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

[tyedie.livejournal.com]

Huh, I don't think I ever knew that you were actually from Pittsburgh. All your stories seem to be dated from the time you were at CMU, so I just assumed you came from someplace remote and got sucked into the gravity well like so many others.

[cellio]

Yeah, I'm from around here. Not technically native (I was three when my family moved to the Pittsburgh suburbs), but functionally so.

I suspect that tales of my time in high school would mostly be pretty boring; I was your typical smart kid who didn't yet know how to get along in groups that don't value that. (My school didn't value it structurally, and many of the individuals -- including some teachers -- didn't seem to value it personally.) By the time you're in college you're starting to learn how to adapt to different types of people and social situations; one of the problems with growing up in a small school district is that even if you do get these clues as a teenager (and I mostly didn't), these are the people you've mostly been with since kindergarten and memories are long. So I don't exactly have lots of fond memories of my large group of friends.

I'm not hostile to these people, just indifferent. I don't think having a common past is enough of a reason to expend effort, and there's no one I'm particularly looking to reconnect with. (Well, none of the students; there's one teacher I wouldn't mind catching up with, if I had any idea how to accomplish that.)