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[apocalypsos]

You know, talking about the reunion seriously put a weird mental image in my head of just the difference between me now and me then. I can't decide what my teenage self would flip out about first if she saw me now -- that I'm not wearing such dorky clothes anymore, that my skin isn't some kind of perpetual train wreck, that I grew out my hair, or that I have tattoos, emphasis on the plural.

No, the tattoos. Definitely the tattoos.

Okay, and also the virgin thing.

EDIT: There's a special on ABC News about North Carolina barbecue. MMMMMMMM. ME WANT. *could go for some barbecue yesterday*

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[schtroumph-c.livejournal.com]

I just had a image of you dancing like Piper in her school reunion. Very fun :D

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I think I turned out more like Paige. A grungy slacker in high school, kinda cute towards the end. ;)

[missmarch.livejournal.com]

Barbecue, yum. I wish I had some right now. So, which kind of NC barbecue do you prefer? Eastern or Western?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

From the sounds of it, I'd probably like Western better. Not that I've ever had either, but mmmmm, ketchup in the sauce sounds yummy. (Western was the one with the ketchup, right?)

[missmarch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the western half of the state uses ketchup. I'm an eastern girl myself, and there's nothing I love better in the world. Plus, vinegar doesn't overpower the smoky flavor of pork.

I figured you had tried some, by your post. Well, I highly recommend it if you're ever down this way.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love barbecue, so I might not have tried it, but by God, I can imagine exactly what it'll taste like. Mmmmmm. ;)

[thesumo.livejournal.com]

Our high school band boosters like making barbecue (Western I suppose :p) with Cheerwine in the sauce. Definitely a NC thing.

[akacat]

Ooh! That sounds good.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Heee, I had barbeque today.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

The virgin thing??

Other tattoos?

OK, I know that I'm mostly a lurker here, but wanna knnnnnoowwww!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, when I was a teenager, you couldn't have paid me a million dollars to get a tattoo ... or drink, or smoke pot, or do any kinds of drugs. I was kind of a weenie like that. If you'd told me back then that I'd be going to my ten-year reunion with four tattoos, she'd freak out at the thought of the needlework.

You also couldn't have gotten me to have sex back then, because I was so uptight I wanted to wait until marriage, but I think even teenage me would be disheartened to learn I'm still a virgin.

Poor teenage me. She really needed to get out more. ;)

[boozinjoebubala.livejournal.com]

you're still a virgin? jesus. you waiting for Hugh Jackman to become available? obviously it's by choice... I lost my virginity the day after I quit playing Dungeons and Dragons. Maybe one thing has nothing to do with the other, but...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, so far in my life, I've come across two types of guys -- slimy schmucks who can't take no for an answer, or nice, sweet guys who have no interest in me whatsoever. And the few exceptions to the rule have done annoying things like move to Utica. Trust me, it's not entirely by choice but just bad luck most of the time.

[aberrantangels]

I have interest in meeting you sometime. I hope I'd come across as the nice, sweet guy I think I am, and I hope even more that I'd actually be that guy.

[pastaqueen.livejournal.com]

I hope I lose my virginity before my high school reunion, though I'd better step up the pace here because I've got just under 3 years left. Hey, maybe I could lose my virginity at my high school reunion! Er, maybe not.

Teenage me needed to get out more too.

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

We do have excellent barbeque down here. :)

As for differences between now and high school, I think my teenage self would be freaked that I'm actually engaged.:)

[vass]

Heh. That'd make a good meme.

My teenage self would flip out at the glasses (particularly the fact that they aren't deliberately and consciously dorky,) the body size (I'm thinner than I was) and that I got my hair cut. Worse, that it's still long but that I got it cut so that it was more stylish. She'd so kill me.

If she found out how many subjects I was failing, how long I'm taking to do my course, that I'm on medication and voluntarily in therapy, well, she'd kill me twice over.

She wouldn't be fazed by the virgin thing, though. Or the pet rats, or that my flat is a mess.

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

Teenage me still needs to get out more.

Because she's still around.

The irritating straight-laced bitch.

[sagejupiter.livejournal.com]

Teenage me would hang out with me and we'd giggle over smut. I think things would just go swimmingly!

Western (Lexington Style) BBQ to me is the most excellent. I end up ruining eastern style by putting ketchup and texas pete in it to make it taste more like lexington style bbq. I am waiting to get killed at a Smithfield BBQ the next time I do it.

I didn't know the difference till I had a conversation with my Organic Chemistry professor about it in college, and I'm a friggin NATIVE!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The best part of the news story was that they had these two old guys arguing over which kind was better, and the guy arguing for the eastern version said something, "A person who would put ketchup on barbecue and give it to a child is capable of everything!" He was just so vehement of the inherent evils of ketchup, I couldn't stop giggling. ;)