School reunion - help!!!

Dear Is It Normal beings,

I gather you here today for I have a rather serious dilemma to face in the near future.

In about a month I will be attending a school reunion and I'm wondering how I should present myself, as nothing has really happened in my life since we graduated. I cannot say I invented Post-its because that's already been taken by Romy or Michele (I can't remember which) and I can't tell them the truth: that I spend my time, when I'm not at work or asleep, on IIN, asking and answering questions and talking to you guys!!!

It is a fact that out of the group I am one of those few who has tons of adventurous stories to tell that don't involve getting a career in our field, promotions, raises, bonuses, a spouse, children, etc. In other words, I haven't managed to enter mainstream adult life, like they have.

If it matters, I don't drink or do drugs anymore, and except for all the aforementioned, I look great and do pretty well in a different, though less prestigious, career that I love better than our original one.

Should I just go with the Post-its?
Thanks a bunch.
:)

Post-its are your best bet!	2
Hire a male hooker and borrow 2 kids from the orphanage.	17
Knock this shit off and be yourself.	52
Don't go, stay in IIN member chat.	12
I have a better plan! (and I will tell you in the comments)	10

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howaminotmyself

11 years ago

If you are happy with who you are, just go as yourself. Who are you trying to impress?

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  Oh, I'm definitely going as myself! I'm also taking you and your sister yesnomaybeso. Since you're likely shorter, she's probably the big sister, so you should listen her, young lady! ;)
  
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  - howaminotmyself
    
    11 years ago
    
    You're taking me to a party? Sounds like fun!
    
    But I should warn you, I don't always listen. :P
    
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  - yesnomaybeso
    
    11 years ago
    
    hahahhaha nice!! :) but i'd prefer being the baby....
    
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yesnomaybeso

11 years ago

Although the borrowing two kids one made me laugh, I'd just say that you're happy with your life because you're doing well in your (new) career and that you don't have kids because you think you're too young for that and you wanted to enjoy life ;)

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  Yours was the first and sweetest comment, so you won one of the roles of my fake kids!!! Yay!!! It's in 10 days. You'll need a bathing suit! :D
  
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[Old Memory]

11 years ago

Tell them you're a mad scientist with plans to revive Adolf Hitler and crush the American capitalist government!

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- Avant-Garde
  
  10 years ago
  
  *Tears glistening in eyes*
  
  I love this! Its such a beautifully diabolical plan...
  
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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  Maybe I should take you as one of the kids, too. A mini-hitler. Oh god. No. I don't know. I'd be the talk of the reunion for sure.
  
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dappled

11 years ago

Michele invented the glue for post-its. She was mixing in an epoxide after thermosetting her resin and during the emulsification process she realised she could raise the viscosity by adding in a complex glucose derivative. Fun fact: Lisa Kudrow has a science degree and ad libbed that whole speech.

I think you and I should dress as Romy and Michele and go to your reunion together. If nothing else, it'd be a laugh.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  That's a very interesting idea. I'm just torn between wanting to *be* Lisa Kudrow or *be friends with* Lisa Kudrow. I really can't imagine which could be more fun!! I looove her so so much!
  
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  - dappled
    
    11 years ago
    
    Ha! I have exactly the same problem with Mira Sorvino. I think she's brilliant! I guess that means I have to dress up like Lisa Kudrow, you dress up as Mira Sorvino, and then we can hang out with our favourite people. :D
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      11 years ago
      
      I'll be damned! I've managed to put together a dream dysfunctional family AND get the perfect best friend to come along?! *That* would make it so much more fun, I suppose. Now I don't even wanna go, it pales in comparison.
      
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myownopinions

11 years ago

Better plan: Buy a whole bunch of fake jewelry, hire a whole bunch of servants, come in a limo wearing a tux and a breif case and pass off the persona of some big-shot who owns a successful business in a country that people don't know about. Then act like you're too good to talk to your classmates.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  That reminded me of Chandler moving to Yemen. Haha.
  
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disthing

11 years ago

I recognise that writing style :P

I say you pretend you have 8 children and live in a trailer eating tinned meat and watching a tiny television, swearing at your boyfriend Dirk.

I mean, if you're going to be pretentious, have fun with it. Why do the predictable and pretend you're some great entrepreneur when you could pretend you're right at the bottom of the ladder, miserable and an alcoholic? :)

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  Uuh, what was it? My poor punctuation skills gave me away?
  
  Sooo, can I put you down for male hooker?
  
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dirtybirdy

11 years ago

Go as the Dude. Piss on THEIR fuckin rug man!!

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  Oh my! What a lovely idea! So many wardrobe options! Can't decide between the grey sweatshirt with the hoodie and the oversized jacquard sweater. And the pants or shorts! Wow! Though one. They're all so flattering on me.
  
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Who_Fan4Life

11 years ago

Crash the reunion.

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  11 years ago
  
  Ha. That's an odd one.
  
