September 25, 2007

  • So I said that I wouldn't be lackadaisical on this, but times have been busy of late.  I haven't even kept all that up to date with facebook either.  Anyhow, as my 10 year HS reunion looms large, I thought I'd write a bit on that.  Last week I happen to be watching some high school type movies.  One of them was Big Liar on Campus (aka Full of it).  It's about a short, geeky, math wiz who never was popular.  This was his final year in HS and for once in his life he wanted to be popular....Now, I'm not going to break into song here with Wicked or anything, so don't ask. :)   He goes to see his guidance counselor and he says...if you want to be popular, you have to lie. 

    After he starts to lie for the entire day, he has an argument with is family about how difficult it was to be in his unpopular state, and slams the his bedroom door, cracking a mirror.  Uh-oh, you know what that means.  Sure enough, the next day, all his lies start coming true.  All his lies, both good ones and bad ones.  Well, there really isn't a good lie, but you know what I mean.  When he says my math skills are at a preschool level, that's bad.  When he says that I never miss a basketball shot, that's good.  You can guess at the other things that he wants to come true.

    Why am I babbling about this you ask?  Well, looking back at my HS years, I was never really the popular type.  Not that I am now, but I fit the stereotype of a nerd.  I mean, at homecoming...at least I think it was homecoming, there's a picture of my brother and I guarding the band trophy case in our "ivy league" outfits.  I was a band geek playing the clarinet of all instruments, and I was on the Scholastic Bowl team (aka quiz bowl).  I wore tinted....TINTED glasses my sophomore year that made me look like I was 40.  Gosh...How did I ever survive? 

    Well, I guess that's because I surrounded myself with friends who chose to ignore that type of stuff.  Then again, maybe they were all just being nice.  Anyhow, as the the reunion gets closer, I see, at least from the people on FB, that most have moved on with their lives.  Most are married.  Some have kids.  Most have jobs.  I don't think I know a single person that's still in school.  So it will be interesting conversation.  Most will actually have accomplished things in life, while me?  All I can say is that I'm still in school. 

    That PhD better be worth it all.