20 Years Ago...
So I've got my 20 year high school reunion coming up. I always thought it was rough being tubby in high school. Well, it was worse in grammar school, and junior high, I guess. Partly because Iwas even tubbier then. I was actually fairly fit by the time I was a senior in high school. I weighed around 185 in wrestling season, and I benched 230 the following Summer.
I recently got back in touch with a friend from back then, Rob Brown. We e-mailed a few times and then had a phone call. He was a bean pole in school. About 6 feet tall and weighed probably less than I did, maybe 165 or so. I haven't seen him, but he says he's up around 260 or so. I can't picture it. That's him on the left in the picture below.
That picutre was taken almost 20 years ago. Rob says a friend of his says he now looks like the guy who ate Rob Brown. I still look about the same. Well, less hair. But today when I received the e-mail he sent with that picture attached I had to laugh. I realized that I am wearing the exact same style Adidas track suit today, only it's black and the one in the picture was blue.
I wonder what happened to that suit.
The little girl, Rebecca, in Mike's arms has graduated from Stanford. Emily there has a PhD in, I think, psychology. She worked for a while with the famous Dr. Drew and Love Lines. Mike is a successful MFCC living in Novato. Rob worked for a long time creating art for the Odd World video game series and now runs his own Art Studio. And then there's me. A few weeks ago, I was a successful small business owner. I guess I'm still a small business owner, it's just not very successful right now. I'm essentially unemployed, at least for a few days.
I'm not sure how I got off on that tangent, but I guess I still have some issues around the current state of things.
The point of this blog was supposed to be how looking back, I'm glad I was tubby in high school so when people see me at the reunion, nobody will say I really let myself go or anything. But I do look a lot thinner in that picture. I'm maybe an inch taller and about 40 pounds heavier.
I've got to get on that treadmill more often. The reunion is in September.
I recently got back in touch with a friend from back then, Rob Brown. We e-mailed a few times and then had a phone call. He was a bean pole in school. About 6 feet tall and weighed probably less than I did, maybe 165 or so. I haven't seen him, but he says he's up around 260 or so. I can't picture it. That's him on the left in the picture below.
That picutre was taken almost 20 years ago. Rob says a friend of his says he now looks like the guy who ate Rob Brown. I still look about the same. Well, less hair. But today when I received the e-mail he sent with that picture attached I had to laugh. I realized that I am wearing the exact same style Adidas track suit today, only it's black and the one in the picture was blue.I wonder what happened to that suit.
The little girl, Rebecca, in Mike's arms has graduated from Stanford. Emily there has a PhD in, I think, psychology. She worked for a while with the famous Dr. Drew and Love Lines. Mike is a successful MFCC living in Novato. Rob worked for a long time creating art for the Odd World video game series and now runs his own Art Studio. And then there's me. A few weeks ago, I was a successful small business owner. I guess I'm still a small business owner, it's just not very successful right now. I'm essentially unemployed, at least for a few days.
I'm not sure how I got off on that tangent, but I guess I still have some issues around the current state of things.
The point of this blog was supposed to be how looking back, I'm glad I was tubby in high school so when people see me at the reunion, nobody will say I really let myself go or anything. But I do look a lot thinner in that picture. I'm maybe an inch taller and about 40 pounds heavier.
I've got to get on that treadmill more often. The reunion is in September.
posted by Eric Soderstrom at 11:22 PM
2 Comments:
Hey look, there's Crockett & Tubbs behind you!!!
Yeah, and I made a mistake - that's not Rob on the left, this picture was taken back when I was hanging out with Anthony Michael Hall. Pst Breakfast Club, pre Edward Scissor Hands.
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