something made me pull out the ol' high school yearbook tonight and this is the only personal comment ive read written by the only person with the gall and good sense to call me an asshole to my face. heres what she wrote.

Dave,

This year English was especially memorable because of Mr. D'Ambra asking you what you thought of the books. You never read them - classic! You were an inspiration to us all in Bio because of your scholarly conduct. I hope you find nice people in college to help you with your homework.

Love,

Liz

unfortunately she didnt quite remember the english episode correctly. the teacher asked me if i would ever buy a book of poetry and i said "no." he asked me why not, and i said because i would never read it. got one of my biggest laughs in high school from that snarky retort. but she was dead on about the homework. i had a habit of not doing it and then copying it off whoever i could cajole into giving me theirs. so you can imagine some of the more academically competitive kids were not all that happy with my efforts, or lack thereof. but she was right. i did kick ass in biology. that was the highpoint of my high school academic career. i was even on the bio team!