So I went to my 30-year highschool reunion final month.
Earlier than I discuss how that went, I wish to say that this simply doesn’t appear attainable. I insist that I’m not sufficiently old to be going to my highschool reunion. It’s unfathomable that it’s been three a long time since I accepted my diploma and walked throughout the Lawlor Occasions Heart stage as a part of the Wooster Excessive College class of 1993.
Yeah, yeah, I do know the maths checks out. I don’t wish to hear it.
Anyway … once I first noticed the reunion announcement on Fb a number of months in the past, I instantly determined to go. It appeared prefer it’d be enjoyable to have a cocktail and do some reminiscing. The reunion itself was easy sufficient—a no-cover night occasion at a brewery. Certain, why not?
However because the reunion date approached, I started having second ideas.
Three a long time is a very long time—one-third of a human lifetime (assuming issues go effectively). Clearly, we’ve all modified—and Reno has definitely modified. For these of us within the class of 1993, Wooster was the southernmost highschool within the Truckee Meadows; college students as far south as Washoe Valley had been bused up all the way in which to Plumb Lane. Again then, the freeway ended at South Virginia Road, close to the pink Scolari’s, and there was virtually nothing within the swampy fields east of Virginia Road and south of what’s now South Meadows Parkway. It was throughout our senior 12 months when Galena Excessive College opened for freshmen, sophomores and juniors.
After we graduated, Invoice Clinton was within the first months of his presidency. “That’s the Method Love Goes” by Janet Jackson was the No. 1 track. This newspaper didn’t even exist but; the primary Nevada Weekly hit the streets in November 1993.
So, yeah … I hadn’t seen most people who had been going to be at that reunion since that was our world. Awkwardness was inevitable. Plus, I found that the brewery the place the reunion was going to be held doesn’t even have bourbon, simply beer. Unacceptable.
After all, I wound up going to the reunion. When the hubby and I walked into Imbib Brewery on Second Road a number of minutes after the 7 p.m. Saturday begin time, I used to be apprehensive. I made a beeline for one of many few actually acquainted faces, that being the face of Missy, a buddy I’ve stored in contact with for many of the final 30 years, if not the final a number of. (Damned pandemic.) We chatted for a bit; I grabbed a beer (thanks, Nick, for getting!); and I started to mingle.
And far to my shock, I began having fun with myself.
I had a beautiful chat in regards to the provide chain with Jin, who’s now one thing of a bigwig at Google. I had an ideal dialog with Trent, my former elementary college greatest buddy (and distant cousin, a number of instances eliminated). I realized about life in Antarctica by way of Amy, who has the excellence of being the primary individual to ever have COVID-19 on the South Pole. I made tentative plans to get along with Missy later this summer season.
We left effectively earlier than the scheduled finish time, as a result of we had an early morning flight—and I used to be truly slightly unhappy that we needed to depart early.
Nicolette, the classmate who organized the gathering, later commented on social media that we’d undoubtedly reconvene in 5 years for our thirty fifth. The lord prepared, I’ll be there—though as a lot as I really like Imbib, I’ll request that we’ve got it at a venue that serves bourbon.