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I really need to sort this health insurance and the lack thereof issue out.
I think I'll have a last-minute wibble about whether or not to attend my reunion this weekend. $40 seems rather steep, considering that I only have confirmation that one person will be there that I want to talk to, and I have a reasonable idea that there will be a hundred and five other people (according to classmates) who will stand around and shriek (in the case of the girls) how GOOD it is to SEE you, and OMG WHAT have you been DOING, or grunt (in the case of the boys), essentially the same thing but without the high-pitched noises.
Come to think of it, I could subscribe to classmates for less money than that and get the email of the person I would like to talk to.
But not to be outdone by the negative, the positive says I can go there and really just kind of be very, very cuttingly cruel to people. And I have no idea if other people that I want to see will be there. Or if other people that I don't want to see but wouldn't mind lording it over will be there. And the positive also points out that this will require a shopping trip because I at the least need a new shirt.
Nice-casual, jeans are appropriate. Too bad it's fucking August. I have Ideas, but they require a drop of about twenty degrees in the temperature.
So I'm probably looking at $80 to attend the bloody thing, half for the ticket and half for the shirt and that doesn't include that I really do need new hoop earrings, but I'm not buying them especially for this because my hoop earrings that I wear every day are de-chroming. $20 for the emergency bottle of booze for after, either to smack someone with (more likely) or get drunk and be miserable with (less likely). I can't imagine that anyone I went to school with could be doing something that I'd envy them for, since I've heard no reports that anyone has started a dictatorship. 2 hours of overall effort to pull off nice-casual with that extra edge of tbd at the time (this, this is conclusive proof that I don't have a dick, right there, take note).
Currently, I am looking for the priceless part. Would it be telling the overachievers that I went to England? Telling the geeks I work at WotC? Shattering a wineglass on the floor in a fit of pique, thirty minutes into the thing and leaving dramatically? Making up outrageous lies about my life and accomplishments, ten years post HS? Wearing glitter and clothing that would generally be more appropriate to someone still in HS (I do this on a daily basis)? Finding out that everyone who was supposed to do such wonderful things is now, for example, a podiatrist with a degree from Pedro's Casa of Feet?
Yes, I am in search of the elusive "priceless" moment.
I'm half tempted to try to find someone to go with, but the pool of actual humans I know is small. But it would be hilarious to tell everyone that my companion is a convicted felon/part of the documentary crew/a rentboy or hooker that I picked up for the night when I got some heroin/violating a restraining order/Swiss/heir to the throne of Ireland when the monarchy is restored/other.
Now I'm getting ideas.
Come to think of it, I could subscribe to classmates for less money than that and get the email of the person I would like to talk to.
But not to be outdone by the negative, the positive says I can go there and really just kind of be very, very cuttingly cruel to people. And I have no idea if other people that I want to see will be there. Or if other people that I don't want to see but wouldn't mind lording it over will be there. And the positive also points out that this will require a shopping trip because I at the least need a new shirt.
Nice-casual, jeans are appropriate. Too bad it's fucking August. I have Ideas, but they require a drop of about twenty degrees in the temperature.
So I'm probably looking at $80 to attend the bloody thing, half for the ticket and half for the shirt and that doesn't include that I really do need new hoop earrings, but I'm not buying them especially for this because my hoop earrings that I wear every day are de-chroming. $20 for the emergency bottle of booze for after, either to smack someone with (more likely) or get drunk and be miserable with (less likely). I can't imagine that anyone I went to school with could be doing something that I'd envy them for, since I've heard no reports that anyone has started a dictatorship. 2 hours of overall effort to pull off nice-casual with that extra edge of tbd at the time (this, this is conclusive proof that I don't have a dick, right there, take note).
Currently, I am looking for the priceless part. Would it be telling the overachievers that I went to England? Telling the geeks I work at WotC? Shattering a wineglass on the floor in a fit of pique, thirty minutes into the thing and leaving dramatically? Making up outrageous lies about my life and accomplishments, ten years post HS? Wearing glitter and clothing that would generally be more appropriate to someone still in HS (I do this on a daily basis)? Finding out that everyone who was supposed to do such wonderful things is now, for example, a podiatrist with a degree from Pedro's Casa of Feet?
Yes, I am in search of the elusive "priceless" moment.
I'm half tempted to try to find someone to go with, but the pool of actual humans I know is small. But it would be hilarious to tell everyone that my companion is a convicted felon/part of the documentary crew/a rentboy or hooker that I picked up for the night when I got some heroin/violating a restraining order/Swiss/heir to the throne of Ireland when the monarchy is restored/other.
Now I'm getting ideas.
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