Reunion Fun

Well, I’m back from the AHHS Reunion trip. I had a really good time (better than I thought I would). Most of the events were a blur, but here are some random thoughts and recollections (and advice?):

1) I had a camera with me and I thought I took hundreds of pics all weekend. That wasn’t the case- I barely used it. I think I wound up putting about 20 pics in an album on Facebook.

2) I thought I did a damn good job mingling at the bar on Friday night and at the event on Saturday night. Well, now that I’ve seen some of my friends’s pics- I seemed to have missed a lot of people. That’s kind of a drag, I wanted to give at the least a hello to a lot of them.

3) The girls looked better than ever (but of course you knew I’d say that)

4) The smartest thing I probably did was to schedule outside events- I met Ross for breakfast on Friday so we could catch up. I also got to hang out with the Lauras and catch up as well.

If/when you’re going to a reunion, do that same thing if you have time– schedule lunches/breakfasts/coffee whatever with your classmates. Or, bring them along to your parents’ regular burger night post-reunion if they’re still in town like Kevin, Laura and Tenny were. Like I noted before, I thought I had mingled well, but didn’t so I was lucky to have scheduled things where I did have time to talk.

5) I also got to spend some quality time with some non-reunion folk- most notably my parents, my replacement™, Megan, Sarah, Chuck & Sam, and got to do a quick catch-up with Golly who I didn’t know lived in SF for a bit before moving back to SA (she has a kick-ass store where those of you in SA should go shop).

6) I forget I’m in a bubble out here and was surprised that a lot of people weren’t online- ie at least facebook. But from the past week’s worth of activity, they almost all are now. Not everyone I know sits in front of a computer all day like me and I forget that.

7) No, I don’t have any crazy “guess who I made out with in the women’s restroom” stories, so stop asking me that.

8) No, the hostess of a popular tv entertainment “news” show wasn’t there- so sorry, didn’t get any star gossip.

9) Re: #6 above, I also rarely have business cards on me. I remembered them on Saturday, but only had one on Friday night.

I did have the foresight to order some cards from moo cards but they didn’t arrive until today (or after I had left). Take cards with you if you go to an event– I used to think it was cheesy until more than one person asked me for one. btw- here’s what my cards look like. I had linked moo to my flickr account and picked random photos tagged with “food, travel or wine” and did some rearranging. They came out quite well.

10) I thought I had more to add, but I forgot some points. I’ll add them to the comments later if I think of anything.