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

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I got an e-mail today about the events planned for the 10th reunion of my grad school class, and my feelings were similar.

Highlights:

- wine and cheese reception on Friday evening
- dinner with classmates after reception
- family picnic at National Zoo on Saturday around midday
- drinks on Saturday evening

It felt pretty good to RSVP "no", not least since all this quote-unquote fun is going to be taking place over the first days of Sukkos.

[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.

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

My 20th High School Reunion involves a "scavenger hunt around Harvard [hometown], to show our kids where we grew up." Screw that. I don't have kids, and if I did, I like to think they'd find that lame.

Been there, done that, got the commemorative glassware

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

My 20th anniversary high-school reunion, five years ago, caused similar feelings in me, but I was pleasantly surprised to see how much some of those I remembered as teens had matured since then.

[magid.livejournal.com]

My college reunions tend to be of the not-going-to-happen variety (on a different axis than yours, but still not interesting enough to make the bother worthwhile), but my last high school reunion was great, just a big gathering the Saturday night of Thanksgiving weekend. It would've been even better had they not gotten a band (everyone went to the other room to be able to hear each other), but it still worked.

Is high school so important that people will spend a whole weekend on reunion?

[ariannawyn.livejournal.com]

Assuming this is Pgh, Funfest is a glorified bowling alley / laser tag place in Harmarville. I go bowling there with the kids sometimes, though it's outrageously expensive and the .

Yes, they live on a different planet. That's why you're in the SCA. :-)

[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.

[jducoeur]

Yaas. I went to one high-school reunion (pretty early, something like the third year out), and realized that I had already lost all commonality with most of these folks. Even the fellow geeks were from a different reality than me. So I've wound up not worrying about it much: there are a few people I miss, but I'm not exactly lacking in social life these days...