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Jana Remy

  • Writing
    • Disability
    • Making History
    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
    • Canoeing
    • Creative Nonfiction & Essays
    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
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if this is you

if this is you…

written by Jana October 15, 2007

If you are sitting in your rocking chair, reeling just a bit because this weekend has just flown by…and yet you can’t help but smirk when you think about your interaction at the Farmer’s Market yesterday. There you saw an FFA club from your high school selling pumpkins. You told them that Bakersfield High School was your alma mater and bantered a bit, reminiscing about the campus (Once a Driller, Always a Driller). One of the ‘cooler’ young boys that was lounging in the back said, ‘I doubt it was that long ago, was it?’ Well, if this is you, you really enjoyed seeing his jaw drop when you told him that you were class of ’89. And you smiled a bit his reply:
“Wow, um, yah, that really was a long time ago….”

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Carolee October 15, 2007 - 7:56 am

Last week I was subbing for the art teacher at the American International School here in Lagos and as they were doing their assignment, several Israeli girls were talking in Hebrew. I told them that I had a wonderful visit to their country when I was in college in 1978. One girl’s jaw dropped and she she stared at me, stunned and said in a hushed voice “it can’t be possible.” I like to think that she didn’t think by looking at me that it was possible that I was that old. I’m sure for her 1978 is ancient history.

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john.white October 15, 2007 - 8:01 pm

Two weeks ago, after dancing with a girl, she said, “Thank you, sir.“

It was devastating.

I’m thinking about changing my facebook birthday to 1981.

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daisies October 22, 2007 - 7:16 pm

tee hee .. congratulations :)

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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