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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Andy on May 13, 2007, 10:02:54 AM
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mine is next weekend. I'm thinking about skipping.
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My 0 year reunion is coming up.
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My 0 year reunion is coming up.
you suck. I can't believe how old I'm getting.
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My 10 year came and went more than a couple years ago. I didn't have much interest in those folks then and I sure don't now. I have kept in touch with the 2 or 3 people I gave a damn about and I have no interest in catching up with the rest. It isn't animosity but a sense of something like: hell I don't have time to hang out with the people I really like, why would I waste money and time to hang out with people I am utterly neutral toward.
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you suck. I can't believe how old I'm getting.
I concur. I just got an invitation to my thirtieth (college) reunion.
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I (finally) graduated yesterday.
(http://www.bobknightphoto.com/Thumbnails/26204281/01001/0026.jpg)
Donna Shalala makes me look tall.
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I (finally) graduated yesterday.
(http://www.bobknightphoto.com/Thumbnails/26204281/01001/0026.jpg)
Donna Shalala makes me look tall.
Congratulations! Donna Shalala makes everyone look tall.
Who was your commencement speaker? I had George Will.
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César Pelli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Pelli).
Like him/hate the performing arts ctr.
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Oh god, the PDC is so hideous.
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I like seeing the little tape mark on the floor. She is BOXED IN, she can't excape. She's reaching for help, did you pull her out?
I can't wait for when I graduate. I'm moving to Korea afterward. Make some money.
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Andy: Don't listen to the bitter. You should go - I don't know anyone who went who regretted it. Of those who didn't go, some regretted it later and some didn't.
I found it very interesting. People who had changed tremendously, and people who hadn't. Women (and men) who were uninteresting in high school who were now very self-assured and attractive. Women (and men) who were the shit in high school but now were, errr, shit for real.
It's like people watching, but throw in the element that these are people from your town's past.
One chica got really trashed and wanted to hook up with everyone there. I wouldn't recommend this option. Nor would I recommend getting trashed at all on this occasion - people were too likely to try to "make up for things" that only they remembered, and that's always a mistake.
The other trap - running into people you really were friends with back then, hitting it off again, and then thinking you might hang out with them again after the reunion. Not going to happen. A reunion is a funny little break from your real life. It's no more than that.
NOTE: This applies to high school reunions ONLY. My college class was 4200 people - I have no desire to go back and try to pick out the 15 people I still remember, if they are there at all.
Hope that helps.
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I had a buddy in high school and we would play music together after school all the time. Our 10 year high school reunion was last year, but we missed it. We both live in L.A., but we were in the Parsippany High School Class of '96 (North Jersey forever!). Anyway, we got our two person band back together to celebrate the occasion and to make soundtrack music for the reunion weekend that never happened. Then, of course, we posted them on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dodonger
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Buffcoat = correct.
High school reunion = yes. Fun!
College reunion = no. Confusing!
JS
Andy: Don't listen to the bitter. You should go - I don't know anyone who went who regretted it. Of those who didn't go, some regretted it later and some didn't.
I found it very interesting. People who had changed tremendously, and people who hadn't. Women (and men) who were uninteresting in high school who were now very self-assured and attractive. Women (and men) who were the shit in high school but now were, errr, shit for real.
It's like people watching, but throw in the element that these are people from your town's past.
One chica got really trashed and wanted to hook up with everyone there. I wouldn't recommend this option. Nor would I recommend getting trashed at all on this occasion - people were too likely to try to "make up for things" that only they remembered, and that's always a mistake.
The other trap - running into people you really were friends with back then, hitting it off again, and then thinking you might hang out with them again after the reunion. Not going to happen. A reunion is a funny little break from your real life. It's no more than that.
NOTE: This applies to high school reunions ONLY. My college class was 4200 people - I have no desire to go back and try to pick out the 15 people I still remember, if they are there at all.
Hope that helps.
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mine is supposed to be this year and i'm excited to go, but the girl organizing it is being a total martyr. despite many offers to help, she's taking on all the responsibility herself and not sharing any info... like, for instance the DATE of the reunion. she won't even answer direct questions about it -- just says she's sending out packets of info.
did anyone else take issue with the fact that their high school class president will be the only person organizing reunions for the rest of their lives? maybe i'm just unnecessarily bitchy but i'd hate to see this chick organizing this thing and being all weepy about having to do it herself for our 20, 30, etc.
