Middle School Was, At Least In Retrospect, A Time When I Did Lots Of Embarrassing Things I Now Regret.

Middle school was, at least in retrospect, a time when I did lots of embarrassing things I now regret. At the top of that list is

writing the worst letter/email I have ever written and sending it to an author who did nothing wrong

A few things about the video I had to make about the 1980s farm crisis in the United States in ninth grade:

all the examples my teacher showed us had country music in them

he told us to choose music appropriate for the video (in tone, etc.)

I do not regularly listen to country music, nor did I then

I went "hmmm music that could fit this video and I actually know anything about"

and then I picked two Howard Jones songs

We are all bald scuba divers- my new life philosophy

I grew up with Plants vs. Zombies. It was an integral part of my childhood. Naturally, being small children and wanting to play pretend, my siblings and I decided we each needed a plant to "be." I was a sunshroom. My oldest sister was a sunflower. I don't remember what my other older sister was, but I think it was perhaps a peashooter or a repeater. My little sister, pretty much a baby at the time, was a chomper. My little brother was Crazy Dave

I don't claim to be a Star Wars trivia expert because I absolutely am not. I mean, yeah, I've seen all the movies except episode 8 and whatever clone wars was (was it a movie? I do not know) and have been exposed to a decent amount of Star Wars lore, but I am definitely not a trivia expert.

I have met people who claim to be Star Wars trivia experts.

why have almost none of them ever heard of Jedi Academy (the game, not that comic book series)

Like seriously, I don't know if it's a true masterpiece, but it sure gets close.

Someday someone is going to discover that my high school mascot was a tiger, play "Tiger, Tiger" (Webkinz, 2010) as a joke, and unexpectedly discover that I know all of the words