10 Random Things

My Senior Photo, circa 1991

 

10 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT THE HIGHSCHOOL ME

1. I was in every possible group, club and extra-curricular activity during highschool, because I thought it would look good on my college applications.  (The irony here is that I went to a state university where the only entrance requirement for in-state admission is that you graduate from a Montana high school.)

2. I took the PSAT in my pajamas and slippers because I didn't think it was "a big deal."  (I got the second highest score in my class.  Apparently, fuzzy slippers are the antidote to test anxiety.)

3. I went to a bonfire party my Junior year that just happened to be held on the night before the State Music Festival.  I drank way too much and was sick for the next two days.  (Experiencing dry heaves in the back of a school bus for 181 miles is no way to spend a Saturday morning.)  For the record, this is the one and only time I've ever been drunk.  I guess when you do a thing THAT thoroughly, you only need to do it once.

4. I bought a pair of glasses with only glass in the lenses because I thought they would make me look intimidatingly smart at debate meets.  I don't know if they made me look intelligent, but apparently they made me look like someone boys on opposing debate teams would like to make out with....

5. After one debate meet, I made out with a boy (from a rival school) I had debated that day, and we got caught.  He's now the Deputy County Attorney in the city where I live.  I'm a paralegal, so our paths cross once in awhile.  He's still dreamy.  (And he still knows it....)

6. I lettered in Choir and attended all the Letterman's Club meetings - just to annoy the "jocks" who thought their letter mattered more than mine did, because "Choir is not a sport."

7. When I was a Senior, I skipped study hall so regularly that the guidance counselor threatened to not let me graduate because I had violated the 10-day policy (if you miss more than 10 days in a class, you don't get credit for that class).  I reminded him that study hall was a non-credit class, left his office...and skipped study hall.

8. I lived in an apartment with a roommate my Senior year.

9. I was the (self-proclaimed) Poet Laureate of my Senior class and wrote the graduation poem for the Senior edition of the school newspaper.  (And yes, I did add "Senior Class Poet Laureate" to my list of impressive extra curricular activities.)

10. I do not keep in touch with any of my highschool classmates, nor did I attend my 20-year class reunion.  I see some of them every once in awhile, but we're not "friends".  (I am, however, still friends with several of the people who were my neighbors when I lived in Student Housing at the U of M.  We don't see each other nearly enough, though....)


(I'm linking up to the Babes in the Bleachers edition of Monday Listicles at The Good Life.)