Tonight i have my 10 year high school reunion and i'm kind of dreading it. If you don't already know this about me, I hate small talk. I'm just not good at it... And I feel like this reunion is going to be a night of small talk. A night of telling people who in most cases I haven't seen in ten years about what those years have been like... in 25 words or less. What fun!
Having said that, i guess i am interested in what a few of them have been up to, I'm sure there will be some great stories and many adventures to share (some of them mine), so hopefully it will be a night to catch up on the fun things, not a night to revisit the cliquey smugness of my private girls school education.
In the same day that the last ten years caught up with me i had another blast from the past, which is the reason i'm writing. My early teenage years were spent doing a lot of reading... I did a lot of other things (under 13s basketball with the Waverley Raiders to name just one highlight) but reading was definitely up there. And there was one series which i remember the most. I was obsessed with them and wanted to live their lives (elizabeth, not jessica), and that was the Sweet Valley series.
There was Sweet Valley Twins, Sweet Valley High, and Sweet Valley University. And this morning I discovered (thanks People.com on twitter) that now, years after they finished releasing them, there is going to be another book - Sweet Valley Confidential! Am too excited.
Interesting timing though... I'm realising that these 10 years which have come and gone since leaving high school have been incredible, and I wouldn't take back any of them (not yet anyway), and even if the five girls under 26 in my team don't even know who Elizabeth and Jessica are (WTF!), the main thing is that i'm old enough to know cool stuff like this. And i'm totally happy with that.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20435286,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
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