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[shipperx]

Gacked from rusty_halo

 

What year was it?
More interesting if I don't say, don't you think? (Okay, let me have my vanity!  Besides the year should be quite easily guessed based on the answers).

What were your three favorite bands?
Heart, Bon Jovi, U2

What was your favorite outfit?  Did I have one? Beats me.  I had this white Jessica McClintock suit/dress that had this lace camisole.  Going by my pictures from the year I favored these sleeveless deep-V necked sweaters from The Limited in bright colors like Pink (hey, I wore pink then!)  and/or teal with white (or pink or yellow or...) wife beaters under them. (I got called into the office once for not wearing a bra under all of this.  A (female) teacher had reported me (dude, she was my gym teacher) and the (female) vice-principal looked at me said "You can't tell.  I don't know what she was complaining about") and sent me back to class.  These sweaters were usually worn with jeans and white Keds or...Oh!  Boat Shoes.  Anyone remember boat shoes?  They had leather uppers but white soles?  And I tended to accessorize with faux-pearl studs and faux-pearl necklaces.

What was up with your hair?
Um... about the exact same as now.  Long, straight, blonde (albeit the "long" was "longer" then, probably only an couple of inches above my waist where now it's just a few inches below my shoulders.  Still straight and blonde though).

Who were your best friends?
My best friend was Susan (who I mentioned a couple of weeks ago in my LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/shipperx/122029.html#cutid1 ) but she was a year older and was away at college.  My best friends in school were Lee, Elliot, and Seth (yes, I hung out with guys...kinda effeminate guys, though only one was actually gay.)

What did you do after school?
Cheerleader practice, and I cried a lot.  I was kind of miserable senior year.

Where did you work?
I didn't, really.  I sometimes helped out at my mother's business.  She was an interior decorator.

Did you take the bus?
No.  I had a car.

Who did you have a crush on? 
Oh, jeeze!  Tom Welch. Damn, I had to struggle to pull out that name from my memory.  The only name that kept coming to mind was Bruce Welch, but I HATED Bruce Welch (and had since kindergarten) and never had any crush on him.  Tom was an entirely different (unrelated) Welch who moved to town during my senior year.  He was 6'-2" blond, and had glasses.  All my fetishes combined.)  I even dated him a few times but it sort of just fizzled out.  Never went anywhere.  Most of the year I ended up "dating" (for lack of a better word) Soren, Dannish foreign exchange student.  But it wasn't anything either.  Just someone to hang out with.

Did you fight with your parents?
With my mom, but nothing noteworthy.  Just typical teen drama and not particularly intense, interesting, or important.

Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?
Pierce Brosnan and Matthew Ashford (Jack, Days)

Did you smoke cigarettes?
Militant anti-smoker.

Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?
I lived in a hickville smalltown where not only did we know everyone, we knew their brothers, sisters, parents and grandparents.  Wasn't much to fear.  And the whole 'backpack' thing had yet to have its day then.

Did you have a 'clique'?
No and yeah.  Weird answer I know but on the one hand, no.  I had no real "clique" in the classic sense. Although I generally hung out with Lee, Elliot, and Seth (with Becky hanging with us sometimes).   Was that a clique?  I just can't see it as such.  We just... were.  However, to be objective we were allowed to sit at "the popular table"  so I can't pretend total outcast state.  It's more like... we were ALLOWED to sit at "the popular table."  We weren't the real power behind it.  And if you were running late, no one would SAVE us a seat (except each other).  On the other hand we weren't unwelcome there.  We could just sort of... float between table and groups.  I suppose technically Elliot, Seth, and Lee were "band geeks" (if you want to call it that).  I'm not sure how that would be categorized as "clique" really.

Did you have "The Max" like Zach Kelly and Slater?
First, Zach, Kelly, and Slater hadn't even been invented yet.  And I did mention I grew up in hickville.  We just sort of hung out at each other's houses.  No real place per se.

