i was a pudgy, depressed, cranky teenager. my fellow students had a WONDERFUL array of nicknames for me from middle school until the day i graduated... just thinking about it gives me the willies. blech.
... now, at 26, i'm in my cute, happy days, awesome prime. what were you like in high school?
those ruled. haha. I wore those too - AND I WAS ALREADY GRADUATED! cos i'm super lame like that.
I, too, rocked the flannel shirts. I had a short, chin-length haircut with a "padawan" braid on the side of my head instead of the back - right by my ear. It was super long. I also wore rings with eyeballs in them. And black greasy doc martins. Constantly.
I just want to say if a girl like that had gone to my high school I would have exploded with joy. I was a super nerd.. Crummy glassy, lousy clothes (sorry mom), nerdy disposition, loved computers. Had very few friends, though I was blessed with several very good ones who liked me despite my nerdiness. So I think what i'm getting at, awkwardness of school aside, I think its cool that you were the nerd you were.
mens jeans, tie-dye shirts (or black, there was no medium), sported kitty cat ears for awhile (also a black newsboy hat), a dragonball z backpack which always contained some form of a sketchbook. i went to vo-tech for commercial art so i was the lowest of the low on the totem pole but that also meant that my friends were just as dorky as i was so it was ok.
i was always happy and a complete goof... not too far off from now.
I was pretty much like I am now, though 30 lbs lighter at the beginning of high school (lost most of it the summer before 9th woohoo) Socially awkward, though I had some friends and was friendly with enough people that high school as a whole really wasn't horrible.
Well, I only graduated June of '07(haha) and so I haven't changed much but really, I went to a catholic school for four years. The only thing unique about me was my hair, which wasn't unique at all. LAME. =\
And when I didn't have to wear my uniform I wore jeans, a cami, and a sweatshirt. Also, pretty chubby but finally am finding motivation to lose that =]
I was one of the lucky ones to have gotten along with everyone. I had a close circle of friends but mostly I talked to everyone.
Revisiting high school is scary. ANd you came out alive!
In high school I was extremely shy and quiet (that's changed maybe a little.) and wore t shirts and jackets, nothing to hug my (lack of a) frame...straight leg jeans, carried a star wars book with me wherever i was, and a notebook for writing. My hair was about down to my butt and was usually tied up. I think more towards my senior year I started letting it down.
I was a scrawny late bloomer, so I was pretty much a stick. A short stick with really long poofy curly hair. Hiding under baggy clothes. I'm still something closely resembling a stick, but at least I don't care what I look like as much that I can actually wear clothes I actually like!
Oh, I also got glasses in high school, and remember one of my friends telling me, "Didn't you always have glasses?" She paid attention so well. :)
Your drawing reminds me a lot of me as a teen - except I was the last to get boobs, and I was (and kinda am) awkwardly skinny. Not that I don't eat. Because I am always eating.
And I definitely rocked the flannel shirts too. I still have a few that I wear when I get in that annoyed, depressed, teenmood. I had the sketchbook, and the glasses I expertly glared over should anyone come my way. Oh, high school!
For the first three years of high school I was ridiculed for being different. I was in plays, I hated sports. The jocks beat me up. Most of the time, I just screwed around at home on my guitar.
Then I started a rock & roll band, and got a leather jacket. Senior year was the best year of my life. Even though there were still those that berated me, I looked good, I had a hot girlfriend, and my band was both fun and excellent. We called ourselves "The 3rd 1/2" because we were outcasts. There was the jock/preppy half of school, then there was the stoner/jellie half of school...then there was us...The Third Half.
Now I'm 38, way past my prime, way beyond chubby, and still just as nerdy as I was as a kid.
All my horrible years were in Junior High. High School was great.
I generally wore a superman shirt of some form, with a blazer and some jeans. I was in some plays, met my wife, found all the guys who are still my best friends a decade later. Good times!
