Reunion Blues

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

For those of you who I haven't told yet, I'm a high school math 
teacher.  I've been feeling rather old this year, trying to keep up 
with my students - smarter than they are, to be sure, but old.

I went to my 10-year high school reunion this past weekend.  Ai ai ai.

About a third of my classmates are having children or have already 
had theirs.  Another third are postponing both marriage and family 
until their careers are established.  One of my peripheral friends 
from back then, whom I've lost track of, has lost about thirty pounds 
and gone completely bald.  His best friend got religion, had four 
kids, and became a fundamentalist preacher (although, I have to say, 
he was remarkably nice to me anyway, including doing a picture-you 
picture-me gag with our digital cameras).  My best two female friends 
are knee-deep in motherhood on the one hand and getting an MBA on the 
other.

On the good side, I met the spouses of both the Imzadi and the friend 
who used to captain our Science Bowl team.  They've paired up with 
good folks; I'm thrilled.  I also got the nerve up to do some karaoke 
at the formal party, and got a couple of compliments.

But oh, mother of memory, do I feel old!

Over the next three books, Harry and the crowd are going to be in 
what would be high school in the US.  So far, I haven't been made to 
feel ancient reading their exploits - maybe because the limited dates 
available in the canon set CoS in 1992, which would make Harry the 
same age as some of my college friends (who don't make me feel nearly 
as old).  I wonder how much I'm going to be aware of their age as 
they approach ages I remember clearly, though . . .

-- 
  - Boggles, aka J. C. B. Ramon			boggles at earthlink.net
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