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- From: tal@plts.uucp (Tom Limoncelli)
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- Subject: Re: My 5-year HS Reunion... the results!
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 20:45:36 -0500
- Organization: P.L.T.S., North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
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- In <1992Dec30.022504.18017@oracle.us.oracle.com> dgilly@us.oracle.com (Daniel Gilly) writes:
-
- >> All the "proud crowd" (the nickname for the popular clique) was
- >> there. Some of them were really confused by my button. Finally
- >> someone (Amy) came up to me and said, "Doug and those guys want to
- >> know what your button means and I told them that they need to grow
- >> up." She then came out to me :-) and we had a grand old time
- >> talking about things.
-
- >I'm curious about the reputation of this "proud crowd." Were they
- >self-centered jerks, putting down anyone who wasn't "in"? Or were they
-
- They were the rich-n-popular people. Rich-n-popular is one word
- because if you are rich you are popular and if you are popular
- you are rich. Right? (Ah, the logic of HS).
-
- >popular because they were friendly to everybody? I guess I'd like to
- >know how they treated you back when you were in school, and whether
- >you're saying here that their attitude hadn't changed a bit.
-
- They never treated me great. I was this nerdy little guy. The
- situation was typical. They all had lots of (unsafe) sex but hid it
- due to shame. Word got out that I had a healthy sex life (and wasn't
- ashamed about it) and they berated me and spread some amazing rumors.
- Go figure.
-
- >At my *five* year reunion, I found that 50% of the jerks had matured but
- >50% were still jerks. At my ten year, more (but still not all)
- >of the jerks had mellowed.
-
- >> I got to talk with Amanda Zwacky,
-
- >Really!? She sort of sounds like a past (or past-perfect ?)
- >relative of Arnold Zwicky's ? :-)
-
- I told her that. It seems that there are lots of
- [SZ]w[aeiou]*ck{ie|y}'s out there.
-
- >Several months ago, however, I found myself coming out to
- >prospective employers during job interviews. Initially I was
- >nervous, but as I got more interviews under my belt, I had the
- >pleasure of observing matter-of-fact reactions to my matter-of-fact
- >coming out. It was rather easy, actually, since invariably I was
- >asked to recount the same story. Whether the question was, "Why
- >did you quit your job?" or "Why did you move to California?",
- >it was a golden opportunity to tell them that my SO had been
- >transferred, that I had moved out with *him*, etc., etc.
- >No one ever flinched. Several people even smiled appreciatively.
- >It felt great!
-
- ...and now you don't have to worry about coming out to your boss! :-)
-
- Tom
- --
- Tom Limoncelli -- tal@plts.uucp (home) -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work)
- Heros falling to the ground / like hell's magnet / pulls me down / on my knees
- / I try to please his eyes / his idol eyes. / Jerking motions won't revive him
- / mouth to mount resusitation / I just lay down beside him / and idolize.
-