the only time my hair's been dyed was under duress at the hands of my highschool wrestling squad, who had all bleached their hair because ... who knows why. school spirit or something. predictably, they did a shitty job and my hair turned an awful coppery color.
since then i've not used anything stronger than lemon juice.
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
god i love highschool
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm so glad it's over.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
my patents were not amused by the bleach job, either, and acted as if it had been my idea.
god i hated highschool.
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
who the hell loves HS? surm, were you a Heather?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
like smooth and satin-y pink, yknow?
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Monday, May 10, 2010 7:45 PM (1 hour ago)
this shit is hard to keep up tho
― plax (ico), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't have a bad time; my crew and I acquired a fair amount of respect by the time we reached senior year due to involvement in theatre and the literary magazine. But I wasn't out, and when I got to college I had no idea why contemporaries considered high school so awesome.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I absolutely loved high school, and I was no Heather.
Because it wasn't junior high school.
― will live out his days in gloomy batchelorhood (Eric H.), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
It was still possible to have a great time in H.S. without being out, too, btw.
That said, I wish I had been a little more out then, because I would've gotten a lot more ass.
― will live out his days in gloomy batchelorhood (Eric H.), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I went to boys Catholic school. Ass was everywhere: pimply, swollen, lanky, you name it.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Swollen ass?
― will live out his days in gloomy batchelorhood (Eric H.), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
freshman yr = hatehatehate this shitsoph = eh this isn't so bad anymorejunior = ok i kinda hate it againsenior = HS ROOLZ
― a connecticut muffin in king arthur's flour (donna rouge), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Swollen ass = a consequence of puberty.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
9th = was still in junior high, but it wasn't quite as bad as 7th/8th10th = I finally feel like I fit in11th = don't remember much12th = HS ROOLZ
― will live out his days in gloomy batchelorhood (Eric H.), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
highschoolhttp://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g192/rrawn/highschool.jpg
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
In Catholic boys schools, I guess.
― will live out his days in gloomy batchelorhood (Eric H.), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
omg, you WERE one of the Heathers!
Lots of filched unconsecrated communion wafers.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
high school was the best
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 May 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
there's something about the innocence & mild rebellion & rush of initial independence of high school that can't be replicated
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 May 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i knew you'd understand
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh I get that part, but it pales beside what succeeded it, and the sexual discoveries were forced and not, er, gay.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm okay with having only masturbated all thru high school tbh -- sex in college has only been marginally better anyhow \(o_O)/
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 May 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
― will live out his days in gloomy batchelorhood (Eric H.), Monday, May 10, 2010 9:45 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
REALLY
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
hs is the worst and I still look at anyone who says they like it funny
― jagger edge (The Reverend), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
then again I never developed anything remotely resembling social skills until I was about 19
― jagger edge (The Reverend), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that might have something to do with it...
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 May 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Rev, were you nineteen when we met? You were totally cool!
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
20, I think? I was a v different person than I had been 2-3 years earlier at that point.
― jagger edge (The Reverend), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, definitely 20, cause I was just a couple months shy of my 21st when I got kicked out of the EMP bar.
I was v. much an angry, awkward, frustrated, nerdy teenager.
― jagger edge (The Reverend), Monday, 10 May 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
hs was a "best of times, worst of times" situation for me:
on the surface I was rocking: class president, had a diff. girlfriend every year, lotsa friends, in a band, doing a zine, part of the punk scene, plenty of fun shit going on
inside / in secret: closeted, doing lots of risky promiscuous stuff in public with strangers, lying to everyone, painful unrequited love for str8 friends and bandmates, clingy n depressive, homicidal/suicidal, a mess.
I'm glad I survived.
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
wow
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm glad u survived, too. highschool you sounds like a very interesting person
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i was def v much in the closet and was scared of being outed but that didn't really hinder my experience in high school -- most of my straight guy friends weren't doing shit w/ girls until late in senior year anyway, so i didn't really have much pressure on me
i had tons of unrequited love for str8 friends, and even had subtle moves subtly rebutted, but in a weird way it kind of gave my life purpose -- like in a perverse way it was fun knowing that after we went swimming, i got to go home and masturbate to the thought of a circle jerk -- i kind of took the position of "i'll figure this out in college" & was cool w/ it
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah the closet is awful but it also animates every interaction with this pressurized power that lends an unmistakeable, big erotic charge to mundane stuff.
I don't miss it, but I've been thinking about hs a lot because tomorrow I fly home to Louisville, KY to see all my old posse, and my highschool band is reforming to play a benefit concert for our friend who has bone cancer. It's going to be a major headfuck to sing those songs I wrote at 17 (love songs about other people in the band, mind you) after all those years. Weird! Awkward!
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome, amazing. u'll learn a lot about yourself
/freud
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i was not "in the closet" but i was not like OUT either
You woulda loved my locker room after PE, surm. I can swear that I was too young to feel urges. I didn't kiss a boy until I was twenty-two.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i was 20
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i first kissed a girl when i was 13
It was so romantic. We sat on the dirt. A rat the size of a tabby scurried over the pine needles.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i felt real pressure to kiss a girl just to say that i had kissed someone, but i never felt enough pressure to go any further just to say that i had
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, with your looks you could have been.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
which resulted in me being quite the heartbreaker in HS -- i feel like i should track these girls down so i can do the whole "no really, it really WAS me, not you" routine
ha!
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, attention all NYC gays: I might be in town the weekend after Memorial Day (first week of June). I'd love a FAP.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i used to kiss girls in like elementary school, bc i was really popular with them and i kind of figured why not. the other girls would tease me cuz i had a crush on this one girl, elizabeth ann ferree. she would write me letters about how much she liked me. my grandmother thought it was funny.
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
first kissed a girl at 15, first kissed a guy at 21
― jagger edge (The Reverend), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link