Am I really in the minority?

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by amber

yeah. I can't believe you worked with kids. Little brats.

i miss it so much. best job i've ever had.

Don't get me wrong, some stuff grosses me out, but not because it is germy, really, just cause it is gross. Spit grosses me out, now. Snot. But I'm not thinking about it unless it is right there, like if I have to see it. I understand that you can catch things from public places, and employ appropriate caution for the most part, but that's about as far as it goes.

oh, some stuff grosses me out for sure. but i don't look at a napkin dispenser at a restaurant as a germy gauntlet.

[amber]

Originally Posted by carrie721

i miss it so much. best job i've ever had.



oh, some stuff grosses me out for sure. but i don't look at a napkin dispenser at a restaurant as a germy gauntlet.

Really? I didn't know you liked kids. Erg. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if some penis breathed on you after all.

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by amber

Really? I didn't know you liked kids. Erg. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if some penis breathed on you after all.

i love kids, i just don't ever want one to spring from my loins.

note to all hyperventilating penises out there: stay the fukc away from me!

[amber]

Originally Posted by carrie721

all hyperventilating penises

Did you see Saturday Night Live last night? The guy who had R.P.S. - Restless Penis Syndrome?

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by amber

Did you see Saturday Night Live last night? The guy who had R.P.S. - Restless Penis Syndrome?

LOL. no, i missed it! i fell asleep at, like, 11. wtf.

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by amber

Did you see Saturday Night Live last night? The guy who had R.P.S. - Restless Penis Syndrome?

Yeah. Not very funny, IMO. Actually, the whole show was a bore.

[amber]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Yeah. Not very funny, IMO. Actually, the whole show was a bore.

I thought it was really funny. The whole show, I mean, was pretty good. Although weekend update wasn't as funny as usual.

Thanks, DD. Speaking of bore...:P

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by CelticGypsy

I loved high school. Of course, I went back during the times we had classes in caves No, it was 1972-1976

well whaddya know, another 76 graduate! (was your slogan "Spirit of 76" too?)

[sparky]

Originally Posted by amber

Now, my days are filled with one or two boring things for the most part, rather than 7 mostly interesting things. In highschool I had drama class and choir class and then drama or choir rehearsals, then also a sport to practice after school and games to go to, and then drama and choir performances to do in front of people. Or band, when younger.

The cool thing about that was opportunity, and the ability to learn things.
Totally cool that you were part art geek and part jock. There a few of us out there.

It's fun if people watch you do stuff you are good at all the time. hee.

Well yeah. And to have the time and options to find out what you are good at.

And also, at my old highschool drama and choir kids were geeks, but at my new highschool they weren't, so I got into those things instead of just sports.

It is a bummer that you missed out on the continuity of the group. That is something I really value. Those people who have seen it all, other than my family, I mean. And the kids from school saw a different side of me. Its a great touchstone, that persective and shared experience.

I'm clearly in the minority, to refer to the title of the thread. Simply considering the fact that I unraveled all that **** and gave it the amount of thought it needed to become a relevant thing that was of concrete benefit. Warts and all. Puzzling.

[estranged4life]

Having thought about it - there's only one positive I can take from my high school years:

NEVER loan someone your music (Be it CD or cassette) because either you will never see it again, or it will return to you in worse shape than it was before you loaned it out.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

Having thought about it - there's only one positive I can take from my high school years:

NEVER loan someone your music (Be it CD or cassette) because either you will never see it again, or it will return to you in worse shape than it was before you loaned it out.

Well that's something to show for four years. Better than a stick in the eye.

[Wild_Heart03]

High school tended to be a mixing pot for me. Some days it was fantastic, other days I longed for the day I'd get my diploma and hightail it the fukc out of there. I was never one of the "in crowd", though I did end up making a lot of friends when I joined drama club. Actually to be honest, most of the fun times occurred around my drama club friends, but most of the rest of high school was just hell.

The few people I actually cared about I still keep in touch with, so I'm sure when my reunion comes around I probably won't even bother to go.

[GardenStateGirlie]

i don't miss it. the only aspect of high school i miss is performing (i did a lot of musical theater). apart from that, no. i don't miss the people, the constant need to fit in and compete with one another, etc.

i look back (it'll be six years this june) and i realize that in retrospect, there was so much more beyond the walls of high school that none of us were even remotely acutely aware of. and when you spend five days a week with the same people for several hours a day, i suppose that's bound to happen. all of the dramatics and she slept with him and he did this and she's a whore business and i hate her were laughable then -- and they're even more laughable now. but i suppose that's part of growing up and realizing that no one is any better than anyone else.

no, you're not the minority. high school was lame, from what i can recall.

[amber]

Originally Posted by sparky

The cool thing about that was opportunity, and the ability to learn things.
Totally cool that you were part art geek and part jock. There a few of us out there.

That is what I was thinking when I read yours. And Strand's. I feel really "lucky".

Originally Posted by sparky

Well yeah. And to have the time and options to find out what you are good at.

Yes. But I mean, I already knew I was good at those things, I'd been doing them for years before highschool. But definitely, all that experience.

Originally Posted by sparky

It is a bummer that you missed out on the continuity of the group. That is something I really value. Those people who have seen it all, other than my family, I mean. And the kids from school saw a different side of me. Its a great touchstone, that persective and shared experience.

It was for the best. The "group" was 'bout sick of me. But I guess you are right in a way because I had known those kids from the first highschool my whole life, and I am sad that I can't really be invited to those reunions. However, I'm pretty sure my last 2 highschool years were much, much, much, better and more fun for me by moving to the new school. So much. I made a lot of new friends and was involved in a lot of activities.
Although sports was harder at the new school, the new girls didn't like an interloper getting to play instead of them and stuff. But I only marginally cared, I was there to play. I mean, I kicked ass and was on their team, so they couldn't really ignore me or anything. Plus, the softball girls were really redneck, and not too smart. The volleyball girls were normal, smart, etc.

I'm clearly in the minority, to refer to the title of the thread. Simply considering the fact that I unraveled all that **** and gave it the amount of thought it needed to become a relevant thing that was of concrete benefit. Warts and all. Puzzling.

That is interesting. I don't know how you did that. But your highschool experience seems...full of a lot of stuff. Emotion stuff, and growing up stuff. Experiences. You know, enough stuff to warrant that attention. Pretty cool.

My highschool years were mostly like the rest of my life before that. I guess it wasn't incredibly dramatic, just very busy. Busy with things that didn't really have emotional content, no big growing experiences or anything. I guess I was suprised that I could make friends and things in a new place. I actually got along really well, which I'm suprised at. That was valuable. I guess some part of me expects that people won't like me, but they did, and they do (not everyone, of course). I guess the shy, insecure part inside me sometimes forgets that I'm not really shy and insecure. Anyway, it's still something I have to remember whenever I'm in a new/social situation.
I tell you what, if I were in highschool I wouldn't have a Speech quiz due in the next 1/2 hour. Although I always waited until the last minute do do my work then, too. 3.0 GPA, baybe!!! Rock on, mediocre!!!

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by markolas

I can't remember if I ever asked you if you've been to Shreveport. I seem to remember strandinthewind saying he had, and he kind of backed up my opinion that it's awful.

1. Shreve PIT

2. Can't we give it to Arkansas?