i remember high school..vaguely..well.
what i remember most was getting high and getting by while making friends and hopefully the honour roll. Math class was important to me for absolutely no other reason than a boy. he didn't sit close to me or anything but he always knew the answers and when to look my way. Science senior year was first period. my ass would fly in by 8:48A usually laughing and making everything seem experimental. today we're going to talk about natural distinction. i don't even think that was a talking point but it seems good enough for my memory for now.
today's lesson is brought to you by the letters: H
and I
you can find them in the alphabet consecutively after G.
my science teacher lit a cigarette during a lesson one morning after asking one of us kids.
kids right? the kind that wake up in the morning and smoke a bowl in the bathroom before heading off to homeroom. the kind that study high take the test high and get high marks. the kids who didn't grow up until they grew out of their watered down, catholicisism - instilled in them since Pre-K. yeah those kids have got to have a cigarette on them. and one did.
one by one we filed down hallways cursing those who stopped dead in front of us to hug their friends or worse - make out with their significant others at the time.
at the time because you know it's the time of experimenting and bullshit. (pardon my french)
you're way too young to have a relationship in high school. high school sweethearts are for the hopelessly devoted and the lovers of Rom-Com. but if you're currently married to your high school sweetheart and it has been over 25 years then you can stop here and i apologize.
must have been love at first sight much like me and English class. it wasn't the essays or the multiple choice that got me by it was my teacher. she was smart and more than anything she was understanding that being a student in high school is one of the most annoying things we have to be. she let you babysit her kids she was that cool - well not you, but me - i did. a few times. teachers like her make you appreciate the future and make you want the best outcomes for your own hard work. don't you think it would be easier to be a student in high school if all of your teachers allowed you to watch their kids?
if you want to share your high school story, please do. except social studies. i left that shit out for a reason.
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9.12.13
a moment of friendship for a lifetime.
can you remember the last time you watched a movie, listened to a song, heard something; really heard something, that someone was telling you - and thought, when have i ever felt like this before?
the last time this happened to me was last night and i was sitting in a 24-hour Vietnamese restaurant in Vancouver. i was eating soup - you know the kind, and i was telling someone very close to me about my weekend. now when i say very close i mean close like family and we were sitting across the table from each other. my weekend was spent in Kelowna with who i now realize is my longest-known friend from childhood with whom i still keep in contact. we had a relaxing weekend of couch hopping-joint passing-guitar strumming. we didn't do a whole lot of anything but we did the most important thing which was catching up on two years prior. lucky for us there was no arguing about where to go; what to do; how to think. lucky for us, our friendship proved that time and distance means nothing compared to Disney memories and adolescent laughs. when have you felt like this before? people they enter our lives at such random times that we almost try and pressure ourselves into creating a relationship with them even if we know far too little yet. it's the red hair or the neck tattoo or the way they turned to look at you; seconds after your head just said, hello cutie, you've got to wonder. we want relationships. people need people they always will. so people seek out relationships wherever they go in hopes of discovering a magical passage to friendship. if you're out there searching, please let me know where you end up.
the last time this happened to me was last night and i was sitting in a 24-hour Vietnamese restaurant in Vancouver. i was eating soup - you know the kind, and i was telling someone very close to me about my weekend. now when i say very close i mean close like family and we were sitting across the table from each other. my weekend was spent in Kelowna with who i now realize is my longest-known friend from childhood with whom i still keep in contact. we had a relaxing weekend of couch hopping-joint passing-guitar strumming. we didn't do a whole lot of anything but we did the most important thing which was catching up on two years prior. lucky for us there was no arguing about where to go; what to do; how to think. lucky for us, our friendship proved that time and distance means nothing compared to Disney memories and adolescent laughs. when have you felt like this before? people they enter our lives at such random times that we almost try and pressure ourselves into creating a relationship with them even if we know far too little yet. it's the red hair or the neck tattoo or the way they turned to look at you; seconds after your head just said, hello cutie, you've got to wonder. we want relationships. people need people they always will. so people seek out relationships wherever they go in hopes of discovering a magical passage to friendship. if you're out there searching, please let me know where you end up.
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