I'm meming too.

So much for my grandiose plans. They sort of fizzled.

In the meantime (memetime?) I'll do the high school meme that Steph did today.

1. Did you date someone from your school senior year?
No. I didn't have even one date my senior year. In fact, I really didn't have any dates at all during high school. I had a boyfriend who was in the Air Force, starting as a freshman and going halfway through senior year, but there was never any calling-up-on-the-phone "Are you busy Friday night?" sort of dates. Oh, yeah. There was one of those dates, early in my freshman year. It was an older guy (18!) from our church. That's the only real date I had until I was 30, and Jim called me up to ask me out to dinner.

2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
No.

3. Did you car pool to school?
I rode the bus. Both high schools were too far to walk and nobody had their own cars.

4. What kind of car did you drive?
Didn't have one until after high school. I got a 1968 VW Beetle -- Wooflie -- when I was in community college.

5. What kind of car do you have now?
Jim and I share a '95 Ford Aspire. Cute little thing.

6. It's Friday night... where were you (in high school)?
Usually at home. When my boyfriend was around, sometimes we would go out, but more often we'd just be home.

7. It is Friday night... where are you (now)?
At home.

8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
My senior year I had a steady baby-sitting job where I was the one at home when two little girls came home from school.

9. What kind of job do you do now?
I'm a professional slacker.

10. Were you a party animal?
No.

11. Were you considered a flirt?
No.

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Not in high school. I played the flute in my elementary school band.

13. Were you a nerd?
Not really. I was probably thought of as "a brain," if I was thought of at all. I don't think very many people even knew I existed.

14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
Nope. One detention in freshman year for something I don't remember. It seems that it was something that I didn't have any control over, but nevertheless was a breach of the rules so I had to be punished.

15. Can you sing the fight song?
I can sing both the fight song and the Alma Mater from the first high school. We had to go to Friday afternoon pep rallies and I have a very good memory for songs.

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)?
It's really hard to say. Probably my favorites were Mr. Jolosky (junior year German) and Mr. Basansky (senior year Russian). I don't think I thought enough of any of my teachers during my freshman or sophomore years to call any of them favorites. The best I could hope for was to have a teacher who wasn't an idiot.

17. Where did you sit during lunch?
Outside always. I hated being in the cafeteria, even when it was cold and rainy. I really don't remember freshman or sophomore year enough to be able to say, except that I know it wasn't inside. Junior year I remember being outside on the picnic tables with a bunch of people. Senior year I only went to four classes a day and left at lunch time. So lunch was at home or in the car while my mom was driving me to my college classes.

18. What was your school's full name?
Freshman-Junior: Atwater High School
Senior Year: Adolfo Camarillo High School

19. When did you graduate?
1969.

20. What was your school mascot?
Atwater: A falcon
Camarillo: A scorpion

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
If I could have a bit of insight so that I could make different choices, in a heartbeat. If it would just to relive the misery, no thanks.

22. Did you have fun at Prom?
No proms. The only high school dance sort of thing I went to was either freshman or sophomore year. Some semi-formal event that I got my boyfriend to take me to. It was okay. I got a nice dress to wear.

23. Do you still talk to your prom date?
No proms.

24. Who was your best friend?
Kathy Seeley in Atwater, but I hardly spent time with her after getting the boyfriend. At school in Atwater, I spent time with Grace and Richard. Then I moved and my friend was Kaye. (Steph)

25. What did you want to be when you grew up?
I was thinking about either a psychologist or a diplomat.

26. Any regrets?
Oh, yeah. Lots and lots.

27. Biggest fashion mistake?
Probably the flannel paisley/flowered Nehru jacket/bell-bottomed pants suit that my mother made for me from fabric sent by my boyfriend who was in Turkey. I still have it. (When she was in high school, I suggested that Nicki wear it for Halloween, as a hippie. She wouldn't even consider it.) Oh, and the culotte jumpsuit-y sort of thing that meant I had to get completely undressed in order to go to the loo. I wore it once.

28. Favorite fashion trend?
I liked bell bottoms. Still do. All the British mod stuff and the hippie stuff was nice.

29. Are you going to your next reunion?
I went to the twentieth, but I won't go again. It was interesting to see that the ones of us who had the most fun had been the outcasts in high school. The "soashes" (maybe that will get across the long "o" sound) and cheerleaders just sat around gossiping. The people I hung out with were people I knew from elementary school, though.

30. Who did you have a secret crush on?
Nobody. I think there may have been some crushes on me, but there wasn't anybody I was interested in who was in high school.

31. Did you go on spring break?
We had a week off school before Easter, but it was always just at home. The only one I remember is the one my senior year that was spent with Steph and Cher, with the three of us going back and forth between Steph's house and mine. Two whole blocks! (Steph, remember transcribing the words to "Atlantis"?)