I spent a little time today glancing through Classmates.com. We’ve all done it, right? I don’t like the fact that they charge you to send emails and post on their message boards…I would think that with the amount of traffic that site gets, all they really need to do is make it free and charge tons for advertisements. Instead, they do both.

It’s funny, I pretty much remember just about everyone in my graduating class but I don’t consider myself as being one of the “popular people“. In fact, I’m not sure how many people even remember me.

It seems that in elementary school, everyone starts out as being friends…And then by the time Jr. High hits, everyone started to scatter into groups. Trying to fit in with others was never my big skill. When High School came, I recall people being a bit more relaxed and somewhat more mature in the way they treated others, but there was still that underlining tone of “hey which group do you belong to?”

So what group did I fit into? Maybe that question would be better answered by someone else. At the time, I thought I might have been somewhat “cool” but looking back at myself. I was in fact an “art geek” [I think the art geeks were the people who were creatively avoiding all the other groups and yet trying to get along with everyone all at the same time.] We did our school work(for the most part) and doodled on on our notebooks because most of the time our minds were somewhere else.

I talk about hockey now and tennis so one would think I grew up as a “jock”….Perhaps in another life I would have been while in school, but it just never really interested me back then.

I often wonder what sort of memories others have about high school and if it was an enjoyable time for them. I recall a teacher back then saying something to the extent of “these days you will remember as being the best days of your life”…And I do recall some fun times but that the teacher who said that must have been a cheerleader back in her day and was living life as her school super-model…High school for me was NOT much fun. Life didn’t start being fun for me until school ended.

I do have a great respect for teachers though…I think if I wasn’t doing what I’m doing now, teaching would be a job I’d like. It’s just a shame that teachers are so underpaid for what they do. Anyway…I’m really not sure what my point is with this entry other than I always wonder if people feel the same things I feel in regards to School and Teachers.

Oh…I’ll leave you all with a funny photo from a LONG time ago. Back in the day when I had my hair long enough to be pulled back in a ponytail and a nipple piercing. I’m pretty sure I had a black eye in this photo as well–I seem to recall being in fight a few days before. [I was such a bad ass LOL]

THANK GOD I DO NOT LOOK LIKE THIS ANYMORE!–I mean, I look like a skeleton! …And what’s up with all the crap around my neck??? It was a phase.
I guess we all have some old pictures of us that we look back at and think “OH MY GAWD!” I just wonder if 10 years from now, I’ll look at myself now and think the same thing.