Caught In The Whirlwind
Posts tagged high school
Uneven Arms
Jun 29th 2007
I went with my parents last night to go pick up my tux for my sister's wedding on Saturday. It seems that one of my arms is longer than the other one, so they had to take the coat into the back and alter it slightly. I'm a freak.
While I was leaving I bumped into one of my friends from High School (and middle school too actually), Joe. I didn't have a heck of a lot of time to talk since we were trying to get to dinner, but I'll be seeing him tonight and Saturday too considering he's in the wedding as well.
Tonight is the rehearsal, followed by pizza at the groom's parents house and then the wedding is on Saturday.
QotD: Happy President’s Day!
Feb 19th 2007
Ever run for office? (School, club, organization, politics, etc.) Did you get elected?
Sort of…
When I was in high school, for some reason I ended up with the nickname of Bob. Don’t ask me why…I’m still not sure how it started, but it stuck. So one day, during the elections for student council, a grassroots campaign got started (also not my idea). “Bob for president!” They had posters up and everything. It was annoying at the time, but as it went on I just went with it. From what I hear I got a bunch of write in votes.
Actually, that whole thing played a large role in my “opening up”, I suppose would be a good term for it. After that I had a lot more friends. Before, I had a problem with figuring out if people were joking around or trying to be hurtful. After that whole experience, I think I figured out how to fit in a little more with my classmates. Hmm, that didn’t come out very coherently, but it’s not really that easy for me to put into words either.
I think I mentioned the transformation previously. I’ll have to see if I can dig it out.
UPDATE: Ah hah! Here it is.
QotD: Take Me Back
Jan 27th 2007
If you were told you could relive a moment in your life, which would you choose?
Submitted by Slight Diffusion.
At this point, it would probably be my High School graduation day in 2001. As much as I was bummed about parting from some of my friends and the people I knew (although, as it turns out, I’d see most of them at the community college I did my first two years of college at), graduation brought me a great feeling of accomplishment. Not just in the academic sense, although that was part of it as well, but also a feeling of accomplishment in developing as an individual.
Prior to high school, I was that kid that everybody made fun of. I had some rough times, ended up in the principal’s office more than I’d like to admit, as well as suspended from school for 5 days after a situation got out of hand (That might be a story for another day.) But going through my 4 years in high school, I really developed as an individual. I learned not to let stuff bother me as much, I learned that some of the kids in the more popular circles actually wanted to hang out with me (although I was never really “in” with them as much as some of their other friends). I got interested in sports for the first time. I did volunteer work with the Special Olympics in the area which was an extremely rewarding experience. I could really go on like this all day
I basically developed into the person I am today, all of which came into focus in the days leading up to graduation. At the time it felt like I was leaving one phase in live and moving on to something better. Which was sorta true, in a way, and sorta not true at the same time. Moving on, yes, but it’s scary out here in the adult world.
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