- That little redhead boy named James. I had such a big crush on him! He had a Metallic shirt in the second grade.
- Playing "Around the World" for math. Mikey Mauer and I always won.
- The 6th grade performance of that western play. They cast me as a Native American girl and I sang "The White Man is Coming." Talk about sowing the seeds of early racial shame.
- Making tamales with Stephanie's Mexican family. They always made fun of me.
- The day I left my homework in my dad's car. He drove all the way back to bring it to me before the bell rang.
- Riding my bike to Taco Bell after school. Getting kicked out for starting food fights.
- Semi-permanent hair dye.
- Awards assemblies.
- The boy named Andrew. We had braces at the same time and sang Green Day songs together during class.
- The Sky Hawk pose from my Mr.Copaserio. He also cringed when I told him my favorite band was the B-52's.
- The day I staged a small rebellion against the policy of lunch time detention.
- Watching MTV2 with my dad late at night, back in the day when they played only the rejected music videos that MTV wouldn't touch. That's how I first heard Sleater-Kinney!
oct 6 2007 ∞
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