Listening: The Pelican Brief is on on TNT right now

Reading (perhaps quality): Loved Bel Canto. Started Reading The Fellowship of the Ring a couple of weeks ago and now am really enjoying it. Very glad I saw the movie first, otherwise I think I would have gotten lost among all the names and songs.

Reading (definitely pulp): Nothing.

Drinking: still on brita water.

December 2, 2002
10:15 pm

Six paragraphs on my 10 year reunion last weekend.

(In summary - I had a good time. Was great to catch up with people and see how little things had changed. Though parts were strange, am completely glad I went.

I had my ten-year High School reunion last weekend.

We didn't have a fifth - rumor was that the woman who would have organized it didn't finish undergrad and was living at home volunteer coaching school sports and so she didn't want to gather the gang of us. Seems specific enough to be true, mean-spirited enough to be exaggerated. Regardless, I don't think I would have wanted to go. Five years after my high school graduation I'd just finished college and was working in abysmally low-paying admin assistant/ customer service job that was rapidly sucking the life out of me - seeing 10 people I cared about and 140 I didn't just didn't thrill me.

I had my ten-year High School reunion last weekend.

Actually there were two I could have gone to - both this last weekend. I spent my first two years of High School back in Berkeley CA and a bunch of my friends there were going to that reunion. I think there were about 500 people in the graduating class, and I'd known a good portion of them from 2nd grade on. And then there was the reunion in Avon. I spent my last two years of High School there, its where I went to Prom and graduated from. In the end, though, the decision came down to convenience not nostalgia. Living on the East Coast I decided to go to Mom's for Thanksgiving. Avon's reunion it was, then.

I had my ten-year High School reunion last weekend.

I almost didn't go. Many of my best friends from high school weren't going - busy with coupled people things or other family obligations. Some other friends were but I hadn't talked to them for a while and felt goofy asking if I could go with them. I have a ton of friends in DC and generally have no problem throwing myself into social situations - amazing how the prospect of being with high school people made me feel the same dorkiness I felt so often back then.

I had my ten-year High School reunion last weekend.

And I was never so glad that I never dated anyone in my grade. My boyfriend in high school was in the grade below me so thankfully he wasn't there on Friday. He's not part of my daily life or thoughts but he cropped up a few times during the evening. Someone asked me if we were still dating. Someone else brought up a story with him in it. It was like talking about anyone that had been gone for a long time - tinged with happy and sad but basically neutral. And much better than if I'd actually had to deal with the real guy.

I had my ten-year High School reunion last weekend.

I didn't know until then how many of us live in the DC area. I see one of my Arlington-residing high school friends all of the time - she's so integrated with my college friends here it's easy to forget that I've known her for longer. But there are another four or five, mostly guys that I had a couple of classes with senior year and haven't considered since. Am so used to thinking of DC as mine, hard to realize I've really been sharing it for years.

I had my ten-year High School reunion last weekend.

I'd hoped all of those high school boundaries would be erased, but they proved firm. I talked with the people I talked with in High School, and as for the rest of the people in the room, well there may as well have been a different party going on. I suspect it was more habit or convenience rather than that high school groups bullshit. I know for my part I had a hard enough time knowing how to catch up with the people I really missed and knew from back then - talking to anyone else would have just been too much to ask.

Doing (life and related tasks): Had a very relaxing time in CT, and a great time going to lunch and watching Shakespeare with a cousin of mine yesterday.

Doing (crafty stuff): finished with a skinny mohair scarf but I'm just not happy with it.

Wanting: A call back, already.

Anticipating: the 5K and some good going out this weekend.