ThreadCula said:

I'm glad you didn't do the presentation either, I would have felt funny walking onstage by myself too. I can't believe that some people think that a person who studies a lot can't dance. It baffles me as to where people get their ideas from.
[Edited 4/19/06 20:00pm]

psychodelicide said:

What? I probably would have beat down only one to make my point to them!

ShySlantedEye1 said:

I'm giggling what you wrote in your post about threatening bodily harm on all of the committee by all of the members of your quasi-greek club. But I wouldn't want to get beat down either, truth be told.

psychodelicide said:

yeh it did
i mean they were proud for that day and everything, and they were happy about the amount of awards..

..but it wasn't in science or math...it was all art
they just keep wishing i became a nurse and not an artist...

psychodelicide said:

These kids weren't in any clubs, sports, or anything else. If we were picking teams none of them would have landed on anyone's squad. I have yet to figure out how they got on the student board. Not even in group shots in the year book. Fuck, I think they just worked in the office. Bunch of control freaks! Majority rules damn it! At least in my book! Now that I think about it I should have got one of them!

SammiJ said:

Damn! Follow your heart, and you will never go wrong, I always say. If art is what you enjoy, then that's what you should study. You probably would not have been happy being a nurse, especially if that's not what you want to do.

ShySlantedEye1 said:

psychodelicide said:

it's true
sometimes i feel they'd be happier if i was in nursing, but failing
rather than being in art, and passing

SammiJ said:

That's a messed up way for your family to be thinking. They should be happy and supportive of your decision to follow your dreams.

psychodelicide said:

i wish!
they're happy im in university, but they dont think i have a future in art
they're more concerned with if i'll make money when im out
nursing is a big thing here it's just not my thing
and i feel the resentment - nothing's said but i feel it...



sorry 2 jack your thread tho hun

I was popular with all the ugly bitches.


But that's another thread.

Illustrator said:

lets hear it

Illustrator said:

psychodelicide said:

Absolutely. I did get a little nostalgic about 6+ months ago because 2005 would have been my 20th reunion, so I looked up my highschool on the internet. Turns out it is really completely different than when I went there. After I graduated they renovated the school. Then the school was flooded out when downtown Grand Forks, ND flooded. Then they changed the mascot and all from "The Chieftains" to "The Cavaliers" or something like that. Kinda made me want to go back...for a minute...then it passed.

charlottegelin said:

I posted it already on the " Y do men cheat with ugly bitches" thread.

charlottegelin said:

You too!

Where I went to school none of that shit mattered. Everyone knew everyone.

ShySlantedEye1 said:

HobbesLeCute said:

High school

fun but ridiculously boring

Elementary school: The most popular. Brainiac and class valecdictorian. High school: total introvert and loner. Had five friends all four years. Did the ROTC thing, too.

Geek then, geek now.

Romera said:

I was the problem child in the schoolyard

charlottegelin said:

Still love ya, though! Your sick minded, but sweet!

twister6 said:

I swear you remind me of someone I miss.

ShySlantedEye1 said:

sick minded!
Nah, I just wanted to hear how Illustrator was going to get out of that one ha ha

It's odd... The popular kids felt me, but the kids who weren't popular didn't know that, so I wasn't popular with them. (Lesson: I guess I had poor downmarket advertising.)

Seriously, though, the high school social hierarchy is a sick, sadomasochistic mess. I'm sooooo glad I'm out.

I just blended in. I wasn't popular but i wasn't a nerd either.

Lammastide said:

I hated high school and it's worse now for my own child. Two more months and he's out!!!

I wasn't- i went to an all girlz school where most girlz mocked me for my accent or if i chose a big word they hadn't heard before, they'd make fun of that too. I went to choir, school production, school magazine wrote poetry- only my friendz loved me! And that was just fine- minus the mocking from the other girlz ofcourse Having good friendz would alwayz override the negativity though!

Romera said:

Two months to go! GOD BLESS!!!

It's funny. I skipped my 10-year reunion, and went to my wife's instead. Unlike my own school, it turns out almost everyone at her school knew me! I was totally confused!

I think we most impress upon people when we don't even know it... and when we don't try. Anymore, I don't try to be popular. I just live.
[Edited 4/20/06 7:17am]

My school was *super* small (29 people in my graduating class) so my answer to this is complicated...

I was in every extra-cirricular activity my HS offered: basketball, volleyball, softball, cross country & track, Speech & Drama Club, Spring Play, band, etc. and was the salutatorian of my class. (It was cool to get good grades at my school, be in theater & play every sport.) I was nominated for Homecoming Queen, but lost thankfully (long story); so by most accounts, I guess I would have been considered popular.

However, my *closest* girl friends were huge BITCHES and I didn't really like them most of the time, but if I wasn't friends with them they would have made my life hell. (Think the movie "Heathers" w/o the murders. ) In addition, I was also really into art, so I knew a lot of the "weird, bad ass" art kids who smoked during lunch, etc...

Add to that the fact that one of my flaws is that I'm very stubborn & hate being told what to do and I got in A TON of trouble with the teachers. I was kicked out of class/suspended a lot for talking back, so I didn't get inducted into the National Honor Society. I was a HUGE bitch to a lot of underclassmen, I think they were scared of me, which makes me feel bad/sad now. Even though from the outside it seemed like I was popular, I never really felt like I fit in anywhere...

So far I've skipped all my reunions--it's complicated because I feel bad about the way I acted towards some people then, and my life now is so different from my former classmates that we don't have anything in common.