sabrinageek | Senior Year Meme thing..

YOUR SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL
1. What year was it?
Class of 1995

2. What were your three favorite bands?
I didn't discover most of my music tastes until college thanks to Dave

csixty4. However, in senior year, I was into classic rock -- Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, and 80's music.

3. What was your favorite outfit?
Jeans, t-shirts, button-ups over them, and my black trenchcoat. I could get away with wearing my trenchcoat in school then.

4. What was up with your hair?
nothing. It was short and dark blonde like usual. I didn't grow it out and have fun with dye until college.

5. Who were your best friends?
Scott Chandler, anyone in Choir or Drama

6. What did you do after school?
Went home and played on my Amiga computer online, played video games, watched movies and tv.

7. Where did you work?
I worked at Subway briefly.. but mostly no job.

8. Did you take the bus?
Until I got my license and a car; Then I drove.

9. Who did you have a crush on?
Annessa Ferris. She was in Choir and Drama with me. I was the Screech to her Lisa. I hope somewhere
she appreciates that I finally woke up and moved on. >)

10. Did you fight with your parents?
Not really -- I was straight-laced, and my parents trusted me, so I got to do pretty much what I wanted within reason -- after a night of being out all night for the Cast Party from our Spring Musical, my parents' concern was that I wasn't getting enough sleep. ;)

11. Did you smoke cigarettes?
Umm.. Asthma. No.

12. Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day or use your locker?
Yes. I carried a tote bag because by senior year, my locker was moved to the most abandoned, furthest away from any of my classes corner of the school on the third floor. I think I may have been to it three times at most.

13. Did you have a 'clique'?
If anything, I was a "choir and drama jock," although really I still didn't
have any sort of clique because I was still introverted and an outcast.
I was on the outside looking in.

14. Did you have "The Max" like Zach, Kelly and Slater?
I may be one of the only few I've seen who even understand this
reference because I was a huge "Saved by the Bell" freak.
No, we didn't have the "The Max." There was no after school hangout place --
we all just went home and did our own thing.

15. Admit it, were you popular?
Depends on how you define "popular." Pretty much everyone in my class knew me, and knew my name,
but that's more "infamy" than "popularity." I had friends, especially in the Choir and Drama groups..
but I don't consider myself popular. However, if I knew then what I know now, I could have made my
high school years a hell of a lot easier to deal with.

16. Who did you want to be just like?
I wanted to be like everyone else; I didn't want to be overweight. I wanted to fit in and not
have people make fun of me. At the same time, I also wanted to be me, and do my own thing,
and be my own person. Being myself eventually won out, and after high school, being myself
got me more friends than I know what to do with, and no one makes fun of me anymore. Even to
the point that my friend James once remarked in a conversation about my weight, "Scott, I don't
think of you as overweight.. I think of you as normal.. You're just Scott."

17. What did you want to be when you grew up?
An astronaut or a scientist or a computer programmer. The first two are likely impossible for me now considering I hated maths, and the latter I discovered later, that I don't really -like- programming.
I like computers, and other things that relate to them, but not actual 'programming.'

18. Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now?
Making $50-60k a year as a computer programmer with a nice apartment
in Chicago and a girlfriend.. That's what listening to College Recruiting
crap and job projections will get you -- in '95, computer programmers were the
hot job and entry salaries were minimum $35-40k. Of course, if you blow your
college education like I did, that'll put a crimp on your plans. However, it
all worked out for the best.

My life may not be what I imagined when I was 18, but I'm happy, I'm loved,
and I'm married to the most wonderful woman in the world. I have enough
food to eat, I'm not poor, and I have a home. I even have a kittie! (And
I -never- thought that would happen.) So, yeah, it was unexpected. I didn't
think I'd find love or get married. But even though it was unexpected,
things turned out okay. In fact, they turned out pretty damned good.