Are Reunions Necessary?
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Typewriter: 1963 Hermes 3000.
I meant to fix the typos before scanning it. Honest. And I don’t know if all 3000s punch right through the paper and shred their ribbons, but two out of three of mine do no matter how I set the resistance–and the one that doesn’t has problems.
As I remarked on the Facweb, I read somewhere that Hermes have rock-hard platens, in general (my two Rockets definitely do).
Good point– I think we may be the last generation for which formal reunions make sense. Eventually people are just going to be born post-corporeal, as online entities.
Comment by Strikethru — July 29, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
My ten-year was this year, but I let it slip. Couldn’t bring myself to do that whole “I work at a 9-5 but what I REALLY want to be is a writer” thing. Maybe I’ll show up for the next one. Maybe.
Truthg be told, not that many of my classmates were into tech back in the day. Keep in mind, the last year i was in high school, 1999, teh interwebs were still in their social networking infancy.
Now, my little sister’s generation, the late-teens/early 20’s crowd? I’m surprised they even know what each other look like outside of Facebook photos.
Comment by Mike.Speegle — July 30, 2009 @ 7:55 am
That’s right, I want to be a writer. Evidently, the kind that spells words like “truthg” and arbitrarily leaves lowercase i’s lying about.
Comment by Mike.Speegle — July 30, 2009 @ 7:57 am
Speegle, you just made me realize that I should have worn my “I Make Stuff Up” shirt to the reunion. Dagnabbit!
Comment by olivander — July 30, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
My 10-year reunion sounds pretty much like your 20-year. Most memorable point of the night was my wife getting clumsily/drunkenly groped by our (former) class president, right before he got into a spiel about how we are all really Saved Through Jesus. It was, we have reflected, Quite a Night. And one that I didn’t bother repeating last summer when my 20th came up. And truthfully, I don’t need to go 2500+ miles for drunken blather… I get that for free right here! Hey-O!
One of of high school alums set up a web site about a year and a half ago, as a freebie insiders-only answer to the pay-to-connect reunion type sites out there. And with the MyFacewebSpaceBooks, *is* there any reason to make the trek? The Mrs. has (grope-free) managed to reconnect with a number of old friends-and-relations through the magical ‘tubes, to the point where her class having a late reunion this year isn’t that big a deal — she’s already had it, in a sense.
For the record, when those alumni surveys come, I like through my teeth. On the last one, I said I was a career novelty ice-cream designer by day, masked crime-fighter and Barry White tribute-band member by night.
I don’t get a lot of calls for alumni donations any more.
Comment by mpclemens — July 30, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
That is, I “lie” through my teeth. I are a gud speeler.
Comment by mpclemens — July 30, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
I see, on the facetubes, that my 20th came and went this month. I was able to look at some pictures. Lots of people who I never spoke to in school, and to whom I can’t imaging I’d have anything to say now.
Might as well have a big reunion of People Who Happened to be On The #22 High Street Bus on April 12, 1991. Would be just as relevant.
(Plus I was secretly afraid they’d pick captains and hold a draft to choose teams for some brutal sport, and it would come down to me and the kid with leg braces at the end. Just like old times.)
Comment by duffymoon — July 31, 2009 @ 7:14 am
My 30th is coming up next year and I’ll probably go. God, I dread it. I’m mercilessly updated as is since everyone my age learned to use the internet in the past ten months. It’s like somebody flipped a tech switch and all these good people stole Facebook from their kids.
Comment by monda — August 1, 2009 @ 7:35 pm