High school seems like so long ago. I mean, I graduated eight years ago, almost to the date! My life was so different then. I had no idea what I was going to do with myself, I was getting ready to go to college (and major in Computer Science nonetheless!), and I didn't have any really good friends to confide in.
This past weekend Janelle and I went back to Peoria, IL to celebrate my brother Cory's high school graduation from East Peoria Community High School (also my alma mater). We've been back to Peoria more times than I can count since I graduated, but it had been so long since I'd been back to the high school. It brought back so many memories-not just those of my own graduation 8 years ago, but of the 3 graduations held each year prior to my own. You see, as a high school band and choir geek, I had to attend graduation every year to play Pomp and Circumstance as well as play and sing selected pieces with the band and choir.
All of a sudden, while I sat on those ever-so-uncomfortable bleachers in the gym as the ceremony started, floods of memories poured into my head-of faces, laughs, music, teachers, and even homework-all of them, as if they had been hidden under a rock for all these years and just now uncovered. It was almost surreal.
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Janelle, shouldn't you be done reading the Communist Manifesto by now?
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