Ten year class reunion

Wow, ten years since I graduated high school.  Many probably will say “it seems like only yesterday” but to me it seems much, much longer.  In fact, to be honest, I hardly remember those four years at all.  Sure some special moments stand out that included performances or things with friends, but on the whole… really, nothing.

I wasn’t planning on going to the reunion.  It wasn’t until my friend Becky from high school asked me to go did I cave and signed up and booked a flight.  I figured the people I wanted to talk to I already have on Facebook, and the rest I don’t remember anyway.

I kind of feel bad.  I hear my friends on Facebook mention names and I have zero recollection to who they may be.  I suppose I could dig through a year book or something before I head back to Illinois and try to recount people I may run into, but I don’t care that much.  I have a group of about five people I’m really looking forward to seeing.  The rest I guess never mattered enough for me to remember that they existed.

We’re (more or less) going to stick together as a group and travel via Becky’s mom’s car who only has a tape deck.  I volunteered to put together a sweet mix tape that would jive with our four years we were there.  And here it is:

1. Third Eye Blind – Semi Charmed Life
2. Bush – Swallowed
3. Oasis – Wonderwall
4. The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
5. Hanson – MMMBop
6. Goo Goo Dolls – Black Balloon
7. Merrill Bainbridge – Mouth
8. Meredith Brooks – Bitch
9. Sarah McLachlan – Building a Mystery
10. Jewel – Foolish Games
11. Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
12. Cake – I Will Survive
13. Savage Garden – I Want You
14. Spice Girls – Say You’ll Be There
15. Fool’s Garden – Lemon Tree
16. Beck – Where It’s At
17. Beastie Boy s- Intergalactic
18. Bloodhound Gang – The Bad Touch
19. Santana and Rob Thomas – Smooth
20. No Doubt – Sunday Morning
21. Chumbawamba – Tubthumping

So here’s to Grant Community High School class of 1999.  Go Bulldogs.  Here’s where I’ll be going, and for your entertainment some photos.

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