with this facebook notion.

I just had a dear sweetheart that I knew in GRADE SCHOOL friend me. She was a foreign exchange family from Scotland. We clicked and were best buds for that year. She even came back a couple years later and we spent a few days together.

Anyway I haven't talked to her for 15, 20 years?

So cool. Facebook win.

"Ta Friggin da"

That's just creepy as fuck. She's stalking you 20 years later.

I don't think that's creepy at all.
My early jr.high best friend and I were looking for each other for years on these social websites. She finally found me and we were so giddy.
Maybe it's a girl thing.

Me too, 'Neady. I found my best friend from elementary school on FB. We got together over Christmas when I was in NY, and it was like no time had gone by at all.

I have found many people I didn't think were awesome as a kid, who definitely grew up to be. It's been nice to discard the "He was a jock, she was a nerd" stuff as adults and see what people became. There are certainly some examples of people who didn't grow much, but that's easy to avoid.

I think its cool too. Particularly in grade school, people are totally moving and relocating at the whims and needs of the parents. Its not like people in elementary school are purposefully breaking off friendships or something.

I've been on FB for a few years now, and every time a memory launches itself to the front of my consciousness about someone, I think, "I wonder if I can find them on FB!" It's not creepy, it's the information age. We don't have to NOT KNOW what happened to someone any more. Like anything it's got it's upside and downside - but that why you don't have to be on FB or friend anyone you don't want to.

For example, I was shaving the other day, and I happened to notice the scar on my chin. Later that day I was talking to my mom about how we're putting the girls into a different preschool next year, that happens to be on the street where I fell of my bike and got that scar on my chin. Of course, that brought the memory of that day to the front of my mind, and I remembered the kid I was with when it happened (who lived on that street). So I FB'd him up and friended him. No idea if he'll friend me back, but his life sure looks interesting from the window I can see on FB!

I recently succumbed to curiosity and looked up a girl I had hooked up with for a month or so way back in my twenties.

I was her summer fling while her boyfriend was away in Europe or something. I always remembered her as the 2nd most beautiful girl I had ever slept with.

She was old. I wish I hadn't replaced the young her with the old one in my memory banks. There was no reason for it.

I can totally see how this is possible.

I teared up a bit when I saw my friends message. Totally made my whole day. Week really.

"Ta Friggin da"

Ra-ma la-ma la-ma ka ding a da ding de dong
Shoo-bop sha wad-da wad-da yipp-it-y boom de boom
Chang chang chang-it-ty chang shoo-bop
Dip da-dip da-dip doo-wop da doo-bee doo
Boog-e-dy boog-e-dy boog-e-dy boog-ed-y
Shoo-by doo-wop she-bop
Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na yip-pit-y boom de boom
Ra-ma la-ma la-ma ka ding-a de ding de dong
Shoo-bop sha wad-da wad-da yipp-it-y boom de boom
Chang chang chang-it-ty chang shoo-bop
Dip da-dip da-dip doo-wop da doo-bee doo
Boog-e-dy boog-e-dy boog-e-dy boog-e-dy
shoo-by doo-wop she-bop
Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na yip-pit-ty boom de boom

What's sadder, you posting that, or me instantaneously knowing exactly what it was and reading it accordingly in my head?

I knew it, but only because I heard the song on Big Bang Theory last night. Haven't seen grease since highschool.

It's tit for tat. Or, it's VH1's fault for showing Grease on a lazy Saturday afternoon.

smirk trivia fact:

smirk was in all four of his high school musicals. In order:

Grease
Jesus Christ Superstar
Anything Goes
Fiddler on the Roof


Of those, Anything Goes is the only one which still contains anything of interest for me.

Also, I never had any major roles, just background parts or small speaking/singing role.

Truth: I was there for the parties. Believe it or not, the best parties were during the JCS run. Some Sixteen Candles shit going on back then. I may still be hung over. By the time my Senior year hit with Fiddler the parties had fizzled out and a bunch of do-gooders from SADD had taken over the whole school.

Were you the one in the convertible or the one trapped under the glass table?

I was always in the background at the parties too. In this photograph I'm the guy in the wifebeater behind the guy in the yellow shirt.

See, I never saw those guys as the 'background.' Just as the stories not currently featured in our point of view. The beauty of these movies was the universality of the experience. Every kid at dance is going through something similar.

I actually always preferred those goofy John Cusack movies Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer to the John Hughes stuff. Less touchy-feely and more slap-stick, but still with heart.

Back then, for me, it was more likely for me to be tormented by a kid half my age rather than real bullies my own age. I just wasn't a challenge for them. After all, I was in the high school musicals.

"TWO DOLLARS!"

"Lookit that. Someone threw away a perfectly good white boy."

Eh.