high-school reunion

[cellio]

It's not my imagination; I really am from a different planet than those folks.

Today's mail brought a pitch for a high-school reunion (round-number year, so presumably special). Now even if I wanted to go this one starts out with two fatal flaws (a Friday night, and Thanksgiving weekend), but... no, let me just share the list of highlights for the weekend:

Friday:
- WPIAL high-school football finals
- dinner with cash bar

Saturday:
- family get-together at "FunFest" (whatever that is)
- flag football game (playing, not watching)
- Pitt football game
- "hanging out for the evening at a local establishment...suggestions welcome"

Sunday:
- Steeler party

No, I really don't think so!

Comments

[jhayman.livejournal.com]

Interesting isn't it?

This year is/was my 20 year reunion from my nursing degree. I looked at the Grad weekend activities and it was clear that unless you're an athlete or in BUSINESS, you don't rate. This struck me as really odd from a university with the most innovative Medical/Nursing program in the world. I told them that I'd give it a miss and why. I think that's the part that's important, because otherwise the people those activities appeal to attend and those choices are reinforced.

[cellio]

That sounds awfully lame given the school, yes!

I told them that I'd give it a miss and why. I think that's the part that's important, because otherwise the people those activities appeal to attend and those choices are reinforced.

Well, they could also get it from numbers. And if the vast majority of my classmates think this sort of thing is spiffy, they're not going to listen to me anyway. This isn't the first reunion, so I'm guessing that past attendance has guided them.

Perhaps a better person would try to explain instead of just ignoring them like I'm doing. Maybe I'm too lazy. :-)