According to my husband, I was "HAWT" in high school, 'cuz that's when he met me. I think he's biased. :)
Had shoulder length hair, always dyed red. Different varying shades of red during high school, but always red (because I wasn't allowed to dye it BLACK). Wore at least five to six necklaces, rings on every finger, multiple bracelets, different weird color of nail polish every day, and of course, I was a little goth wannabe. So dark makeup, mostly black wardrobe, black combat boots, and I carried an Eastpak backpack covered in my favorite bands written in White Out. I still own this backpack.
If you ask anyone in my class about me, they will remember the red hair and the "snakes", because I wore these fantabulous gold vinyl snakeprint pants and this awesome cobra armband all the time.
I was about the same... we so woulda hung out. my music shirt woulda been smashing pumpkins, korn, or manson too.. geezus. add some eyeliner and a ring on every finger, and that's highschool me. :P
i dyed my hair black, wore all black and spent all my free time sighing over musicians and painting.i was pretty much an artsy geek. i graduated in 1987 and i think the closest i came to a John Hughes character was Duckie in Pretty in Pink personality wise. my favorite band was The Smiths and i was known for painting a huge mural of The Beatles in out common room.
Oh man does that sound familar. I graduated in '86 and had the BIG frizzy messy hair w/lots o'gel and hairspray. Also ran (unsuccessfully) after musicians and was the cartoonist for my school paper. I also was a Person In Black but I actually was more of a metal head than a goth. I guess I was a bit confused since arty types don't listen to Led Zeppelin (or do they)?
oh, trust me, we artsy folks totally dug Led Zep - that's how i fell in love with drumming! :) well, i can't speak for all the arty folk but many of the people i knew had the appreciation for all types of music. i think my top 5 bands back then were the smiths, led zep, rush, oingo boingo and rem. i also did a cartoon for my school paper! rock! by the way - LOVE that icon!
Oh man, that's super-adorable. Like a sad panda. It's half-high school you, and half-cute drawing style, but in that picture you are a super-woobie-ish.
Oh god don't get me started. Where do you think i got this username? I wore nylon-esque and sometimes elastic-fitted shorts, stuck to probably 2 pairs of jeans (the only pair i owned for my entire highschool career) and hovered between giant scarves and performance fleeces. I was a fashion disaster. Still am, but it's improved and now i just consider my self a casually mis-informed person with semi-good taste in clothes.
And i rocked those flannels too. Up and down the hallways. Geeze!
You looked just like the kinda girl I liked to date in High School. I even remember buying Star Wars comics for one of my girlfriend's birthday. I aways chose nerdy over anything else. My biggest turn on was a girl in glasses, it was a mandatory requirement for all my girlfriends .
I was around 100 lbs and wore various Metallica, Misfits and Hawaiian shirts. Oh and I had this Brak shirt (from Space Ghost) I wore all the time too. I also hadn't discovered the joy of wearing black plastic frame 'nerd glasses' yet. I was just wearing boring wire frames.
i pretty much wore that exact same outfit in high school. But my hair was short and my music shirt was country--most likely Wynonna or Brooks n Dunn. Big Flannel Shirts FTW!
I graduated in '97, at the height of the grunge thing. Flanels, huge t-shirts, glasses that covered my face. I had super thick Xena type bangs. When I didn't have my nose in some sci-fi/fantasy book, I was playing cello in one of any four orchestras I was a part of. Or dorkestra as it was called at my school. I was a religious X-Files fan and had a number of t-shirts related to the show. I was a pro at making myself invisible to avoid getting picked on. It worked about 85% of the time.
Flannel shirt? I would have had the biggest crush on you.
I was practically invisible in high school. If anybody noticed me, they saw a geek: Straight-A's in math, B's in English and other stuff because I didn't care. Quiet. Painfully shy.* No dates, ever. No discernable coolness factor.
However, I actually lettered in HS--for keeping stats for the basketball team for four years. Geek City, huh? (BTW, this is early 70's, kids. Everything by hand.) Got a certificate with my letter with "Keith" printed as my first name. My name is Mark. Ah, the glory. I told you I was invisible!
Needless to say, I'm not interested in the reunions.
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