We'll start with Adrian though because I love this picture of him looking very important walking down the halls of his HS in his Academy of Finance finery. Adrian dressed in a suit and tie every other week as part of a business program.
This is me on graduation day with my parents. That was a very very happy day for me. High school was really not a fun place for me especially since I moved my junior year to a close-knit community and a much smaller high school were everyone knew everyone - well except for me and the handful of other move-ins like me.
I just had to include these in here - these are some of my HS class folders that I've saved for all these years. I used to doodle and write favorite lyrics on everything!! The scary guy on the Trig folder is suppose to be Trent Reznor from NIN. I had a habit of falling asleep in my Trig class, more like I was lulled to sleep every afternoon by the dulcet tones of my teacher Mr. Palmer. I drew the pic of Trent to wake me up after I got a really low grade on a test. I think the only "B" I ever got in high school was in that Trig class!Okay and I would be totally remiss if I did not share with you at least one high school poem since I carried around my poetry journal all the time, you know just in case the mood struck me right and I had to jot down my thoughts in prose!:)
Listless confusion
abides with me,
filling my ever aching mind.
I look to the right
and left
only to find myself
staring back at me
with strange eyes.
Never before seeing my own face
I run from myself,
but like a shadow
I fall
stretched out on the ground
dark outline
of what I once was.
(Isn't that the epitome of high-schoolness??!!)
So there's a short and fragmented trip down high school memory lane. I was talking to a friend the other day and I think she put it best: "Isn't it great that most of us don't peak in high school!" Oh yes my friend it is!!
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Oh, Coach Palmer's Trig class. I wonder if we were in the same one. I got a C and quit half-way through. Never had a problem with math until that class. Ugh.
I LOVED your outfit, and I'm so glad you guys came to the dance and had a fun time. High school is not something I'd love to go back to either, and I lived there forever!
that is awesome! i love the poem and the doodled book covers. i did a LOT of doodling in high school as well. and a lot of sleeping in math.... fun times. great to see you at the dance, too! loved your outfit!
A low grade was a B?!?!?! LOL, not in my life it wasn't. I suppose that is why you use words like dulcet, and prose, and I was ecstatic with a c!
Your friend's comment is so very true. I would never want to go back, but it is fun to see how far I've come. I was actually thinking of just making up a completely different high school persona for the dance because those years were so weird for me. I have many of those angst-filled poems and and a very ornate U2 logo somewhere. I even have the same story about math. I was a National Merit Commended student, honor society, etc, until 12th grade College Algebra. Yikes. All except mine was a D. Anyway, thanks for sharing. I'm so sorry we missed the dance. Sounds like it was a blast.
I love that you have those old folders.
You looked great Friday night. I told Michael on the way home that I couldn't believe you weren't even an attendant. Competition was fierce, I tell you!
Love the high school reunion dance idea. I would never want to go back, but just to see what everyone was like is really fun.
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