fortysomething's Friday Four

[sugarplumkitty]

1. What was your favorite subject in high school (if any)? Choir.

2. Do you still have your senior ring? Nope. It fell off my nightstand into the furnace and my mom had the furnace cleaned without telling me. It's gone.

3. What was your favorite club or activity in high school? Drama.

4. Was high school a fun time for you? It was prison with the "hard chicks" who had it in for me spiking the volleyball at my glasses all the time in PE and giving me looks that would kill. It was heartbreaking because the only boy I liked wasn't interested in me that way and the ones who were interested were all disgusting to me. It was a joy being in choir, chamber choir, drama, and stage crew; running lights for shows, setting up and running sound for lunch and events, using my dad's power tools without his knowledge (he thought the head of stage crew was using them-haha).

Comments

[gladtobehere.livejournal.com]

i SO understand the High School thing. it was NOT cool being different. sounds like a full and complete time for you though.

LOL about dads power tools... HA

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

What's funnier about my dad trusting his power tools to the head of stage crew (who was that unrequited love) is that he later transformed into a woman. We are still friends.

[gladtobehere.livejournal.com]

oh my goodness... what a marvelous twist! is there a post forthcoming on this...adventure and subsequent 'transformation' ?

what a journey you have been on....

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I will post about it. Her transformation is her story to tell or not to tell. Most people who meet her never know she was ever male.

Maybe as a private post. It's old news. The trauma and self questioning I went through are long past.

But then, she was in the Washington DC newspaper recently as part of a Gay/Lesbian/Transgender activist group. She was very private about it at first. Since she's now going public maybe it's ok to share my insignificant side of the story.

[gladtobehere.livejournal.com]

well... to me, that you stayed her friend through it all... makes you quite significant...imho

pretty big of you actually

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

Does it? Maybe it does. I noticed how many of our mutual crowd from high school look disgusted and walk away when her name is mentioned.

My friendship is with the person. Externals never have played a major factor in my choice of friends, so why would it matter if they change a bit? The inside person is the same.