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Fond Memories

Jenny Meyerhoff writes novels for children and teenagers.

Author of Class B.U.R.P., Attack of the Girlzillaz, Green Thumbs-Up!, Pumpkin Spice, Project Peep, Sweet Peas and Honeybees, Starry Skies and Fireflies, A Squirmy, Wormy Surprise, Playin Cupid, Third Grady Baby, Queen of Secrets, Sami's Sleepaway Summer, and The Barftastic Life of Louie Burger.

Fond Memories

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So, I’ve been thinking a lot about high school lately. (Because who doesn’t like to remember those years? ; ))
Here are some random moments–most embarrassing, but not all embarrassing to me.

1. Mr. Hazenthal blew his nose and left a snot hanging there for the rest of the class period. No one told him.
2. In Forensics I had to recite (with feeling) a poem by Sylvia Plath. My teacher wanted me to say the line “pushing the enemas out like ice cream” with a grunt. I couldn’t do it, but that line has never left me.
3. I baked a pie for a boy I liked. I went to high school in the eighties for crying out loud, not the fifties. Baked a pie! What was I thinking?
4. I wore mainly skirts and dresses and really wild printed tights. Yeah, someone needed to give me a fashion clue.

And yet, even with all that, high school is still an age I love to write and read about. There is just something so powerful about that transistion time between childhood and adulthood.

And appropos of nothing…I joined the class of 2k8. Let me tell you, there are going to be some pretty amazing books out there in 2008. Get ready!

Jenny


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Comments

  1. I love random high school moments! And there are so many of them. Sounds like you’re an 80’s girl also. I will definitely have to think about some of my funnier ones. Especially with my 20 year reunion this year.
    And the line from the poem … people write stuff like that in poems? It’s a far cry from “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree.”

    What kind of pie was it?

  2. Love these memories, Jenny!! What I remember most about high school was wanting to get out. The middle school and high school years were angst-filled for me, but for some reason, I can laugh more at the middle school drama. Maybe that’s why I like to write for that age group.
    Inquiring minds want to know more about the pie incident! How did your crush react?

  3. Was there a secret message inside the pie? That could make your high school self a little cooler.

    I’m going to have a lot of new books on my shelf come 2008!

  4. Oh… the pie! (hides face, cringes)

    It was an apple pie, and it was darn good. We each had a slice while watching the soap opera Santa Barbara after school. (That was the best soap ever! Does anyone even remember it anymore?)

    And as for the boy…never more than a friend. Alas!

  5. Oh… the pie! (hides face, cringes)

    It was an apple pie, and it was darn good. We each had a slice while watching the soap opera Santa Barbara after school. (That was the best soap ever! Does anyone even remember it anymore?)

    And as for the boy…never more than a friend. Alas!