Day: January 26, 2007

I watched Mean Girls last night. It’s the kind of movie I can only watch when Tiernen is out of the house for a while (he was at a work thing last night). And I woke up thinking that I would have enjoyed high school a lot more knowing then what I know now, both academically and culturally. It’s not only the opportunity to make different decisions about who I would hang out with and what I would choose to get stressed (or not) over, but also the four years of relatively unencumbered time to read, write and do research. That’s the really appealing thing, to be completely honest. I know I’d watch a LOT less TV and I think I’d have gotten involved in SCA and some other community stuff a lot sooner. I think I also would have gone out for a sport. Our school had a swim team, and if I had participated in that and improved my swimming, I could have gotten my lifeguard certificate. That would have opened up some great employment opportunities for me in high school and college. I like to think that if I had gotten involved with a sport then, I might be more inclined to exercise now. As I hate to sweat, swimming would have been a great choice. I guess we should just chalk that up to “regrets”. So, is there anything y’all would have done differently?