9 Years and Counting...
So, as you may have noticed, we're quickly sneaking up on our 10 year reunion. Now, Z-dawg and I have already talked about this and he is of the opinion (and I have to say I concur) that no one we'd really like to see and catch-up with will be there (Paul Goldhammer and Thad Hardy, for instance) so why go? Gjee, I don't know what your plans are but I'd like to propose a third option (going and not going being options 1 and 2):
Alternate 10 year reunion in a location yet to be determined. One of us, I nominate the bubbly girl, procures access to the list of contacts from whomever is organizing the official reunion, and then we get ahold of those deemed worthy for our "Best of 97" reunion and actually maybe enjoy ourselves while going through this cultural right of passage.
What say you comrades? Shall we reunite and conquer?
Alternate 10 year reunion in a location yet to be determined. One of us, I nominate the bubbly girl, procures access to the list of contacts from whomever is organizing the official reunion, and then we get ahold of those deemed worthy for our "Best of 97" reunion and actually maybe enjoy ourselves while going through this cultural right of passage.
What say you comrades? Shall we reunite and conquer?
posted by Diptherio at
4:10 PM
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I think this is an awesome idea. Practically speaking though, it might be difficult. Did I mention I'm moving to Korea?
IF we reunite, I propose that it takes place in another city, far away from Billings. Not out of this country, mind you, but out of the reaches of the regular-reunionites.
I was talking to Joey the other night and he was saying that, through MySpace.com, he has been contacted by loads of other former classmates. I cringed as he named the names of those who've contacted him. (Yet another reason to avoid popular "social networking" sites and keep our semi-pseudonyms on this site.
I've decided that on this issue, I'm staunchly partisan. I don't want to be anywhere near these people, nor to I want to be near anyone who wants to play on both teams. For this reason, I think that any "cool kids" reunion should be far, far away.
As for a roster, I can think of barely 5 other people from high-school that I ever wish to see or hear about again, so I'd be curious to see who you two would consider inviting. I say we give each other veto power over one another's choices.
1. To be honest, I'm not sure I can even come up with five mates I'd like to see again. I'll work on it.
2. Far away from Billings is always good, but who can afford a trip to Vancover to see Thad?
3. Hey Ihab-- are you out there right now?
that's vancouver.
Out where?
Here? Yes.
Korea or Vancouver? No.
...and when I said I can think of 5 other people, I was including the two of you in that 5... so what I meant was: if I stretch my tolerance for former classmates as far as my partisanship will allow, I can think of three additional people I wouldn't mind seeing.
Though now that I think of it, wanting to play catch-up with an individual and getting them all together in an uncomfortable (and probably embarrassingly overweight and drunk) group are two different things. Hmmm... I'll really need to think about my nominees.
Honestly, I can hardly remember anyone from high school. I guess it's time to get out the old yearbook and separate the goats and the sheep.
And of course it's going to be awkward. The three people we could stand back then probably won't even like us anymore.
Are you at work now or what?
Yes, I'm at work, though, obviously, I'm not working.
You're right about other like-minded people. Who's going to accept an invitation from us? I wonder if other people are even aware of the impending reunion. It seems like the only people who bring the "r" word up is former classmates, though I can't deny that the thought occasionally hitches itself to my train of thought.
Of course, there isn't really any penalty to asking people to join our renegade reunion. If they say "no, I hate you," you've haven't really lost anything other than that sliver of self-esteem that was totally conditional on the assumption that a particular person from your unremarkable past didn't think you were an asshole, which turned out to be wrong anyway.
Anyway, are you working right now?
Yeah, I'm at work now, too, though like you, not getting much done. My "office hours" are really just a chance for me to steal cookies from the English office and surf the web using high speed internet.
As for the reunion: are we allowed to share names from our grand list on this blog? How annonymous are we being? Also- just for the record- while I do think this whole idea is pretty impractical and unrealistic, I still want to talk about it as if we're really going to do it.
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Also, I might be a lot more successful at (and excited about) constructing a list of all the people I don't want to come.
I'm just saying.
Well, you've got two of mine already, Thad and Paul. I saw Tim Struck the other day over in B-town and he's actually turned out to be a pretty cool guy (I doubt that either of you would remember him.) And actually, Nick Schmidt was always pretty cool. Jamie Porter? I saw her a few years back while collecting petition signatures, and it struck me that she was a really interesting person.
I guess it's pretty obvious that I'm going with the social outcast-types here (have I mentioned that I work with Anya Miles, remember her? Big change). I can't think of anybody else off hand (what about that retarded guy that everybody loved, what's his name) but I think it could be kinda fun.
And Chris, nobody's said you have to get fucked up on booze.
tim, nick, anya... sorry, none of it's really coming back to me. it might be too embarrassing for me to show up at our reunion and not recognize anybody.
Yeah, we did kind of travel in different circles alot of the time. Look through the yearbook, though, and see who you can come up with. And while you're at it, be sure to notice how EVERY SINGLE girl has her bangs molded into the shape of a large-bore curling iron. Hilarious.
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