Questions:

1) Who was your favorite teacher, ever, during your grade school years (before college, after pre-school)? Tie between Mrs. Ohman, the 4th grade teacher who kept hamsters in the classroom, read to us from The Book of Three each day, and re-enacted at a local Colonial farm/historic park, and Mr. Bloch, my keyboarding teacher, who taught me how to cheat when flipping a coin, how to open a computer with a paperclip, all about the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and who I talked with every day before school started for fifteen minutes during my 8th grade year.


2) What was your favorite grade (3rd, 8th, 11th, pick a feature) 4th and 9th grade. 4th because Mrs. Ohman kicked ass, 9th because I had a lot of fun in the second half.

Were you ever very popular? Only within certain circles. In the groups I hung out with, yes, during High School only. Otherwise, no.

4) Were you ever very UN-popular? All the time.

5) Get in a lot of fights on the playground/in the Halls? Yes, pretty consistently throughout my childhood. None that were very serious, though. I think the most anyone ever got (myself included) was a bloody lip.

6) What kind of clique-groups were you in? Nerds, jocks, freaks, preppies, whatever. Nerds when I was younger. By the time I was in 8th grade, however, I started hanging out with what I guess would be considered the "freak".

7) What was your favorite class or course that you ever took? Art, 9th grade. Dr. Munn was a great guy, and I had a lot of fun sculpting and making art ouf of styrofoam cafeteria trays. I used to pour big gobs of different color paints onto the trays (I would sometimes use other substances too, like glue or water or ink) and swirl them around in certain patterns. Dr. Munn always said he liked my art, but I was probably the single most expensive student he'd ever had. (on top of my many clay creations, the "Cafeteria art" used copious amounts of acryllic paint.)

8) What was your favorite main course (Math, english, history/civics, or science)? History, actually. I found it both easy, like English, and fun, like Science. Unlike Math, which was neither of those things. So in otherwords, run-down;

Math: Hard/Unfun
English: Easy/Unfun
Science: Hard/Fun
History: Easy/Fun

9) What was your least favorite course that you took? Health Class, followed closed behind by Math.

10) Ever get suspended? How many times? About twelve times. Seven of which were in my 9th grade year.

11) Ever get expelled/sent to some Hellish pseudo-school where they put bars on the windows? No, which is amazing, since that's where most of my friends ended up. I somehow escaped Quander.

12) Do you remember any of your nurses? And what about them do you remember? I remember Mrs. Bertucci vaguely, who was a fairly nice Brooklyn lady from Middle School. The one I really remember, though, was Mrs. Kathleen, who was a 70-something old Irish-woman when I was in 3rd grade. She gave me my very first copy of the Hobbit, which really kick-started my love of reading.

1 Janitors? Mr. Walker. Used to have some great conversations with him in elementary school. Can't remember what about though. He was a great person, I really liked him.

14) Lunch-people? Not really, now that I think about it.

15) Bus-drivers? I remember the best driver I've ever known was my bus-driver the year I repeated 8th grade. A big, bald, Carribean guy with a ridiculously thick accent named John. I had a 30-minute bus ride to school due to a number of factors, so we had some interesting conversations. He was an awesome driver though, maneuvered that bus through some pretty narrow streets and sharp turns.

16) Guidance Counselers? Several, but the only one I can remember the name of was Dr. Min, who was actually English but married a Chinese guy. She was quite cool though. There was another guy who told me about civil disobedience and the like, and this one lady in high school who gave me a new quote she thought I would like each week. I liked both of them, but I can't remember the damned names.

17) Principals? Only ones I remember that I liked was Mrs. Brown, a really nice, intelligent mulatto lady from my elementary school, and Mrs. Kauffman, a very nice Jewish lady who showed me her rock collection a few times and always smelled like vanilla coffee.

18) Librarians? A middle-aged Italian lady named Mrs. M because none of us could pronounce her actual name. She was my librarian for seven years, and as I was a pretty avid reader, we got to know each other well. I actually ended up annoying her greatly a few times, but we generally got along. Once I got this "Librarian for a day" thing at a school fund-raiser, so we spent the day together cataloguing books. I got to check books out and ready to a bunch of 1st-graders.

19) What did you think you would do with your life when you were six? No idea.

20) Nine? Fashion designer.

21) Twelve? Chef.

22) Fifteen? Leader of the People's Resistance.

2 Eighteen? Chef and/or proffessional martial artist.

24) Ever come to school dressed up for Halloween? All the time. Once I was a zombie.

25) Every bring a weapon to school? And get caught?) I once accidentally brought a steak knife to school. That was the first time I ever got suspended.

26) Drugs? Alchohol? Cigarettes? No, no, and no.

27) Who was your best friend in school when you were 6? Lauren, who I'll go into later. Also a kid named Josh who moved to Arizona or Colorado or somewhere the next year. Second was a kid named Franco, who was actually two years older than me but cool anyway. I remember we went to the movie theatres together with our parents to see some movie about a guy during WWII who had a rocket pack on his back.

28) 9? Lauren Davies, a very cool girl that I used to go exploring with in the neighborhood woods and streams afterschool. Also Adam Weissman, a very intelligent but shy and insecure kid.

29) 12? Adam, Lauren again. I had a couple other friends in my school, but those weren't real tight.

30) 15? Germaine, a short Puerto Rican kid who wanted to grow up to be a mortician. Next year I was in a totally different area schoolwise, and my best friends then would've been Rachel, who's actual name was Jesse, and was probably the most intelligent person I've ever known, and the Moon Goddess, who's actual name was Stephanie, probably the weirdest person I've ever known. Loved 'em both.

31) 18? Home-schooled, so don't have any school-related friends. Best friends in general would be Dara Green, especially since she's the only one of my friends who didn't go to some God-forsaken college in another state, and thus the only one I can still hang out with.

32) What other friends do you remember as being good friends? Grace, Braque, J.C., Robbie Callaway, Derek, Sean, Paige, Chris "Sing the Chris Song", Mark, Jimmy, Tiffany, Hailley Gillmore, Chris "the Dark One", Ryan, Russel Silver, Kaman, Cassie, Sharon, Jackie, Eddie, Stephen, Sheldon, Duncan Green, Danielle, Mandy, Jenna, Alex, Seth, and of course, Evan Horowitz.

3 What kids made fun of you, or attacked you? Justin Peters, Christen Burke. The two great enemies of my childhood. Christen wasn't as bad simply because she went to a different Middle School, so I had to deal with her only for seven years. Justin I had to put up with for ten.

34) What teachers do you remember as being helpful and friendly? Aside from ones already mentioned, Mr. Biglesworth, who taught me basic guitar, Mrs. Miles, who taught me grammar, Mr. Cornelius, who taught me how to throw a shotput despite not being my gym teacher, and Mr. Penny, my gym teacher of seven years who was always, always, always nice, making him the oddest gym teacher in existence. And Mrs. Rust, Mrs. Roach-Buchannan, Mrs. Lawrence and Mr Hughes, and Mr. Scango, Dyzak, and Read. Also Mrs. Lucas.

35) Which teachers do you remember as being heinous demons from Hell? Mrs. Dahmer, who tortured kids who didn't do their homework, Mrs. what'shername, the horrible smelling bitchy keyboarding teacher, and Mrs. Lucas. Yes, the same Mrs. Lucas.

36) Last question. Macaroni art? No, colored tisssue paper and cafeteria art.