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Senior Year
Your senior year in High School is supposed to be "the best year of your life." Let's see how much you remember.
Your senior year in High School is supposed to be "the best year of your life." Let's see how much you remember.
Year: 1999
1. Who was/were your best friend/s?
Jon, Artie, Erin, Karen, Hannaford, Pearl
2. What sports did you play?
I was being heavily recruited by UCLA as an offensive lineman. I forgot to send them my letter of intent by the deadline, though. I was also training to be a professional horse-racing jockey.
3. What kind of car did you drive?
1977 Volkswagen Beetle ("Herbie") until he gave up the ghost in April. Then, it was a red/purple 1994 Dodge Shadow. As far as I know, that shit heap still survives in some trailer park. Good riddance.
4. It's Friday night, where were you?
Either a punk-rock show, a movie, a basketball game, the Bitchin' Kitchen, SunShine Cafe, Robey's dorm room, work, or more likely... home.
5. Were you a party animal?
Riiiiight.... I was good for the most part at this point. The "partying" I did was private, enjoying various smoked substances over on Main or Washington street while I skipped class.
7. Ever skip school?
I did the math on this. I averaged 1.3 class absences per school day my senior year. Thanks to Pop, I never got in trouble.
8. Ever smoke?
I smoked my share of enough by the time I'd graduated.
9. Were you a nerd?
I was more of a loser/reject/social-outcast back then. Today, I'm still a loser/reject/social-outcast who's become more of an academic nerd than I ever was in high school.
10. Did you get suspended/expelled?
I never officially got suspended or expelled. I got detention a few times for absences but got them wiped from my record once those absences were retroactively excused (thanks again, Pop!). The only other time I got detention was when I created a flyer for Kyle DeWees's presidential campaign explaining that his candidacy had merit because he supported child pornography, sex with furniture, intravenous drugs, etc. It was a joke that wouldn't've gone any further had Bill Breder not found it in the library trash and made like 100 of them, posting them around the school. I was, however, threated with suspension and expulsion on a regular basis for my writing in the school newspaper.
11. Can you sing the alma mater?
No.
12. Who was your favorite teacher?
Decaroli was pretty damn cool. Malone was alright too.
13. Favorite class?
Hrm... I only had a couple. Probably 20th Century U.S. History with Decaroli. Newspaper ruled.
14. What was your school's full name?
Burris Laboratory School.
15. School mascot?
The Owl, played by James.
16. Did you go to Prom?
Not my senior year. I ran a campaign to convince girls to go to prom with me, posting a couple hundred signs around the school. It failed to attract much positive attention, but I got my jollies from it. I can't blame anyone for not answering the ads. I did nearly have a couple set up by various people (incluing pre-junk Maria) but they all fell through. No bother, though. I had gone twice before and didn't really want to. I ended up working that night.
17. If you could go back and do it over, would you?
No. High school was hell. Until college, all school was hell. Being in a tiny-assed school as the social-outcast fat-kid with horrible social skills, that's miserable. Going to music camp all of those years and expanding my social horizons beyond that school was probably the only reason I didn't off myself before graduation. College was a welcome improvement because I could basically fade into anonymity at any time. And I did, so often that I don't speak to more than about three people from high school with any regularity whatsoever anymore. And I really have like two friends from all of college.
18. What do you remember most about graduation?
Getting the left side of my face sunburned. I ignored most of the rest of it (beyond what I'll outline in the next question, to which I responded with a hearty chuckle). In my right ear, I had a Reds game playing through an ear bud. They started the season shitty that year but turned it up in late June. They ended up tying the Mets for the wild card game... then losing the one-game playoff. I remember more about the Reds that year than my own high school graduation.
19. Favorite memory of your Senior Year?
Hrm... not many of them were great. One thing I always chuckle at is when the principle summoned me to the office to give me one final threat about the newspaper. I was the editor. She told me that if I printed anyting remotely critical about the administration in the senior issue that she would keep me from graduating. I told her that she couldn't legally do this, but she said she didn't care and threatened my father's job. So, in a joke that perhaps only I understood, I wrote the most glowing, overly sentimental (and exceptionally sarcastic) rememberence about my time at Burris. Anyone who was there during my time at Burris should have remembered that everything about the school made me miserable about 99.2 percent of the time... but that didn't matter. Everyone who read it loved it for the wrong reasons, and the principal quoted it at the graduation ceremonies. I still chuckle.
20. Were you ever posted up on the senior wall?
I'm not sure I understand the question. I don't think Burris had a senior wall. If it did, I certainly wasn't posted there. I would've been posted in the senior trashcan.
21. Did you have a job your senior year?
I worked at the McDonald's in Meijer part-time. Spending money was nice.
22. Who did you date?
I had a couple of long-distance things with people from camp at various points, but no one locally. I didn't know anyone outside of Burris, and that wasn't the best crop for someone like me.
23. What did your guidance couselor suggest you do after graduation?
He basically tried to force Ball State or Ivy Tech on me. He purposely held up a couple of my applications past the deadlines, which ruined a few opportunities. I did get into Michigan State, Valpo, Capital, and friggin' NYU's film school(!). Either way, I ended up going to Ball State as an eleventh hour decision because I didn't feel like going into extreme amounts of debt. That's funny to think about now, being so much in the red from school loans over seven years... Then again, without that path, I wouldn't have this destination.
24. Where did you go most for lunch?
King Gyros, where I could smoke cigarettes (the scattered weeks in high school that I was a smoker) and eat Greek food. Heaven! If I was broke, Haney's with my parents.
25. Have you gained weight since then?
About 20 net pounds from my graduating weight. At my weight, it's not too noticeable, right? Right?
26. Where did you go after Graduation?
Home. I didn't really have anyone to party or hang out with. Or do you mean in the bigger scale? I went to music camp for the summer, then Ball State for the fall.
27. Did you have a crush on anyone?
Anyone with tits.
28. What was your "label"?
General annoyance... though I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this question.
29. What were you voted?
I don't know... I never bought nor looked at my senior yearbook. Nor my junior or sophomore ones for that matter. Probably least likely to succeed, least likely to leave Muncie, most likely to be committed to a mental institution, etc.
30. Did you lose contact with anyone you wish you hadn't?
We all took different paths to different places. It's good to hear from certain people every now and again, but I can honestly say I haven't seen anyone I knew from high school face-to-face in well over a year. And that includes the people I would happily call friends.
31. What was your favorite band?
Senior year? Probably Weezer, Sublime, The Lillingtons and The Retreads.
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