via serenejournal

1. Did you date someone from your school?
Yep.

2. Did you win anything in Seniors Who's Who?
Nope. An acquaintance told me that she voted for me and my BF as "cutest couple."

3. What kind of car did you drive?
My senior year, I drove an [elided, because it is frequently a security question]. The other years I rode my bike to school.

4. It's Friday night...where are you?
Hanging out with my girlfriends or (senior year) with my bf.

5. Were you a party animal?
Not so much

6. Were you considered a flirt?
Nope

7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
"Jazz ensemble," which was really a rock band, seeing as how the guitarist knew how to play Freebird and Stairway to Heaven and not much else. I also played bass guitar in the school musicals.

8. Were you a nerd?
Not really, I was in the artsy-crazy crowd.

9. Did you get suspended/expelled?
Nope.

10. Can you sing the fight song?
Nope.

11. Who were your favorite teachers?
Mr Linder (English), Miss Ferguson (Latin). Miss Ferguson shows up in some of Jeff Eugenides' novels (Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides).

12. Where did you sit during lunch?
Lunchroom, usually facing the door

13. What was your school's full name?
University-Liggett

14. School mascot?
Knight. There was a suit of armor in the lobby.

15. Homecoming court?
Whazzat?

16. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
I liked some things about it. But I had a pretty messed-up brain.

17. What do you remember most about graduation?
I vaguely remember the valedictorian's speech. Less than a decade later he entered the Peace Corps and died of malaria.

18. Where did you go senior skip day?
I don't remember if there even was a senior skip day; I don't remember if I participated; and if I did, I don't remember where I/we went.

19. Have you gained some weight since then?
Lots. I and everyone else thought I was fat in high school, but when I look back on photos of myself, I wasn't. Now I am.

20. Who was your Senior prom date?
My bf and I didn't go.

21. Are you planning on going to your 10-year reunion?
That was over 15 years ago and I didn't go.

22. Who was your home room teacher?
I don't remember having home room in high school. If we did, the teacher varied from year to year.

23. Who will repost?
Don't know or really care.

24. Did you play any sports?
Basketball, softball. I had some talent at softball (mainly in hitting the ball farther than it looked like I could).

25. Do you still talk to people from school?
I'm mostly out of touch with all of them.

26. What year did you graduate?
1979

Tags: memesheepage, memory, surveys
listening to: "Mambo" - Arthur Hull & friends - Small Village 3

In high school, I had a wonderful Latin teacher, a sharp little white-haired lady named Miss Ferguson.

(I took Latin class with Jeffrey Eugenides, who is now a famous author. Teachers rather like Miss Ferguson appear briefly in his books The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex.)

When students got a little too rambunctious in her class, Miss Ferguson would stand up very straight and snap

"Infants!"

It always worked to get our attention—I think the slight absurdity of that word allowed it to slide right in and strike our self-consciousness centers.

I wish I could sic Miss Ferguson on alt.poly right now.

Tags: alt.poly, memory, things that piss me off

And now a post on one of the fun parts of aging...rediscovering stuff you used to like. (And still getting to discover new stuff!)

A while ago I came into possession of a bunch of iTunes song credits. Here's what I bought:( Read more... )

What music have you (re)acquired lately?

Tags: memory, music, queries
listening to: "Love Hurts (Single)" - Nazareth - Hair of the Dog

Thoughts on reading this post by jackwilliambell via supergee; the former post includes a link to this article from USA Today (warning, Firefox told me it tried to give me pop-ups):
"This is the Google side of your brain"

I find it interesting that the USA Today article doesn't make the connection between the usefulness of search engines and the aging of the population. More often than before, words and facts I used to know temporarily go missing. If I'm at my computer, I can look 'em up again.

Tags: aging, computers, memory, thoughts