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BowTied

10 years ago

Get a couple of decent-sized guys to wear prison guard uniforms, wear an orange jumpsuit, and have the two guys escort you to the reunion with you wearing handcuffs and leg-shackles! Be memorable as hell, if nothing else!

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11 years ago

if whatever you are doing and whatever you are makes you happy and satisfied then stay as you are and enjoy..... but what i think it will not remain for much time ... a time will come you'll get bored of hangouts... your friends or rather they'll get tired of you..... that you will feel the need of being independent and on a good prestige.... that you will feel you have to get mature....
so why not take a plan with you and go accordingly with everything balanced..
secondly, what all you have been doing is done it cannot be changed now so stand on it proudly and there is no fault in sitting and getting amused by any social website... or any thing else ..
its simple you tell them you had been enjoying all the time and have had learned something and done many things that no body there might have tried in this period of time... :) :)

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  I will NOT tell them about IIN, if that's what you implied! Hahaha. Just kidding. Thanks.
  
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  - o_0
    
    11 years ago
    
    umm kinda.....! in other words you can stand on it proudly .... what will happen if you let them know you had been doing nothing useful according to them....?
    
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Lynxikat

11 years ago

You could, you know.... NOT go to your high school reunion.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  Yeah, I could stay and go to IIN chat, got lots of votes for that. Haha. But I'm going to see my university buddies. :)
  
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NocturnePonyFan

11 years ago

OK, here's what you do. Take your favourite character from a well-known movie or tv show, and basically take that life for yourself. For instance, I would tell people I used to live in Philadelphia, playing basketball and chilling out outside school. Then my mom got angry at me for a fight, and sent me to live with my relatives in California. Blah, blah, you get the picture. And just keep going until someone figures it out.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  That shouldn't be too hard for me as I am the person behind the Muriel's Wedding bit on another post around here, that Scale of Evil one. I'm going to take your suggestion and I may play around with the plot of Gone With the Wind and see how far I can get.
  
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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  Hey! Thanks again for the suggestion. It was one of the highlights of the party. At a certain moment I caught the attention of a small group of us and wanted to tell them what I'd been up to.
  
  I told them that I'd inherited a farm in the south and took over managing it. Someone asked "what kind of farm?". Me: "A plantation"... So a few minutes of Q&A followed, as they were kind of shocked at the turn my life had taken. I went on to tell them about my crazy love life and how I was in love with someone else, who married their cousin, and not the man I married, who was in love with me, only to realize I actually did love him after I'd been horrible to him, but then it was too late because he told me "frankly my dear, I don't give a damn".
  
  That's when one of them blurted out "Fuck. I can't believe you interrupted me to tell us that crap!", slapped my arm and then hugged me.
  
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  So I got all serious again and told them what really happened. That I'd moved to NYC, gotten a job as an art curator and married a doctor. (More plausible urban setting).
  
  And just because one day, after a Xmas party we'd been to, when I was stoned at home, I admitted to almost cheating on him with a sailor at a B&B where we stayed, he set off to fucking get back at me and found himself a cheap hooker with whom he didn't even have sex with.
  
  It was on the same night he found his way into a masked party with a frikking cloak, where all these hot ladies in thongs wearing masks and high heels took part in an orgy!!! AAAAAHHH!!!
  
  When I got to that last part, no one believed me, though. But we had a laugh.
  
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popsy123

11 years ago

Hiii...

Reuinons can make u happy or sad:)
i skipped my skools 6 year reunion....as i knew i wud feel worse about myself after meeting old pals esp as i was the class topper..but after skool i hadnt been able to keep up with others in terms of personal life(most are married with kids) or career:)
So if u think u will feel awful abt others skip it...
Else go open minded have fun and don bother much comapring u n others

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  Yes, much like I feel about my university friends, but because of my own life choices; I never had the same priorities as they had. They were very mainstream, let's put it like that. I've always been somewhat different, so I couldn't expect to have turned out the same as they did, now that I think about it. Your comment actually made me realize I couldn't be any different than what I am. And, overall, I am pretty satisfied with what I've become. Thank you.
  
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[Old Memory]

11 years ago

Be yourself or don't bother going, but don't lie or put on airs that you're something other than what you are.

I never went to my high school reunion. I heard it was a pleasant affair and I regret not making more of an effort to make it. If they ever have another one, I would probably go.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  Yes, that's what I'm doing, I hate lying, and can never do it properly, really. Well, except for that one farce I mentioned here. Actually, it's a college reunion, and I already missed our graduation because I crashed my car the day of, I wouldn't want to miss this. ;)
  
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[Old Memory]

11 years ago

Honesty (and omission) is almost always the best policy, for a multitude of reasons that I'm not going to go into here.

But if you need to lie and impress them, just say you're me ;)

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  I wouldn't know what to say about me after I said I was you. Ha. ;)
  
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- [Old Memory]
  
  11 years ago
  
  I agree with this statement. You can tell them only the good things and stay quiet about the bad ones. You can also just try your best not to give a fuck and be proud of who you are and your accomplishments. I emphasis try. I think the first option is easier for most people.
  
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