Odd Thought for the Day

[liz_marcs]

via someone from high school who linked to me on Facebook (put up under my RL identity to screen this journal from potential snoopy-snoops):

It appears that Classmates (that online class reunion site that I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole because I just fucking loved high school...) now allows partial profiles on the Internet.

Out of morbid curiosity, I checked out the list of people I went to high school with.

*boggles*

I may be a fat-ass, but at least I've aged well. (People generally guess that I'm 8 years younger than I actually am, give or take 2 years either way.)

Not only that, if I had some dude take a picture of me kayaking away and put that up on my profile, I'd look a lot healthier by a hell of a lot, too. Actually, fat-ass that I am, I'm actually in better shape than some of the pictures of my former high school classmates, especially the boys.

I call myself a fat-ass, and sure, I look like a fat-ass, but how many fat-asses do you know can row a little over 3 miles an hour? Yeah. That's what I thought. So let's call me, "Heavy, but fit."

Comments

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

As someone posted to my LJ yesterday, it's not the number on the scale, it's how you wear the weight. :D

Thin doesn't mean healthy, ever. HEALTHY means healthy. Mmmm, kayaking. So fun and so good for you in so many ways!

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I went to my 30th class reunion last month, and yeah, all of a sudden I don't feel so fat any more. *g*

Also, I'm really glad I didn't bake in the sun when I was a 'teen. I look pretty darn good for 48. :)

[crowgirl13.livejournal.com]

Very few of my classmates post pics... which is not a surprise. It *is* interesting that a solid third of my class has a listing, though.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

My friend Patrice, who is my weight and hasn't got my lower-body injury problems, was zipping around at Lake Chelan on the sea kayaks her BIL keeps stored at the cabin;I wish fort a row-boat of some sort, or even a canoe, because I can't sit with my legs out flat for more than a few minutes without developing pain that immobilizes me for days. I envy you both; kayaking is fun, the little of it I've done (my paddling days were before the proliferation of molded kayaks) and there's easier access to rentals than to my preferred rides.

I'm afraid to look up either of my high-school classes (the one I actually graduated with and the one I went to school with for nine years plus pre-school). The people I run into occassionally fall into two classes: faded and inflated versus desicated and resurfaced. The oneswho are most like themselves are the ones who, like my sister and I, havespent mostofourlives in various healthy outdoor employment.

Julia, having gone to too many funerals for my peers of late.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Back in March, I went to a thirty-year reunion at my university. I was really surprised by how little people had aged! There were only two people out of forty that I didn't recognise - both men who had gone bald. I reckon everyone else had aged really well!

[yanagi-wa.livejournal.com]

How about normal? *hugs* I'm 58, weigh 160 and can buck square bales with the young guys. It's not about how much you weigh, or what your shape is, it's about how healthy you are!! I defy some of the younger men in my 'home' circle to cut as much cord wood as I can, *g* they'd have heart attacks.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't go to a high-school reunion if they paid me.

Well, maybe, depending on the rate... $1000/minute seems about right.

Me too!

[adpfromga.livejournal.com]

I'm neither skinny or un-fit. And I keep up with everyone I paddle with, ocean or otherwise. I describe myself as buff fat chick : )

And, eeeeeewwwwww, total strangers I once went to school with finding me on the internets, ewwwwwwwww!

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I have met you and I can say with certainty that you are not a fat ass. You have a solid build - like a swimmer!

Do not be denigrating yourself like that. You are awesome and cute. And strong.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Where did you find this? Classmates.com still says to register to see profiles.

(is morbidly curious)