I went through middle school and high school in a strange town. It didn't feel strange at the time. It looked and felt like other well-to-do Massachusetts, well-to-do but not as tony as the old money towns with their obsessive academics and strict zoning rules. We were small-time enough that when Wendy's opened up sophomore year, it became the coolest place to hang out for years. And yet, it was a school where, at least when I was there, no smart kid was ever picked on (probably because we were so cool), there was no identifiable 'popular clique' (according to Nish, there were the "good preppy kids" and "the preppy kids who actually did things" and no one thought either was something to strive toward) and where the greatest slackers I knew also had the highest GPAs.
(on stalking people from high school on facebook)
Moi: He has two kids... and is politically conservative.
Chels: Whoa. Politically conservative!?
Moi: I did not expect that. We always had the Jesus thing in common, but I thought his weird friends would have rubbed off on him.
Chels: Weird friends, yes. But [our town] is kind of yuppy.
Moi: I keep forgetting that because of our weird friends. We had an Animal Rights League. (of which I may have been vice president, at least according to college applications)
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