Tag week day four! aka "Feel the wrath of the daughter of Bret Hart!"
High school. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Or something.
Year: Graduated from high school in 1994. A long, long time ago.
1. Who was your best friend? I guess it would be Cliff, though it kind of switched around through the years.
2. What sports did you play? I tried everything but only competed in football, wrestling and bowling "officially." Basketball was my best sport but I never tried out since I hated the coach and knew I wouldn't last a full season without pulling a Latrell Sprewell on him.
3. What kind of car did you drive? 1987 Pontiac Bonneville. Gray. Ugly as hell but hauled ass and I had a monster sound system in it. It also could fit about 8 people inside. It was awesome.
4. It's Friday night, where are you at? Football games in the fall, party at somebody's house pretty much every other weekend after that.
5. Were you a party animal? Freshman year? Not really. Every year after that, yes. With yes being a bit of an understatement.
6. Were you in the "In Crowd"? Not really. I was friends with the majority of the people in my class (my school only had 200 or so kids in each class). I hung out equally with the jocks, the stoners, the "cool" kids, the valedictorians and the geeks. I never really fit in with any of them more than the others, though.
7. Ever skip school? Strangely enough, no. I never did. My parents made it clear that doing that would not be in my best interest. I really don't know what I would have done instead anyway.
8. Ever smoke a cigarette? Not in high school. Really haven't smoked many afterwards, either. I did try my first cigar my senior year and enjoyed them on and off for quite a few years afterward until my doctor told me it was in my best interest not to smoke them ever again.
9. Were you a nerd? Guess it depends on who you ask. I got pretty good grades, was in honors classes, and ended up getting an academic scholarship to college (lord only knows why) so I guess so.
10. Did you ever get suspended/expelled? Suspended, yes. Expelled, no. I got suspended for a week for tossing a large Coke on a kid who had spit in it. I guess the fact that they broke it up before we started swinging makes it kind of a lame way to get suspended. It didn't help that the dean was the wrestling coach and the kid who spit in my Coke was his favorite wrestler.
11. Can you sing the Alma Mater? I'm gonna take the Fifth on this one.
12. Who was your favorite teacher? Fr. Leo, my theology teacher freshman and senior year. He actually married a couple of my friends from college in 1999 in one of those weird coincidences. He's a priest you'll never hear about on the news or anything because he's actually a genuinely good person.
13. Favorite class? Sculpture. The teacher, Vince, loved me because I actually made some really good artwork (for a high schooler) and didn't treat it like a free period. It helped that there were always dumb hot girls in that class.
14. What was your school's full name? Bishop Moore High School. It's now called Bishop Moore Catholic High School, but I think BMHS is a long enough abbreviation already.
15. School mascot? The Hornet. He even looked like Georgia Tech's yellowjacket.
16. Did you go to Prom? Yes!
17. Would you go back again and do it over? Yes, and I would have a lot more sex than I did. Just being honest.
18. What do you remember most about graduation? I don't remember much. I guess so many of my family members making the trip down from Minnesota was cool.
19. Favorite memory of senior year? Spring Break. Among other things.
20. Were you ever posted on the senior wall? I don't think we had a senior wall. Not even sure I know what that is. Is it a northern thing?
21. Did you have a job your senior year? I worked at Publix as a bagger & stockman. Read the previous post for a little bit more about that.
22. Who did you date? I didn't really date until my senior year. I took a girl named Amy to homecoming, which went disastrously. After that I dated Stacy for the rest of my senior year .
23. Have you gained weight since then? I put on about 15 pounds during college and have put on 15 more since I started working out. So I'm heavier, but the majority of it is muscle weight. Now if I went back on my wrestling diet, lord only knows what would happen...
24. What did you do after graduation? Immediately afterwards we had a party at my house, which was a great time. For that summer I delivered auto parts (again, see previous post) after quitting Publix. That August I went up to Jacksonville for JU and the rest is history.
I shall actually tag people for this one.
Matt
Mark
Holly
Lindsay (because I'm sure hers will be entertaining)
posted by Maki @ 12:50 PM
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12 Comments:
Someone really needs to explain that whole "senior wall" thing.
I know! It makes no sense to me. Did other people put you on it? Was it just a grafiti wall? What the hell was it?
