit during lunch?
Hmm. Wherever. The quad, the library, my mom's office (she started working at my high school in my 10th-grade year, and still works there, nearly 30 years later)
13. What was your school's full name?
Mount Miguel High School (Mt. San Miguel is a nearby (small) mountain).
14. School mascot?
Matadors
15. Homecoming court?
I think my friend Stephanie Warren was homecoming queen, but I'm not sure I'm remembering right.
16. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Copying the cat again: If I could go back knowing what I know now, maybe I'd be willing to do a sort of Sam Beckett leap into my former self episode. You couldn't pay me to go back there and stay, though.
17. What do you remember most about graduation?
The dress I wore; that my parents wanted me to choose who would attend, since they were avoiding each other, but I refused to choose, so they both attended; that the Valedictorian threw away her approved speech and gave a come-to-Jesus sermon, and my Jewish uncle walked out.
18. Where did you go senior skip day?
Heh. I skipped a lot, but I don't know what I did that day (we called it Senior Ditch Day).
19. Have you gained some weight since then?
Yeah, some. Not a ton. I weighed 271 when I graduated (I have always been pretty aware of what I weigh) and now I weigh 325 or so.
20. Who was your Senior prom date?
Didn't go.
21. Are you planning on going to your 10-year reunion?
Didn't go. Nor to the 20th or 25th (which was last year).
22. Who was your home room teacher?
I honestly don't remember. Home room wasn't a big deal in my school, but it was 2nd period, and the only difference was that they read the school bulletin that period.
23. Who will repost?
Don't know or really care.
24. Did you play any sports?
Not in high school. In grade school, I was a big softball nerd.
25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Just one, unless my mom and siblings count.
26. What year did you graduate?
1982
someotherguy to finish his shower so we can walk to the store, I'll do this survey I stole from autographedcat:1. Did you date someone from your school?
Nope. The one person who asked me for a date when I was in high school was in his 20s and I was maybe 13 years old, so I of course said no. I wonder sometimes about that. He was a really nice guy.
2. Did you win anything in Seniors Who's Who?
I assume this is that "Prettiest Hair / Most Likely To Succeed" stuff in the yearbook. If so, then no.
3. What kind of car did you drive?
I was too young to drive in High School. When I graduated, my mom bought me a big brown ancient Ford Maverick. I was thrilled. It cost $400, and that was a LOT of money to my mom at the time.
4. It's Friday night...where are you?
Home. I didn't go out much.
5. Were you a party animal?
I'll steal Rob's answer here: I wasn't even a party vegetable.
6. Were you considered a flirt?
No no nononono. I wasn't really considered at all, and if I was, it was as the weird nerdy fat girl. Or as the friend who would do things for you without asking anything in return.
7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Choir, and Jazz Ensemble, and Drama, and Speech Team, and Chorale...
8. Were you a nerd?
Oh, yeah.
9. Did you get suspended/expelled?
Nope, but I was sometimes threatened with it because I skipped class a lot.
10. Can you sing the fight song?
Oh, yeah. "Mount Miguel, we sing to thee / In praises will our voices be / Let fall on campus hall / brave deeds in answer to thy call / Faith and honor to sustain / shall be the goal we will attain / Mount Miguel, we pledge to thee / our faith and truest loyalty"
11. Who were your favorite teachers?
CT Whalen (choir & ensemble; I had a crush); Susan Tinsley (algebra; she's still my mom's dear friend, and I saw her a bit when I was in San Diego -- she remains to this day the best math teacher I ever had, and I took a LOT of math); Larry Nordell (chemistry and physics; he was kind of a jerk, but an amazingly good, funny, engaging teacher)
12. Where did you sit during lunch?
Hmm. Wherever. The quad, the library, my mom's office (she started working at my high school in my 10th-grade year, and still works there, nearly 30 years later)
13. What was your school's full name?
Mount Miguel High School (Mt. San Miguel is a nearby (small) mountain).
14. School mascot?
Matadors
15. Homecoming court?
I think my friend Stephanie Warren was homecoming queen, but I'm not sure I'm remembering right.
16. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Copying the cat again: If I could go back knowing what I know now, maybe I'd be willing to do a sort of Sam Beckett leap into my former self episode. You couldn't pay me to go back there and stay, though.
17. What do you remember most about graduation?
The dress I wore; that my parents wanted me to choose who would attend, since they were avoiding each other, but I refused to choose, so they both attended; that the Valedictorian threw away her approved speech and gave a come-to-Jesus sermon, and my Jewish uncle walked out.
18. Where did you go senior skip day?
Heh. I skipped a lot, but I don't know what I did that day (we called it Senior Ditch Day).
19. Have you gained some weight since then?
Yeah, some. Not a ton. I weighed 271 when I graduated (I have always been pretty aware of what I weigh) and now I weigh 325 or so.
20. Who was your Senior prom date?
Didn't go.
21. Are you planning on going to your 10-year reunion?
Didn't go. Nor to the 20th or 25th (which was last year).
22. Who was your home room teacher?
I honestly don't remember. Home room wasn't a big deal in my school, but it was 2nd period, and the only difference was that they read the school bulletin that period.
23. Who will repost?
Don't know or really care.
24. Did you play any sports?
Not in high school. In grade school, I was a big softball nerd.
25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Just one, unless my mom and siblings count.
26. What year did you graduate?
1982
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Date: 2008-03-12 12:53 am (UTC)Yes, a few.
2. Did you win anything in Seniors Who's Who?
I don't think so.
3. What kind of car did you drive?
I didn't have a car in high school. But we lived right next door to the school so I didn't need one.
4. It's Friday night...where are you?
Out with my friends, or on a date, usually. Maybe babysitting.
5. Were you a party animal?
I went to parties, yes, but I wasn't particularly wild.
6. Were you considered a flirt?
Probably not. I socialized comfortably in my own circle, but I've never gotten the hang of flirting.
7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Nope. I thought band was totally dorky, and the Folk Club was full of very straight girls I had no interest in hanging out with. (By "straight" I mean conventional, mainstream. I was still straight in the orientation sense.)
I did take guitar lessons outside of school, though.
8. Were you a nerd?
I wasn't what we would now call a "geek", but some kids probably thought I was nerdy. I wasn't "cool". In my later high school years, I got into the hippie/freak crowd, after seeing the Woodstock movie. :)
9. Did you get suspended/expelled?
Nope, I didn't get into trouble.
10. Can you sing the fight song?
What the hell is a "fight song"?
11. Who were your favorite teachers?
My 10th grade biology teacher - he changed my life. Totally inspired me.
12. Where did you sit during lunch?
Either in the cafeteria with friends, or in the classroom of above-mentioned biology teacher. He was very popular and his classroom had become a hangout.
13. What was your school's full name?
<mbfffmmmbvvvft> (That's me muffling my answer. Because I've probably got it on file at a bank somewhere as a security question!)
14. School mascot?
Bulldogs. Eh...
15. Homecoming court?
I don't follow the question. Did we have a homecoming court? Probably. I didn't pay attention to these things.
16. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Only if I could do it differently. :)
17. What do you remember most about graduation?
That it poured buckets on our ceremony and we had to run inside and finish it in the auditorium.
18. Where did you go senior skip day?
I had a whole lot of senior skip days... I didn't even know there was an official one.
19. Have you gained some weight since then?
Yep, I've pretty much doubled in size.
20. Who was your Senior prom date?
I didn't go to either senior or junior prom. Remember, I was a hippie/freak. :) We looked down on such things.
21. Are you planning on going to your 10-year reunion?
So, time travel has been invented after all? (See question 16.) I just skipped my 35th reunion in 2007, never went to any of the others, either.
22. Who was your home room teacher?
I had a different one every year. Home room was not a memorable part of the day, though, so I don't remember who they were.
23. Who will repost?
What does this mean?
24. Did you play any sports?
Nope. I'm terrible at all sports requiring coordination. I rode my bike a whole lot, though, does that count?
25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Not any more. I did keep in touch with several high school friends for about 20 years, but after I moved 3000 miles away, I lost touch with them.
26. What year did you graduate?
1972
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Date: 2008-03-12 01:10 am (UTC)