Unfortunately, I think this is going to be another one of those posts where I sort of apologize to my own LiveJournal for not posting in it enough. The last time I went for a really long period of time without posting was about 3 years ago when I was depressed. But I am very not depressed now, so I blame Facebook and Twitter. ^_^
Oh, Facebook/Twitter and your instant gratification/ease of posting-laziness. A lot has actually been going on in my life. Last month I went back East and took a road trip with my family to New Jersey. We visited my 92-year-old grandmother (Dad's mom) and spent a couple nights in a hotel. I think my favorite part was when we got frozen "hot" chocolate and went to the beach at Point Pleasant for about a half hour. It made me think of when they went to Montauk in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" because there were very few people on the beach. Just one old man fishing and a couple of people walking. On the way back we stopped for a night in Mechanicsburg and I got to spend about 4 hours talking in the hotel lobby with my "old flame" Jason. He's still cute :)
Part of the reason I timed my trip for that week in October was to go to my 10-year high school reunion. It's funny to think about the fact that when I started this journal, I was only 3 years out of high school. A high school reunion at Winchester Thurston is not just a high school reunion, really. It's more like a step back in time because I attended that school for 12 years in the same building. Now they have a spiffy new Upper School building that looks like a University building. But I also got to see rooms in the old building and the strange new things they've done with them. It's so odd to see the library I used in Middle and Upper school transformed into administrative offices and a gallery/lecture room, the physics and chemistry labs being used for art classes, and the former art gallery/student lounge being used as a Spanish classroom.
I saw several people from my class, but like Stacey White (one of my classmates) said, it's not quite as surprising to see everyone at the reunion because we can all reconnect and see each other on Facebook. It's a changed world. I was never very close with most of the people in my graduating class except for
nay01. Except for a few marriages and the obvious growing up and getting jobs thing, people are not extremely different. I am glad that a few people from a few grades before me and a few grades after me showed up though. My high school crush Marty was there too. It was good to see him doing so well, since I'd seen him once while at a club during college and I have to admit I was worried about him. But now he looks exactly the same, except for the loss of a little hair.
I got to kind of continue the reunion even when I came back to L.A. I met up and had dinner with Matt Engelberg, one person that I was good friends with at WT. Fantastic to see him and I hope we can get together again soon.
I'm getting sleepy. I went on a tour of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery today and then came home and spent hours on my feet making turkey meatballs.
What advice do people have to get me to update on LJ more often and not give all my energy to Facebook?