Hello Mighty Pioneers! Janalee got in touch with me and said that the blog had a place for my slightly warped outlook. So let's get into it. After my four years of exposure to folks like "G." Smith (Drama), Mrs. Otto (Biology) and Bro. Hill (Seminary) my psyche was sufficiently twisted that I went and joined the U.S Army and served with a National Guard hospital unit until it was disbanded. I served an LDS mission in the Phillipines where I got to meet folks who thought I was insanely wealthy because I grew up in a house with air conditioning. I came back and got into EMS, running with a couple ambulance companies picking up what was left of people that had backed a four wheeler in front of a semi, shot themselves full of exotic and illegal substances, or just shot themselves. A couple of interesting encounters with psychotic and/or chemically impaired individuals convinced me of the need to get some self-defense skills so I got into American Kenpo and have been studying/teaching this style for 13 years now. I got married and am privileged to have four (wonderful, beautiful, exceptional, exasperating etc.) kids, although things are not working out for their Mom and I and we are currently in the process of divorce. I have'nt had the time to really keep pursuing theater, but I still feel the need to perform, so I got with a bagpipe band for a time and am now with a Taiko (Japanese drum) group.
So I'm excited for the reunion, although it's a little freaky trying to wrap my mind around 20(aaghh)years. Janalee seems to have been able to keep pretty good track of several of our classmates, i've heard some exciting things about what they've done with their lives. I could have tried harder to keep my connections to you guys open, really should have, we move on and make our lives, but we still hold these reunions in acknowledgement that for those four years the most important people in our lives tend to be our classmates. So let's get a little excited, get the word out and see if we can't challenge some more of our friends to come and post here. I'd like to re-establish some of those connections and I don't want to have to wait clear till reunion night.