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A committee of 8 organized mine, not including the class president, who is a good guy but, um, unreliable.
All of them said they weren't going to do it again for the 20th, so that may never happen, but the 10th was great.
Another lesson from the reunion: people with one bad character flaw sometimes reform - but sometimes they organize their ENTIRE LIVES around that one bad character flaw, sort of becoming life-sized shrines to their own awfulness.
Erika, it sort of sounds like your organizer has built such a shrine.
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Our class president literally outsourced it to some professional high school reunion corporation that spelled everyone's name wrong and the reunion ended up costing like 90 dollars to attend (is that normal? Maybe it is...) and so a bunch of people who thought that was bullshit actually set up an alternate reunion which actually seemed more successful through that fail-proof people-connector myspace. don't ask me what it all means...
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Supposedly she's going to organize committees to help with it. That's what the "packets" are about. At this point I just want to know when the thing is. My busy busy schedule is filling up quickly 8)
Whatever. She's an MD. I've worked with doctors for the past 7 years and found that many of them love to be martyrs and are a little disconnected from reality and other humans.
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I've been a reunion avoider my whole life but I finally broke down and went to my 5th year law school reunion because a friend was having his wedding "celebration" nearby (he got married overseas).
I'm still not sure if it was worth it. It was fun to see my friends who showed up but it was a whole lot of not fun to meet people I hadn't kept in touch with for a reason (and to answer the same damn "whatcha been doing" questions over and over). So it was basically a draw.
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Whatever. She's an MD. I've worked with doctors for the past 7 years and found that many of them love to be martyrs and are a little disconnected from reality and other humans.
That's what I learned watching Gray's Anatomy, which is awful by the way. Ugh.
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I went to my 10-year reunion (Rogers High School, Class of '89, Newport, RI). The scary thing for me is that it doesn't seem that long ago yet in two years I'll be making a decision about whether I should go to my 20th.
I don't regret going to the 10-year. It was a small turnout (way less than 100 people, and the class numbered a few hundred originally) but there were a few people I'd lost touch with with whom I was glad to reconnect. Nobody did anything embarrassing. The worst thing was that the deejay sucked (they should have gotten someone who would play at least some of the stuff that was popular between '85 and '89; there at least should have been some frickin' INXS...). But that probably had to do with the classmate who organized it.
My friend Dave was the class president, and about a year or so before the reunion was slated to happen -- and he had been kicking around a few ideas with people -- this woman in our class (not even a class officer) took it upon herself to set up one of those godawful Classmates.com pages and basically pulled a hilarious/sad coup and took the planning over without his consent. His reaction? "Well that's weird. But f*ck, it..." Gooooo, Rogers!
So she ran with it. And it was pretty lame, at least venue-wise. She rented a hall at a golf course in Portsmouth, which, while still part of the island, is a good two towns over from our hometown, and nothing close to walking distance (Newport, on the other hand, has plenty of venues in walking proximity to neighborhoods, and a lot of the class who had stayed in the city were playing host to the since-moved-out-of-towners). See, our class was (and, it turned out, remained) chock full of drunks and drug addicts; we were the age group that was laughing when Nancy Reagan launched the Just Say No campaign -- great, let's cram the state roads with the class of 89 in party-nostalgia mode! Somehow, nobody got arrested, hurt, or killed.
There were several of my friends who opted out, and I think they just didn't think they were at a point where they wanted to have to explain what they were doing with their lives. But the vast majority of people who did show up were sort of in the same boat. Not a lot of doctors or lawyers at all; if there were any, they probably figured they were too good for it. So it was fun, overall. And I think the retrospection that it causes can be healthy. The oddness of it. Which was a lot of us ended up talking about.
The open bar was a nice touch, too.
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Whatever. She's an MD. I've worked with doctors for the past 7 years and found that many of them love to be martyrs and are a little disconnected from reality and other humans.
That's what I learned from watching Lost. Which is awesome by the way. Yay.