Learn from the mistakes of others

[What year was it?]
1988

[What were your three favorite bands?]
no idea. probably three embarrassing ones.

[What was your favorite outfit?]
as if. male. country. aussie. 'outfit' ... hardly.

[What was up with your hair?]
it was the 80s. in country australia. so it had to be a mullet. [eek]

[Who were your best friends?]
lessee ... my best friends - rebecca, catherine, and catherine. [yes, geek guy's best friends were girls.]

[What did you do after school?]
what, as in 'after school', or after i left school? to the former, homework. to the latter - more school of course. molecular biology, computer science, law, law, education.

[Did you take the bus?]
no way. walked or rode a bicycle.

[Who did you have a crush on?]
several girls, at different times. sometimes several at the same time. names will remain undisclosed [catherine, catherine, roberta, rebecca, megan (oh megan!)]

[Did you fight with your parents?]
no. but i did have to deal with themfighting with each other.

[Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?]
in 1988. cannot remember (thankfully).

[Did you smoke cigarettes?]
no. [yuck!]

[Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?]
no. just put up with idiots screwing around with them.

[Did you have a ‘clique’?]
hell no. i was the wierd geeky guy. did get to hang out with some of the girls though.

[Did you have “The Max” like Zach, Kelly and Slater?]
umm? if i'm geussing right, we had our sporty blokes, and so on.

[Admit it, were you popular?]
in a wierd way, i was. i didn't realise it at the time - but the fact i didn't put up with shit from the bullies - nor did i descent to fighting back - won me a lot of respect. [i mostly ignored the sad freaks. as if they weren't there. certainly wasn't afraid of them. not after facign real bullies in england.]

[Who did you want to be just like?]
hmm. in year 12? <insert random nobel laureate here>

[What did you want to be when you grew up?]
world-class biomedical researcher.

[Where did you think you’d be at the age you are now?]
a proffessorial post in a world-class biomedical research facility.