[Puke]

I was asleep, drunk, or stoned through almost all of high school. I had had my fair share of getting my *** kicked for being a geek in gradeschool and junior high (or maybe just because i was a jackass and had it comming), and found a bunch of other *******s in highschool with likeminded and sympathetic ideas about the world. so we sort of detached our selves from the rest of the drudgery.

in 11th and 12th grade, i worked off campus at a electronics shop, so only had to go to class half days. staying out every night didnt help my sleep habits or my general health, so my grades were not all that hot. but by that time, I had realized that grades didnt really matter anyway (most people dont clue in to that one untill after college, i cant exactly remember how I figured it out so early - maybe i was just lazy). and only did enough to get by. I liked the handfull of teachers that actually taught, and they liked me because i understood the concepts and talked to them, even though I was snoozing or hungover most of the time, and even though I never actually did any of my work.

all told, im glad i "enjoyed" myself rather than suffering through the abuse that would have come if I had applied my self to academics. I hate to think what kind of dead end corporate rat race job i'd be in now, if I had stuck it out in the honor system and done the "right" thing with my life back then.