Admit it, were you popular?
Define "popular."  I certainly didn't <b>feel</b> popular.  I remember so many times feeling shut out and on the outer fringes.  However, I also still have the relatively clear image of when my mother's secretary's daughter got pregnant at 16.  She was crying to Julia (my mom's secretary) that she was an outsider and not popular like...well...me.  I remember being wholly stunned at being categorized as "popular."  I could be quickly and easily frozen out of the 'popular table' at lunch.  No one there would save me a seat.  I wasn't always invited to the parties.  I didn't have a real boyfriend, etc.  However, her comment made me aware that from her position, yeah, I probably did look popular.  I was a cheerleader.  I was the prom director.  I was Secretary of the Honor Society.  I was Treasurer of the Belle Letres (which for all intents and purposes was a high school sorority).  I was voted (along with Elliot) "Best School Spirit" in the Senior Who's Who (and the girl most likely to have Immelda Marcos's closet in the informal/joke version). I was even (mumble, mumble) the...er..."class beauty" (it was a stupid, contest okay.  ::Shudder::)  I "got" how from a lot of people's POV I was "popular" and in the "in-crowd."  They might not save me a place at the "popular table" at lunch...but I didn't feel out of place to walk up and look for a seat which I know wasn't the case for a lot of people.   Still I did not FEEL popular.  Not at all.  I always felt like I was on the outter fringes of the "popular" group.  A floater.  And not REALLY included.  I remember in Junior year, Susan dissing me by not inviting me to her party because I wasn't "popular" enough with the upper classmen.  I suffered through a lot (a lot, a LOT) of catty behavior from the real girl cliques in school (I wasn't in the older one that was a couple of years older than me and they ruled the school during their tenure.  They didn't torture me.  Were, in fact, relatively nice to me, but I wasn't actually "in" the group just sort of their occasional pet who was 2 years younger.  And the strong, strong girl clique two years YOUNGER than me --lying little backstabbing witches -- really worked to make my life hell as, when the older clique graduated, they staged their "takeover" as the "it" girls.  My class, weirdly enough, just didn't have many girls in my year.  And the girls we had just weren't cliquish girls.  We didn't have groups.  We just tended to have different groups of guys we'd hang with.  This younger clique (who encompassed the rest of the cheerleading squad) were in no way kind to me and were largely part of my senior year misery for various "school politics" reasons.)  So, that sort of explains my sorta-yes, sorta-no answer to this question.  From the outside looking in, I know I looked popular.  I know I was comparatively priveleged. I know I got a box full of ribbons, trophies, and awards that a lot of people never got to get.  But I was also frequently tormented by the "popular" girls, often not included in stuff because of it, and never exactly IN the in-crowd.  And standing in that no-man's land of outter fringes of the "in-crowd" I was well aware that it was a rather shallow, often vicious group that I told myself that I didn't really WANT to need and certainly wouldn't suck up to.  I quite purposely projected the image that I could take or leave them and what they thought or did didn't matter to me.  I was my own person without them. Which, I suppose, is part of the reason I was never really frozen out.  If I had tried to ingratiate myself to them, I would have be frozen out.  By acting like I didn't give a damn and be Miss Independent Girl, I managed to get a certain small degree of "cool."  But I was utterly and completely miserable, hating the school politics and the school (I remember Elliot and I being rather bitterly amused by our election as Mr. and Miss School Spirit since were both only-kinda-secretly HATED the school and the entire "in" crowd).  Such is my jaundiced view on adolescent "popularity"...and wow, my answer went WAY beyond meme length.

Who did you want to be just like?
Oh, geez, I have no idea.  Princess Leia?  Jennifer "Feisty Cub Reporter" Horton (Days)?  The heroine in Madeline Brent's novel "Merlin's Keep?"  Remington Steele's Laura Holt?  I don't know.  Me, I suppose.

What did you want to be when you grew up?
Secret wish -- romance novelist.  Reality based goal/wish/plan - architect

Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now?
Didn't have a location planned.  Thought I'd be an architect (and I am).  Also thought I'd probably be married (and I'm not and honestly have no plans on ever being married).