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Today was a huge trek down memory lane. I found my old high school yearbook from my senior year, and reread the into and outro that I have read many times before. Basically it talked about our high school career as if it were our own personal movie; everyone else were supporting actors. I remember my first day, I was scared shitless and was thinking of ways to convince my parents to homeschool me. I remember this was the time my dad taught me how to fight, because I came home crying one day after all this harassment. I remember my many transitions, how I tried to go goth for a week and all my girls that I grew up with told me that I would fail at being goth. We all had that hollywood stereotype that goths don't smile or laugh, and I couldn't hold a straight face to save my life. I opted for punk instead, hahaha! I took out my old memory box, and went through all the things that made high school(mainly parts of my junior and senior years) and part of my college life. I read through old inside jokes; "suicide is the new gay!", reading about old journals that we used instead of passing countless notes. I remember thinking to myself 5 years ago, that the next time I go through this, I would think about all the people who made my life hell and mentally destroy them. How wrong was I? Looking back, I remembered all the good times that I had. All the trouble my friends and I would purposely get ourselves into, and STILL managed to get out of detention or ISS. Albeit the second half of junior year, going into senior year was known as "the year of drama", I feel like that prepped me for the drama that would be known as MC. The most amazing part of all, I made it through high school unscathed...much to my surprise. As much as I hated high school and some of the people in it, I'm glad to have gone through the experience that I did. It definitely toughened me up.

While putting away the yearbook and memory box, I came across my old photo album featuring photos of the "Strong Enough to Break" premiere at UMD with commentary. To my only reader (that I'm aware of)...WE HAVE TO SWEAR THAT CERTAIN FRIENDS WILL NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER SEE THESE PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY! I started reading through some of the things we wrote, and my mouth dropped! It's hilarious, but I'm sure it would be mortifying if they saw this. HAHAHAHA! After the commentary by the fabulous authors, there are pictures that make us look high. Damn flash! For some reason there's a lot of commentary involving Ike and lesbians hahahahaha!

Now I have gone through this one album of memories, this just gives me a headache thinking about how many more pictures that I need to print. *Sigh* It'll be a great way to laugh. I have to remember to finish the yearbook, and give David his own section for all of the gay poses he has done over the years. My book, my rules man! I still have to do the cutest couples section, as request of Jose. This is turning into a middle school yearbook, but this will be another great thing to look back on down the road.