T H E H I G H S C H O O L M E M E

thanks to SallyDallyDo for this one!

What year was it?
1977-1981

What were your favorite bands or musical artists?
Led Zeppelin, The dBs, The Police, Rush, Mike Cross, Patti Smith, Tom Robinson Band, Steeleye Span, Renaissance, Sex Pistols, Tyrannosaurus Rex (more so than T. Rex)

What was your favorite outfit?
Black velvet suit with bowler hat and aviator scarf. Obviously I had issues.

What was up with your hair?
Mostly long to longer, parted in the middle with occasional flirtation with bangs.

Who were your best friends?
For the girls, I hung out with Annel, Alison, Kara, Jinny, Jennifer, Ann, Carolyn, Lynn, Nancy, Donna, Doris, Kim, Lisa, Kathleen, Diana. As for guys there was Dickie, Jimmy H., Jeff, Laird, Greg, Jon, Rowdy, Jimmy T., David, Eddie, Rodney, Kevin, Jon H., Mike

Where did you work?
Didn’t. Wasn’t allowed to. But I practiced music incessantly and read tarot cards for the cheerleaders.

Did you fight with your parents?
I have vague recollections of disagreements – but everyone, including me, agreed that I had two of the coolest parents ever.

Whom did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?
John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin, Sting from The Police and Jimmy McCullough from Wings.

Did you smoke cigarettes?
No – still haven’t.

Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack only because you were too nervous to find your locker?
No – but my senior high school was pretty big, and I also took classes off campus, so a backpack was absolutely necessary most of the time.

Did you have a 'clique'?
People I regularly hung out with – yes. But ‘cliquey?’ No.

Did you have "The Max" like Zach, Kelly, and Slater?
Mmmmm…..The Rose and Thistle underneath the Hawthorne Curve. Mmmmmmm.

Admit it, were you popular?
Not in any conventional sense.

Whom did you want to be just like?
Patti Smith. Except for the heroin part. And the armpits. Deifinitely not the armpits.

What did you want to be when you grew up?
I was so totally going to be in a rock band and also work for a radio station. I had done both by the time I was 19….

Well it appears that the Lost Colony may be more lost than we thought. Or was it merely misplaced...?

Many thanks to Jeef for this one!

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