Love is fun, sex is heaven, we're the class of '87!

Oh, my.  My 20th high school reunion is looming right around the corner, and I'm beside myself.  I've offered my services with web development (you can see from this website I'm a smooooth operator).

Meanwhile, I have been casting the ol' memory back to the day, remembering the look and feel of 1987  and what it meant to be in high school (in my case: "Let me out of here!  I'm little and easily harmed by others!").  I get a flood of names and faces.

Kent Bejcek, all-around good guy (way cooler than my circle of friends, of course) now running an internet dev company.  The Humphries twins (hot hot hot!).  Trina Camiletti, superhottie who retained the unusual quality of also being exceedingly and sincerely nice.  Scottie Parker and Scott Woog - short and tall extremes in the jock class.  Band fags (moi!), stoners (not moi - I wasn't even cool enough for these guys), jocks, cowboys/girls, asshats...it all comes flooding back.

I googled everybody in the class, just for fun.  I'm glad to say that I lead the class in Google hits, with around 22,000 mostly repetitive and occasionally badly aimed hits, but I was surprised at how many of them have just disappeared.  The worst part, though?

I'm an adult.  A grown man, nearing 40, with my insecurities in the past.  I have a lovely wife and children, I'm respected by my peers - at least some of them, and have taught my children many lessons about not worrying what other people think.  Yet going down that list, more than once I saw a name and was immediately irritate, thinking "that guy's a jock - why do I want to google that dick?".  (I'm no sexist - I had a few "what a bitch; I hope she doesn't show up" moments, too) 

Seriously, wtf?  I see now why reunions can be so ridiculous.  The immediate return to high school biases, hurt feelings, love gone wrong, is very disorienting.  I suddenly found myself pining for friends who I cared for deeply, yet never talked to again after May 15, 1987.  Very weird.

So anyway, I've decided to make the 20th reunion an ongoing topic here.  I'm going to try and get in touch with folks and fill out their story here, and maybe all the weirdness can be handled before we ever meet back in Colorado.  Look for embarrassing photos and awkward conversations to come...