Evlgryn -> RE: Were you cool in school? (6/23/2007 11:06:36 PM)
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I wasn't a jock because I lettered in soccer and fencing., there are parts of the world where that would qualify....but not New Jersey in the seventies. I wasn't a head because I refused to let the quest for weed determine my friends. I was drama crew, chorus choir....not quite enough to be cool. I got a couple student government offices, but my coup for student body vice president, using the slogan of "FRICK (insert real name here)" and "Frack (second name here)" "For a change" elicited ten years of puzzled looks, until Clinton used the same slogan to win. I had some success in academics but not straight As, was known to be bright but not "wozniak, forget to wash , bright". But to be honest I was a fair size fish in a small pond and the cruel process of elimination that creates a cool kids clique, that has to be self reinforcing, where they all know who is in ,and can't afford to form relationships with anyone outside for fear of loosing their charmed status. It didn't seem a very self actualizing thing. One of my best buddies was a bookish and overweight valedictorian, and I wouldn't give him up for the social points I could gain by cutting him down in public. I spent highschool on the outside spitting in, getting laid, and not worrying a minute what the cool kids were doing. But then again a determination to lead, and an attitude of screw you all if you don't follow, might be the kernal of being dom.
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