Comments on: The summer of ‘96 http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96/ Writings and whereabouts Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:34:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Sara http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96/#comment-12067 Sara Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:10:00 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96-was-when-it-all-changed/#comment-12067 You're right, I really enjoyed this piece!! I can just see you doing those things. But I wish I could see a picture of this girl!! Anyway, I guess everyone else is sharing memories, I will too. In 1996, I was infatuated with a school friend, Dan, from a far. He was a "bad boy," the type I always seemed to like. He smoked pot and lost his virginity in the eight grade and was a ladies man (as much as you could be in my tiny nerd high school) even though he wasn't "hot" by any conventional standard. I fell in "love" with Dan during homecoming freshman year. I didn't have a date but I went with all my girlfriends. Dan came alone, too, and we spent the night talking on the steps in the hallway about how this chick tried to steal my Beatles Anthology CD in computer class...and other stuff, of course. I spent the year lusting after him and hating every girl he told me he liked, including Susan, who later became one of my best friends, and this chick Colleen, who Dan joked gave him an erection when she ate an orange in front of him. Nothing ever happened between us romantically all through high school. Instead, we became really good friends and he said sometimes I understood his humor so much it was "scary." I tutored him in biology. Once, I had the chance to kiss him while we were play-fighting on his bed but I didn't. I thought it would have been like kissing my brother by that point. Dan found out I liked him four years after I obsessed over him in 1996. I think during a senior trip I confessed to him. When we graduated, he wrote in my year book "It would have been 'on' in 96." When I read that, it kind of makes me sad. But at the same time, I know I would never have dated him if he had liked me, because he was way too "advanced" and back then I was terrified even to kiss a guy. Dan is married now and becoming a lawyer. We recently found each other on Myspace. I hope he doesn't find this blog b/c he'd probably think I'm psycho. But that's my story. Not as good as yours. You’re right, I really enjoyed this piece!! I can just see you doing those things. But I wish I could see a picture of this girl!!

Anyway, I guess everyone else is sharing memories, I will too.

In 1996, I was infatuated with a school friend, Dan, from a far. He was a “bad boy,” the type I always seemed to like. He smoked pot and lost his virginity in the eight grade and was a ladies man (as much as you could be in my tiny nerd high school) even though he wasn’t “hot” by any conventional standard.

I fell in “love” with Dan during homecoming freshman year. I didn’t have a date but I went with all my girlfriends. Dan came alone, too, and we spent the night talking on the steps in the hallway about how this chick tried to steal my Beatles Anthology CD in computer class…and other stuff, of course.

I spent the year lusting after him and hating every girl he told me he liked, including Susan, who later became one of my best friends, and this chick Colleen, who Dan joked gave him an erection when she ate an orange in front of him.

Nothing ever happened between us romantically all through high school. Instead, we became really good friends and he said sometimes I understood his humor so much it was “scary.” I tutored him in biology. Once, I had the chance to kiss him while we were play-fighting on his bed but I didn’t. I thought it would have been like kissing my brother by that point.

Dan found out I liked him four years after I obsessed over him in 1996. I think during a senior trip I confessed to him. When we graduated, he wrote in my year book “It would have been ‘on’ in 96.” When I read that, it kind of makes me sad. But at the same time, I know I would never have dated him if he had liked me, because he was way too “advanced” and back then I was terrified even to kiss a guy.

Dan is married now and becoming a lawyer. We recently found each other on Myspace. I hope he doesn’t find this blog b/c he’d probably think I’m psycho. But that’s my story. Not as good as yours.

]]> By: Alina Popescu http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96/#comment-11945 Alina Popescu Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:20:39 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96-was-when-it-all-changed/#comment-11945 Yes, it is the main lesson you are left with in the end. The rest is..something like bonus points. Yes, it is the main lesson you are left with in the end. The rest is..something like bonus points.

]]> By: Cristian http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96/#comment-11783 Cristian Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:50:37 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96-was-when-it-all-changed/#comment-11783 Alina: Hope is the idea. After all, that's why these are the "we've all been there" experiences. Alina: Hope is the idea. After all, that’s why these are the “we’ve all been there” experiences.

]]> By: Alina Popescu http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96/#comment-11757 Alina Popescu Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:44:58 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96-was-when-it-all-changed/#comment-11757 96 eh? Well, I also fell for a senior that year, but in the autumn. And I was on my third year of secondary. Anyway, it would be a great to write about it. Loved your story. There is something about this unshared loves. They teach you pain, loneliness, survival, endings and hope, lots of hope :) 96 eh? Well, I also fell for a senior that year, but in the autumn. And I was on my third year of secondary. Anyway, it would be a great to write about it.

Loved your story. There is something about this unshared loves. They teach you pain, loneliness, survival, endings and hope, lots of hope :)

]]> By: Magda http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96/#comment-11745 Magda Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:06:37 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96-was-when-it-all-changed/#comment-11745 'Our women were always so real...' I remember the dbrom special Femeia:))) it's so much you in this great piece and so much nostalgia... ‘Our women were always so real…’ I remember the dbrom special Femeia:))) it’s so much you in this great piece and so much nostalgia…

]]> By: Sandi http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96/#comment-11643 Sandi Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:09:12 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2007/01/30/the-summer-of-96-was-when-it-all-changed/#comment-11643 I remember 96 perfectly. I became overnight the Chief of the Licensing Bureau at the local radio station I was working as Music Director. Why? Because the role had to exist according to the copyright law so somebody had to be there to go to prison if necesary... Takt were the best quality casettes, however quite rare. No album alterations. Poker not bad either. Sandi I remember 96 perfectly. I became overnight the Chief of the Licensing Bureau at the local radio station I was working as Music Director. Why? Because the role had to exist according to the copyright law so somebody had to be there to go to prison if necesary…

Takt were the best quality casettes, however quite rare. No album alterations. Poker not bad either.

Sandi

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