reunion

So I went a couple of weeks ago to my 10-year high school reunion. I know, I'm OLD!!! It was kind of weird to be around people I only knew only for a year. I was pretty much in reverse culture shock for much of the year, so it's kind of a blur to me. About 30 people were there, and 2(yes, two) of us were not married, engaged, or had like, 10 children.
So here's something funny-we filled out 10-year prophecies. I have almost no recollection of ever filling this out, but apparently I did:

EMHS Class of 1996: Prophecy for 10-year class reunion in 2006

Will I be married in 2006? yes (nope)
I will weigh: 125 lbs. (nope)
I'll have 2 children-twins (nope)
Where will I be living? somewhere in the US (yes)
In what places will I have lived? Europe, Africa (half true)
To what places will I have travelled? London (no) Puerto Rico (no) LA (yes) Vegas (yes) Barcelona, Paris, (no and no) Chicago (yes) Miami (not yet!!)
By 2006, how will I have contributed to:
my church? (keep in mind this was a Christian school)
I will be a missionary
my community?
I will work with inner-city kids (???)

What will I have done on vacation in 2005/06?
travel overseas

In what condition will the world and the U.S. be?
worse than it is now (oh, so true)

I'll be driving what kind of car?
Pathfinder, Camry, or truck (truck? where did that come from?)

I'll be living in what type of home?
townhouse or apartment (yes)

How much higher education will I have received?
I will at least get my masters in psychology (half true)

As of 1996, my goals in life are:
to become a child psychologist and have my own office; possibly open a day-care center for abused and neglected children (well, we know how that turned out)
adopt kids from Africa and China (what the hell? china?)
find my Native American roots (not yet)

Name 3 major issues that will face society in 2006
they'll invent ID numbers tatooed under human skin that will replace debit cards (look, i read it in Christian fiction "Left Behind" type of book, ok?)
we'll have a black or woman president (NO, black people, Clinton does NOT count!)
genetic engineering

What specific advances in medicine and technology will have been achieved by 2006?
everyone will have a computer (not quite)
telephones with TV screens attached (true! kind of)

Any other predictions?
the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air will be canceled
sympathy for Native Americans will go out of style (see? deep down, i've always been a cynic)


It was interesting being back there. This was a group of people that I never fit in with, and 10 years later, I still felt like an outsider, although this time, I was ok with it. I was able to just to relax and enjoy myself. I think that somewhere in those 10 years, I've stopped being frustrated that I never fit in with any particular group and just learned to accept it. Hmm.

Anyway, that's enough self-relfective crap.

Hey, everyone don't forget to to vote!!

Laura likes troublemakers....

I have 3 things I'd like to say tonight. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.

~Tony Campolo

Just thought I'd share.

apparently, i go to a university of masturbators...

So my campus was visited on Tuesday by 3 real, live hellfire and brimstone preachers. But the next day, something equally as surprising happened. I guess I have a tendency to stereotype any group that has the word "crusade" in their title, but I think their response to the preachers was decent.

I'm just disappointed that I missed out; I love to watch protests. I'm also fascinated by these 3 people. What drives people to do something like that?
What is going on in their heads?
I mean, extremism has always existed,
but I'm still amazed whenever I come across it. By the way, these are pictures from their website, not from when they were on my campus. See for yourself, most of their photos look the same as these two.

Maybe I could do some kind of anthropological study. Oooh, that would be cool.

I'm such a nerd.

Sniff,sniff...smell that bs? Must be election year!

But....I saw an ad tonight that made me happy. As some of you may know, I've been a teeeeny bit stressed due a giant life-sucking force called grad school.
But some of you also know how much joy I get from making fun of the media. I especially love election year:...my opponent wants to raise taxes...well, my opponent is a liar...well, my opponent is stupid!...oh yeah? well my opponent likes to HURT PUPPIES, blah blah blah-you get the picture.
Well, then I saw an ad for someone running for senate, then I looked it up. Since YouTube is being stupid, I have to put a link to it instead.

I love puppies!

Oh yeah, so what?

I love it!!! I think all politicians should talk about puppies in their ads! That would be GREAT!

due to an ungodly amount of schoolwork, laura's blog will be temporarily written by...the tazmanian devil

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