1. What year was it?
1988
2. What were your three favourite bands?
U2, The Damned, Depeche Mode
3. What was your favourite outfit?
Jeans and sweaters. I haven’t changed much.
4. What was up with your hair?
That was the year I grew it out and got a perm, after three years of haircolor of the week-ness and all manner of amateur spikes.
5. Who were your best friends?
Iveta, Laura, and Stephanie. I was really only really close to Iveta, but musically Laura and Stephanie had more in common with me, and back then music was everything.
Oh, and Mark, but that’s another story.
6. What did you do after school?
Usually hung out with Iveta. Smoked. Drank. Whatever.
7. Did you take the bus?
No, I drove.
8. Who did you have a crush on?
Mark. And Gunner, briefly. But mostly Mark.
9. Did you fight with your parents?
Constantly. And I usually won.
10. Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?
Larry Mullen and Dave Vanian. It’s hard to believe I spent more than an hour on the phone with the latter one day a year and change ago.
11. Did you smoke cigarettes?
Yes.
12. Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?
Actually, my locker was a bit of a hangout. Seniors had good placement, and I was pretty hip by my senior year. Kinda. Sorta.
13. Did you have a ‘clique’?
In a way, several. There was a younger group that I really enjoyed hanging out with, but we were sort of the new wave kids. There was a group of my peers, who were more into the REM side of things, that included Bill and Jeff and Dave and a host of others. I was one of the yearbook staff, and we were very cliquey. But honestly, I wasn’t close to any of my senior year cliques. My earlier ones were better. Junior year, it was Shawn, Darlene, and Michael. Freshman and Sophomore year, it was Kelly, Chris, Jesse. Throughout all of that, there were the Kings Dominion gang.. Robbie, Bobby, Valerie, Dan, Gunner, Todd… gosh. lots of people. And there was the whole Latin club thing. Wait, I think I’m getting nostalgic. Over high school. shoot me.
14. Did you have “The Max” like Zach, Kelly and Slater?
I was part of all these fringe-like cliques who were too good for our city. Most of my hangouts were in Richmond and Northern Virginia. Mostly, we hung out at each others’ houses.
15. Admit it, were you popular?
Not with the popular crowd. I was always an outsider, and at the time I was too self-conscious to really fit in anywhere.
16. Who did you want to be just like?
Sherry Kennedy, one of my english teachers. With a bit of Dave Vanian hair and flair.
17. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Snerk. A latin professor. But all my English teachers said I was going to be a writer.
18. Where did you think you’d be at the age you are now?
I had no friggin clue, like most of us.
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