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Ten year class reunion

Wow, ten years since I graduated high school. Many probably will say \"it seems like only yesterday\" but to me it seems much, much longer. In fact, to be honest, I hardly remember those four years at all. Sure some special moments stand out that included performances or things with friends, but on the whole\... really, nothing. I wasn\'t planning on going to the reunion. It wasn\'t until my friend Becky from high school asked me to go did I cave and signed up and booked a flight. I figured the people I wanted to talk to I already have on Facebook, and the rest I don\'t remember anyway.

I kind of feel bad. I hear my friends on Facebook mention names and I have zero recollection to who they may be. I suppose I could dig through a year book or something before I head back to Illinois and try to recount people I may run into, but I don\'t care that much. I have a group of about five people I\'m really looking forward to seeing. The rest I guess never mattered enough for me to remember that they existed.

We\'re (more or less) going to stick together as a group and travel via Becky\'s mom\'s car who only has a tape deck. I volunteered to put together a sweet mix tape that would jive with our four years we were there. And here it is:

1. Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life 2. Bush - Swallowed 3. Oasis - Wonderwall 4. The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight 5. Hanson - MMMBop 6. Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon 7. Merrill Bainbridge - Mouth 8. Meredith Brooks - Bitch 9. Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery 10. Jewel - Foolish Games 11. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 12. Cake - I Will Survive 13. Savage Garden - I Want You 14. Spice Girls - Say You\'ll Be There 15. Fool\'s Garden - Lemon Tree 16. Beck - Where It\'s At 17. Beastie Boy s- Intergalactic 18. Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch 19. Santana and Rob Thomas - Smooth 20. No Doubt - Sunday Morning 21. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

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So here\'s to Grant Community High School class of 1999. Go Bulldogs. Here\'s where I\'ll be going, and for your entertainment some photos.

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