Old classmates

Today I went to a barbeque at my friends' John and Andre's place. Consume quite a bit of champagne so what do I do when I get home and go on the net. Break down and visit classmates.com. I register for the Free account and checked out who else from my graduating class from Hackett High in Kalamazoo are registered. Not that many and a number of whom whose names I haven't thought of since I graduated. I've no desire to contact anyone on the list. I wonder if any of them will contact me? I doubt it. Last time I've heard from anyone in High School was back in 2002 or so. The woman whose locker was next to mine senior year sent me a letter via my parents. It was nice to hear from her, but it was apparent she was quite lonely and was in some sort of restarting her life stage ( I can relate!). I can't help but think that she might have been boyfriend hunting, though that could just be my ego. I wrote back--told her I was gay. She replied, but I can sense she was surprised and let down, though she was decent about it. I never wrote back. I've never been too sentimental about my past, especially my growing up years in Kalamazoo Michigan. The years certainly shaped me, but from the age of 11 onward, it was a very isolating time, and in some respects I've never really bounced back from those years.

Well better wrap this up, the champagne is making me melancholoy. Going to finish up Foster Hirsch's biography of Otto Preminger.