tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14368873.post115033362895286831..comments2022-11-09T09:51:21.193-05:00Comments on Meanderings and Musings: 19 years ... and one to gonettiemachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00835731271577804010noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14368873.post-1150847474235907872006-06-20T19:51:00.000-04:002006-06-20T19:51:00.000-04:00Your friends' observations about reunions seems ve...Your friends' observations about reunions seems very spot-on. Lordy, I remember my 5th reunion in 1988 ... I was living 70 miles away in Pine Bluff, and at the time was doing what in retrospect was an embarrassing morning drive show. But that weekend I felt like Hot-Ta-Trot Super Jock (if only I knew what would happen less than a month later at that station...)<BR/><BR/>But I went mainly for one big reason: REM and U2 were hit artists by 1988, and I was a fan back in '82-'83 when these people made fun of my "quirky" tastes in music. Those groups with the funny names. I said they'd be big someday. They laughed. But my laugh was last, and yyyyyeah I rubbed it in a bit. >:-D<BR/><BR/>By #25 (which is staring me in the face -- try 2008; egad!!!!), most of us have lost gobs of hair, are probably on the way to eating regular meals at buffet restaurants and cafeterias ... but especially are our own people. And some of us look at versions of ourselves in the mirror some 100 pounds more than when we traipsed our high school's campus. <BR/><BR/>The big question for my 25th: which one? Hot Springs, Ark. (where I moved while in 11th grade), or Cape Girardeau, Mo. (grades 8-11)? <BR/><BR/>Right now I'm leaning very heavily toward <I>Missou-ruh</I> ... assuming, of course, I go. Our attitudes were very similiar regarding the high schools we graduated from. <BR/><BR/>The biggest question of all is "am I comfortable in my own skin"? I don't know, except to say I believe I'm closer to that ideal than I was, say, 10 years ago. <BR/><BR/>--Talmadge "Class of '83" GleckTalmadgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02398182312942014436noreply@blogger.com