Need a Blogspot blog to participate! Sorry!
At my school they put the names of all the seniors up on a wall. I doubt that's what they're talking about though, since everyone would be on such a wall.
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(under high tension Fabio quit)
Please keep in mind that I graduated from a very small-town high school. 67 people in my class. It was a winery town in upstate New York. Now you may proceed.
High school. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Or something.
Year: 1996
1. Who was your best friend? Becky. Hands down.
2. What sports did you play? Volleyball - we were like the bad news bears but they were SO much better than us.
3. What kind of car did you drive? I had a 1985 Ford Escort, which is what 20 oercent of my class had. After I crashed it, I got a 1980 Nissan Sentra station wagon. Painted it green and pink, reupholstered it in yellow plaid, and installed a horn that played 30 songs. It was sweet.
4. It's Friday night, where are you at? Canandaigua. Closest town with more than ten people in it. It ruled because it had a pool hall and a Perkins.
5. Were you a party animal? My friends stole a soccer net - literally cut it out of the goal - and we tied it to ten trees to make a big hammock. We had a firepit, a bunch of tents that we never took down, and a case of manischwitz that someone stole from their parents basement. By the end of senior year, the tents rotted, and none of us can drink kosher blackberry wine to this day.
6. Were you in the "In Crowd"? I was the in-crowd, baby.
7. Ever skip school? Yes, and ALWAYS got busted. One time, it was like six months later. My mom is Matlock, dude. She found some proof sheets from my photography lab. Becky and I were sitting on the couch at her house with an empty bottle of liquor in front of us, and the school bus was driving by, outside the living room window. What parent would ever notice that??
8. Ever smoke a cigarette? It started with cloves - the gateway cigarrette. Then progressed. It was filthy and I haven't smoked in years.
9. Were you a nerd? No, but some of my friends were. I was friends with everyone.
10. Did you ever get suspended/expelled? Never. Detention was the only punishment I ever received. Once. I passed a note and it was about the teacher. She saw it, I got in trouble.
11. Can you sing the Alma Mater? Only the first line and the last line.
12. Who was your favorite teacher? I'll go with Miss Brown. She was 26 when I was a senior. We were both into the music festival scene so I saw her for years after I graduated. I could never call her Melissa.
13. Favorite class? AP English
14. What was your school's full name? Naples Central School
15. School mascot? This is funny. It was The Big Green Machine. So, we were all, "GO BIG BREEN!" and the other team was always like, "What the hell is that?"
16. Did you go to Prom? I sure did
17. Would you go back again and do it over? No. If I could go back to any part of my life, it would be college.
18. What do you remember most about graduation? It was hot.
19. Favorite memory of senior year? The senior trip to Virginia Beach. If we said "Stop looking at me, swan" one more time, we would have been struck by lightning.
20. Were you ever posted on the senior wall? I don't know what that it, but we didn't have one. I was Class Clown, does that count?
21. Did you have a job your senior year? I was a lifty at a ski area, it was SO much fun.
22. Who did you date? We would go to the pool hall and Perkins, but we'd get ouw own table.
23. Have you gained weight since then? Oh hell yeah, but I tell myself that I am a lot taller too, so whatever. Thanks for bringing it up.
24. What did you do after graduation? Parteee - and I made a solemn vow to my parents that I would graduate from college in four years.
Is anyone else starting to get the feeling that "Tag Week" is going to be a really long week. I don't think it will ever end.
You can't handle the truth, TOM. Don't make me destroy you, TOM. Tag week is the shit and you know it, TOM.
I feel that this one was lacking in the sex department. Like, don't most people know what age they were for each base they hit? I hit first when I was 4. That's right. I got kissed in a tree house. What a slut. Oooh, wait a minute. Maybe it doesn't ask because this was about HIGH SCHOOL. You're a total prude if you don't get to home base before you're 13.
I was such a sheltered prude. This makes me sad.
If there's one thing you should know, I lie to make people like me. I totally didn't put out for a long time after I hit high school. In fact, I will let it remain a mystery as to whether or not I am, to this very day, a virgin.
not me?!? that is mean.
I knew you were in London! I'm surprised you even read this! C'mon now!
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