YAMeme: High school 25Qs
Jun. 20th, 2007 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damontThis is about the 3rd time I've seen this meme go around. I posted my answers in comments before, but don't remember actually posting them to my own LJ. Go figure.
1. Who was/were your best friend[s]? Carl, Molson, George, Joe, and Joe.
2. What sports did you play? Almost anything in a pickup game, either in the neighborhood or with the folks in the band. But I actually did make the varsity golf team my senior year, even though I was only a sub.
3. What kind of car did you drive? My parents' Ford Country Squireland barge station wagon, or less commonly their Plymouth Volare. So of course it was the Volare that I wrecked 3 days before graduation.
4. It's Friday night, where were you? Playing in the band at a game, or out gaming with friends, or on the road to visit family in New Jersey, or at home playing piano. (That last didn't happen very often, though it happened more often on Saturday nights.)
5. Were you a party animal? Not much of one.
6. Were you considered a flirt? Not even remotely. I didn't even have a date until college.
7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Band and choir. The school orchestra kind of fizzled out after my freshman year.
8. Were you a nerd? Depends on how you define the term. I guess I was, but that wasn't a derogatory thing in my senior class.
9. Did you get suspended/expelled? No, but not for lack of trying. We thought about seeing what they'd do if we got the entire top 20 expelled for cumulative bad behavior, but we ran out of time. I did graduate with an unserved detention, as did most of my class.
10. Can you sing the fight song? No, and never could, but I think I can still play the trombone part.
11. Who was your favorite teacher? Mr. Rosenberger, physics and advanced chem/bio. Also the assistant band director. Decidedly the coolest teacher in the school, even if he was a rabid Notre Dame fan.
13. School mascot? Vikings
14. Did you go to Prom? Nope.
15. If you could go back and do it over, would you? I dunno. If I could relive it? Perhaps. But to do it over to fix things? There's not much I'd have done differently about my senior year. Other years in high school, maybe; college, definitely; but senior year there's only one or two things I'd want to do differently. (Not wrecking the Volare being one of them, see #3 above.)
16. What do you remember most about graduation? Hot. Noisy from the huuuuuuge exhaust fans at the gym ceiling all running at once. I was valedictorian and gave a 3-minute speech; the shortest one anyone could recall, but it was packed with content. The teachers wanted me to edit out certain strategic parts; then I added those parts back in at the podium, because they were important and spoke the feelings of my classmates and me.
17. Where were you on senior skip day? At a local honors banquet. Otherwise I'd have been out in the park playing frisbee with my classmates.
18. Did you have a job your senior year? Same as sophomore and junior years: teaching elementary piano to neighborhood kids.
19. Where did you go most often for lunch? Either the cafeteria or the calculus teacher's office overlooking the caf. But I almost always brown-bagged my food.
20. Have you gained weight since then? Hmph. Shuup.
21. What did you do after graduation? I spent quite a bit of time at the Jersey Shore (Toms River, Whiting, and Manahawkin/Long Beach Island) with family that summer. Probably went to Scout camp for a week too. Then went to the 1000 Islands with my family for 3 weeks in July and August, coming home a week before going to college at William & Mary.
22. When did you graduate? 1981.
23. Who was your Senior prom date? Didn't have one, see #14.
24. Are you going / did you go to your 10 year reunion? Yes, I went. I went to my 5, 10, 15 and 20 year reunions, and only missed the 25-year because I had a prior commitment.
25. Who was your home room teacher? Senior year homeroom teacher was Sister Anne James, who had been my English teacher junior year. (I think she may have forgiven me for the "Great Authors In World Literature Game" by now.)
1. Who was/were your best friend[s]? Carl, Molson, George, Joe, and Joe.
2. What sports did you play? Almost anything in a pickup game, either in the neighborhood or with the folks in the band. But I actually did make the varsity golf team my senior year, even though I was only a sub.
3. What kind of car did you drive? My parents' Ford Country Squire
4. It's Friday night, where were you? Playing in the band at a game, or out gaming with friends, or on the road to visit family in New Jersey, or at home playing piano. (That last didn't happen very often, though it happened more often on Saturday nights.)
5. Were you a party animal? Not much of one.
6. Were you considered a flirt? Not even remotely. I didn't even have a date until college.
7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Band and choir. The school orchestra kind of fizzled out after my freshman year.
8. Were you a nerd? Depends on how you define the term. I guess I was, but that wasn't a derogatory thing in my senior class.
9. Did you get suspended/expelled? No, but not for lack of trying. We thought about seeing what they'd do if we got the entire top 20 expelled for cumulative bad behavior, but we ran out of time. I did graduate with an unserved detention, as did most of my class.
10. Can you sing the fight song? No, and never could, but I think I can still play the trombone part.
11. Who was your favorite teacher? Mr. Rosenberger, physics and advanced chem/bio. Also the assistant band director. Decidedly the coolest teacher in the school, even if he was a rabid Notre Dame fan.
13. School mascot? Vikings
14. Did you go to Prom? Nope.
15. If you could go back and do it over, would you? I dunno. If I could relive it? Perhaps. But to do it over to fix things? There's not much I'd have done differently about my senior year. Other years in high school, maybe; college, definitely; but senior year there's only one or two things I'd want to do differently. (Not wrecking the Volare being one of them, see #3 above.)
16. What do you remember most about graduation? Hot. Noisy from the huuuuuuge exhaust fans at the gym ceiling all running at once. I was valedictorian and gave a 3-minute speech; the shortest one anyone could recall, but it was packed with content. The teachers wanted me to edit out certain strategic parts; then I added those parts back in at the podium, because they were important and spoke the feelings of my classmates and me.
17. Where were you on senior skip day? At a local honors banquet. Otherwise I'd have been out in the park playing frisbee with my classmates.
18. Did you have a job your senior year? Same as sophomore and junior years: teaching elementary piano to neighborhood kids.
19. Where did you go most often for lunch? Either the cafeteria or the calculus teacher's office overlooking the caf. But I almost always brown-bagged my food.
20. Have you gained weight since then? Hmph. Shuup.
21. What did you do after graduation? I spent quite a bit of time at the Jersey Shore (Toms River, Whiting, and Manahawkin/Long Beach Island) with family that summer. Probably went to Scout camp for a week too. Then went to the 1000 Islands with my family for 3 weeks in July and August, coming home a week before going to college at William & Mary.
22. When did you graduate? 1981.
23. Who was your Senior prom date? Didn't have one, see #14.
24. Are you going / did you go to your 10 year reunion? Yes, I went. I went to my 5, 10, 15 and 20 year reunions, and only missed the 25-year because I had a prior commitment.
25. Who was your home room teacher? Senior year homeroom teacher was Sister Anne James, who had been my English teacher junior year. (I think she may have forgiven me for the "Great Authors In World Literature Game" by now.)
