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Summer before sixth grade! For my birthday party, my parents took me, Chris, Sean & Keith to NJ's INFAMOUS Action Park. Check out those shirts! Haha.
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...headed to the bar next to the hotel to keep the reunion going for a little longer!
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...even went so far as to put eveyone's high school yearbook photo onto the name tags! Haha. So good.
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Close up of me peeking out in the corner. Funny to see so many familiar faces that I hadn't seen since people wore Jincos. Haha.
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Scott and me.
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Remi's coming in a few weeks!
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Yay!
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I ran into Adam Padfield (who I pretty much only get to see once a year at The Barn!)
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Post-tubin' relaxin'.
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Me getting love from Adam, Amy and Paige after my "set."
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Me and a guy named Billy Lashavicke (sp?) who I don't think I even said like 10 words to in all the 6 years we went to school together - but then 11 years and three Scotches later and you're best buds!
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Scott, Emily and me. Aw, yeah - Roxbury High School!
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Me and Amy Albano!
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Well, it turns out that Brandon Buckley (who I went to high school with) was playing drums for Minnie Driver that night (he also plays drums for Shakira! Woo!) and two other kids I went to high school with were there to see him! Here's me with Alex _____ and Larry Grodeska! They were both two years older than me and I hadn't seen either of them since 1992!
the november roundup
November, 2004
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After we got back to NYC and returned the rental car, I went home to take a nap (to sleep off the four straight hours of eating I'd done at the bat mitzvah). Later that night, I walked two blocks to M Bar to meet up with Bev Chase and her friend Jessica (who also went to our high school but was a few years younger and I didn't know her).
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Wednesday night I went to CBGB's (also on Bowery, wooo!) to see Chrisina Alessi's band, Hey Tiger. I went to HS with Chris and ran into fellow Roxbury High School alumnus, Megan Mee and Gary Chase. (That's 2 points for me!)
the january roundup
January, 2004
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Saturday night, Emily and I put on our fancy duds and headed out to enjoy the only worthwhile nightlife in our town...
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Lisa Puzio and Kim Shortino! Ha!
thanksgiving vacation
November 26, 2003
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First thing I did upon arriving in town on Wednesday evening was pick up Kim Wilson (my senior prom date, awwww) who was in town from North Carolina and head over to a bar in town called "The Barn," which before all major holidays is the best place to find other people you went to high school with.
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Roxbury High School in the house, y'all.
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What's better than three Roxbury grads in one pic? How about six mothafucking Roxbury Grads in one pic? Insanity. Bev, Chris, Colin Badini, Ian, Emily and me.
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Friday night I headed out to Hoboken with fellow Roxbury High School graduates Emily Cmielewski and Bev Chase to see our friend Christina Alessi's band (also RHS alum, baby) Hey Tiger play at Maxwell's.
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And we were even treated to yet ANOTHER (late-comer) RHS arrival...Amanda Polk (who still won't make out with me. It's been like 10 years already. Seriously, WTF?)
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Awwwwww yeah, Roxbury High School in the ha-higgity, boyeeeee.
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Yay, Roxbury High School! Wooooo! After this pic was snapped, the three of us headed down to Iggy's Keltic Lounge (where Grant and I guest bartended) in the LES and met up with Bev's boyfriend Matt (for some reason I didn't take any pics of the four of us. Me not taking pictures? Unheard of!)
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Right when we walked into Jimi, I heard someone yell my name. I was like, I'm in fucking Asbury Park, NJ...who the fuck knows my name? I turn around to see Max, Chris Silk and Christina Alessi, three people I went to high school with. Apparently, Ween was playing a show at the Stone Pony the next night and they were staying at a hotel around the corner with a bunch of people. Randomness.
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I also randomly ran into Rob Berliner (Not only does he live in Philly, we went to high school together...which makes it a Double Random Whammy! Woooo!).
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Amanda Polk and Jodi Guresko (who I went to high school with!) came to the afterparty, but chickened out last minute and bailed on karaoke! Bah!
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Roxbury, our hometown, had nothing going on. So we hopped in the car and drove to Morristown, NJ where we promply struck RHS Alum paydirt! Emily, Scott Morrison (class of '94, baby), his girlfriend whose name I don't know, and me.
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75% of people in this picture are from Succasunna, NJ. Jamie Rubin, Jess Kain, and myself all represent on the Roxbury H.S. tip. While Matty peeks over our Succasunna-hailing shoulders (Jess had just flown in from San Diego, CA that night and came right to our digs to get her drink on.)
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Me and Kara! (Drunk!)
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Immediately upon entering the bar we ran into the Wilcheck sister (Joslyn & Adrian). We thought we'd hit the RHS jackpot for sure, but The Barn turned out to be...
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We started the hunt at Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant (whose bar is apparently, according to our sources, a hot bed of drunken RHS alumni activity). L to R: Jess, Me, Kim and Evani. There wasn't anybody we recognized upon our arrival...but halfway through our first beer...
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In the midst of all our drunken midget-plotting, I ran into Dana Kunz, who lived a few houses down the street from me in high school!