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beccatoriaSo, I noticed on my userinfo page that I didn't have any of my schools down, and started looking to see if my old high school was listed. It was, and there are about eight people from my school on LJ (at least, who've listed their school). And the first guy's default icon is a picture of himself. Is a picture of a guy I know. Is a picture of a guy I went to primary school with and have thus known since I was 5. He used to live two block away from my parents' house. His mum used to work in the post office.
This guy and his older brother used to chat about the X-Files on the bus stop during my first year of high school. Not being able to join in the conversation, that was the whole reason, at 11, I started watching the X-Files. That was pretty much what sunk me in terms of being a geek. I probably would have found geekery another way, but still.
That guy's older brother loved tabletop roleplaying games and ran the high school's roleplay group. One of my friend's Louise used to dated that guy for over a year (which was an eternity at 13) and got involed in the roleplay group and warhammer. So she got me involved in roleplaying and warhammer. When his older brother left and the club kind of degenerated into him and his friends playing a game at lunchtime, me and Louise and our two friends used to sit around with him pissed off we weren't allowed to join in. Eventually it was just eight of us, four girls and four boys chilling out in classrooms empty classrooms at lunchtime, and that was the first freakin' time in my whole school life that I had a group of friends that felt safe - where I wasn't bullied.
That group got me interested in roleplaying (even if all I saw was other people gaming and then that tailing off too). Which, in the end, is how I met my boy five years ago at university - cos we were both into dungeons & dragons. Which, though I don't post about it much here, is my biggest, biggest "fandom" ever. When it's done right, tabletop rpg games are just incredible.
The point is, I used to know this guy. But he left our school when he was 16 and did sixth form someplace else. But I used to know him. Indirectly, his influence got me friends who didn't treat me like shit, helped turn me into a geek and gave me the defining interests in my life. Indirectly, without him I might not have ever met my boy.
I know, I know, this is probably true about a million people in my life. It's still weird to realise it. To look at this dude's journal and say, "Fuck, man, you're married. To someone who's either a fair bit older than you, or has smoked WAY too much crack. And your hair, while long, really doesn't suit you. But thanks for everything anyway."
It's just so...weird.
This guy and his older brother used to chat about the X-Files on the bus stop during my first year of high school. Not being able to join in the conversation, that was the whole reason, at 11, I started watching the X-Files. That was pretty much what sunk me in terms of being a geek. I probably would have found geekery another way, but still.
That guy's older brother loved tabletop roleplaying games and ran the high school's roleplay group. One of my friend's Louise used to dated that guy for over a year (which was an eternity at 13) and got involed in the roleplay group and warhammer. So she got me involved in roleplaying and warhammer. When his older brother left and the club kind of degenerated into him and his friends playing a game at lunchtime, me and Louise and our two friends used to sit around with him pissed off we weren't allowed to join in. Eventually it was just eight of us, four girls and four boys chilling out in classrooms empty classrooms at lunchtime, and that was the first freakin' time in my whole school life that I had a group of friends that felt safe - where I wasn't bullied.
That group got me interested in roleplaying (even if all I saw was other people gaming and then that tailing off too). Which, in the end, is how I met my boy five years ago at university - cos we were both into dungeons & dragons. Which, though I don't post about it much here, is my biggest, biggest "fandom" ever. When it's done right, tabletop rpg games are just incredible.
The point is, I used to know this guy. But he left our school when he was 16 and did sixth form someplace else. But I used to know him. Indirectly, his influence got me friends who didn't treat me like shit, helped turn me into a geek and gave me the defining interests in my life. Indirectly, without him I might not have ever met my boy.
I know, I know, this is probably true about a million people in my life. It's still weird to realise it. To look at this dude's journal and say, "Fuck, man, you're married. To someone who's either a fair bit older than you, or has smoked WAY too much crack. And your hair, while long, really doesn't suit you. But thanks for everything anyway."
It's just so...weird.
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Date: 2006-12-10 11:45 pm (UTC)Also me 'n' my bestest school friend are the only two from our old class who aren't on Friends Reunited. ::pride::
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Date: 2006-12-11 08:00 am (UTC)I used to be really paranoid about how "these are supposed to be the best years of my life, dammit, and I hate it!" until my ma pointed out to me that people who have the best years of their life in high school are pretty much doomed to a shitty adulthood. Then I felt secretly superior. Now I'm just wondering when these mythical years are going to start... ;)