High school

I’m always afraid to read Bill Dixon’s journal. I don’t read it often, but the last few times I read there, it was about bad things happening in his life. The previous entry would be fine, but the current one I click on would be about alcoholism or death or something. I’m worried it might be some quantum action from me reading that, going back over the weeks and years to set up events so that the entry I read is a bad one. So I don’t read him often. Sorry, Bill. I’m trying to make your life better.

But I just read today’s entry (I’d do a trackback thing, but I don’t know what it’s good for, or even if it’s a Good Thing™.) and good things are happening again. It’s his 2nd wedding anniversary. His wife’s too. He set up a website for his high school. Things are looking up.

. Hm.

Reading his words, we’ve had similar experiences in high school. I wasn’t much of a fan of my time there. It wasn’t fun, many of the people were dickheads, and I was very happy when I graduated. Come to think of it, high school might have spoiled my idea of education completely, since I don’t hold much value in formalised education at all now. Anyway, I am wondering about some of the people from there. I’m really only in touch with two of them: William and my high school girlfriend, Rachel (and her, only occasionally). I haven’t a clue what happened to anyone else from good ol’ David Thompson Secondary. I wonder if anyone else escaped to Australia?

What happened to all those people? I’m quite curious now. I’ve run some names through Google, but with some of them (Dave Green, for example), I just get the phone book. And no, he’s not the NTK guy. Here’s what I’ll do. I’ll put their names in this entry, and perhaps someone else also Googling them will see the names come up on this page, and will know where they are. Kind of a latent Googlism.

* Caitlyn Vernon . Yeah I had a crush on her. Looks like she’s doing something at the Falls Brook Centre now. This is not a surprise.

* Harold Feldberg . He was interesting. I’ve got to choose my words carefully here, because he fancied himself a bit of a Godfather at the school. He disappeared around year 10 or so. He lived a couple of blocks from where I did. I would see his mom driving around in this big ugly van thing they had. I think his dad had something to do with jewelry. Not much on Google there.

* David Green was paid CA$30,000 or so to attend a local university for a few years. If memory serves, he turned it down because he wanted to go somewhere else. Freak. We had a swordfight in year 12 English class.

* Michael-Don Borason and I kept in touch for a while after high school, but he stopped replying to my email. Was it something I said, Mike? He was valedictorian, and tradition states that he’s the one to organise the reunion, which is supposed to happen this year. I haven’t heard anything about it yet.

* I know I spelled Agnes Zilachowskia

’s last name incorrectly, which will not help with my Google search idea. But I put here here for completeness, since she was dating Harold since forever. She acted like Madonna.

• Spencer Wood was comic relief during Physics class. He had amazing hair, I wanted hair like that. Where is he and his hair now?* Manh-Ha Tran was a sarcastic bastard. I hope he’s still like that.* In Googling for Manh-Ha, I found Julian Fong ‘s site This is cool. Looks like he works at Pixar, and uses Moveable Type for his blog. Hah! Once a geek… Looks like he’s still in touch with Manh Ha too.* Bobbie Walkem was mentioned once before in these pages. She disappeared after year 9. Rumour had it she went to England to marry some guy. I’d love to find out what happened there, but good old Google comes up blank.* Anne Funk was one year ahead of me. She was the perfect lady, with a wonderful mischievous streak. I got her to fake an orgasm on the school PA once. That was hilarous.* Also one year ahead of me was Angela Witzke (or, wait, was it Andrea ?). Might have spelled that last name wrong too. Damn. Whip-smart, funny, attractive and German. My parents would have been so pleased. Nothing happened though, cuz I was a loser.

There are probably more people that I’m forgetting. Maybe I’ll post another one of these. If you stumble across this thingo and knew me then from school, don’t be upset your name isn’t in here. I’m blocking much of that period of my life, I think.