theAudience said:

TA Baby, Legs always found nerds/ s sexy . I kind of figured you were that type when revealed your moonlighting gig.

RipHer2Shreds said:

For me it was The Velvet Rope - just 1 generation away That album helped me through HS.

Lonely is the shit.

And why I only bold album/song/artist titles when I reply to your posts is beyond me.
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VoicesCarry said:

Because I'm obsessive about grammatical structure. It's catchy. I wouldn't worry about it unless you start stressing out over comma usage.

AnckSuNamun said:

During High School, I was mostly involved with dance recitals and vocal show productions.

I was popular with the geeks.




revenge is mine

Err, I was in the magnet program, so I guess a lot of us were considered geeky, but it was pretty nebulous. There were three types of magnet kids: "popular," "extra geeky" and "everyday." I guess I was part of the "everyday" set. However, by junior and senior year, I became a full-fledged journalism nerd and hung out in the newspaper & student gov't rooms during lunch period.

VoicesCarry said:

Oh g*d, let me not get started on The Velvet Rope. That was my SOUNDTRACK during high school. I swear I played that album almost everyday for about 2 years straight. Wore out 2 copies. And wrote about it in a college admissions essay.

I used to keep my Sankofa necklace on the outside of my backpack like a magic orb. Even drew the Sankofa symbol inside my locker and on every textbook cover. I even quoted Janet in my senior yearbook Will. I was known as *the Janet fan* at my H.S. "JANFAN4L" is nothing new.

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VoicesCarry said:

Agreed. My college years were the best in my life!

Geeky, geek geek. Nerd boy. I'm still seen the same way in college. College students are really just old high schoolers. Nothing's changed.

doctamario said:

That's why 5 year high school reunions are a joke. The 10 year is more interesting.

I was labeled as a "freak" I was more popular OUTSIDE of school then in.

I wasnt popular, i wasnt a geek. I had lotsa friendz and we were all very quirkyz. Dat i can say for sure- we were all quirky and crazy and enjoyed taking da piss out of everything and anything we possibly couldz. We just laughed a whole lot. I got picked on by some galz. Either they'd make snide commentz cause of my hair- it alwayz alwayz was done up nice even though i was just at school- but i was pedantic like dat It was very unlike me 2 have a hair out of place Plus my accent. It was different and they often mocked me for my less-Aussie pronunciationz. But my friendz loved me for all those thingz and i had no problem with it. I just didnt like bein picked on. It got 2 a point where all my friendz were put 2gether in one class altogether- i guess in dat way we were kinda geek-ish- but in a very un-stereotypical way. Geek-like as in- we were genuinely all unique personalitiez who were also actually nice. And God forbid you are nice girl at an all-girlz private school. EEK!!

Well high school started a little rough for me.....I was a skinny kid...popular in Junior high...and when I got to high school...I was a big fat ZERO! That lasted for a few years...but towards the end of my junior year things picked up considerably...and my senior year I was actually pretty popular...

neither i couldnt be bothered with most people they thought i was wierd i didnt care

JANFAN4L said:

Me TOO! I kept a Velvet Rope keychain on my bookbag, and was "The Janet Jackson Fan"! I also quoted her in the yearbook, had her pictres in my locker, and dressed up like her for Halloween for two years and wore the costume to school. In English class junior year, we had to write a thesis paper and I wrote mine on Janet and how her music has helped me.

I was the "brut", the "pot head" and the "freak"

The pot head because I discovered where my brothers secret stash was.

The brut because my brother always beat me up so I took it out on other boys.

And the freak cuz I dyed my hair different colors every week, wore cords, a biker jacket and had a shaved head.

Oh those were the days!

theVelvetRoper said:

Hehe. That's cool*! I got a similar academic tidbit. I tried to incorporate Janet in my curriculum the best I could. I remember doing a presentation on her in my English class, so I stood up in the front of the classroom with index cards talking about "Jam & Lewis and Minneapolis."

It's so funny. I remember kids would report back to me if they saw Janet on TV. "OMG, Jan, did you see that new 'Go Deep' video on TRL?" "What's she working on?"

guess i was both.. u know?... i was popular and a geek i was on the basketball team and always in the music room.. so..

Neither really.

I was a theater geek! My acting teacher was a huge Prince fan too! One day I went in the theater of our school early and she was there working on something and listeing to Lovesexy. I was like Omg you like Prince? and she was like I LOVE PRINCE..and we talked expecialy how interesting his lyrics were.

But yeah I loved being in theater...we had our own little crew and had fun together...I always thought the popular kids were boring and lame actualy and weren't creative at all!

Popular for the most part. I found ways to have the coolest parties, barbecues and talent shows on campus at lunch time and the whole school loved it. The way my school worked was that the sophomores and freshman coordinated the senior activities so that they could be involved. They were not allowed to attend senior functions so they wanted to make it up to them. Somehow the politically correct crowd took over the senior activities and screwed them up. Our class superlatives consisted of Most community service, Most respected, Most politically active and some other mess. The only things that was normal was the most athletic, class clown and we barely got best smile. They kicked Best body because it was too sexist or some shit. These kids were out of their minds. I think we beat up some of them for messing up our activities. They attempted to destroy our prom and change it to a memorial service for this kid that committed suicide that no one knew. I was sad for the kid but come on, a memorial service prom? That was the last straw. I took over the committee my junior year on a blind sided motion and won the love of the campus. I was such a slick ass but never got in trouble. Luckily, the adminstration loved me. Wow the memories! Good one!