July 16, 2007
My cousin Zach was the first person to leave a comment on this blog. He used this special opportunity, inscrutably, to remark, “donkey chicken”. What the hell? I was compelled to look up the term on Google and there I found the likely reference: the name of a restaurant chain in Korea.
Zach has been teaching English as a foreign language to students in Korea so it was easy to pinpoint the origin of the comment. The thing I don’t understand though is how someone who is long-term vegetarian like Zach could plug a chicken chop shop. I think under the concealment of great distance from his family and friends in Florida, he may be doing a lot of wish-deboning and finger-licking. Good.
Zach has a masters degree and his achievement impelled me to get one of my own. “How could it be that my younger cousin has a degree and I not?” I rectified the situation and completed my MBA program last year. I hope he doesn’t try to go for a doctorate because I am tired of school and I don’t want to have to go back to class to stay even.
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Posted by John
July 4, 2007
I have added a page about W.S. Rea Elementary School in Terre Haute, Indiana. It is one of three different elementary schools I attended and it is the one where I spent the most number of years. There is surprisingly little information about the school on the internet. There are probably few people who know it ever existed even though it was demolished only 27 years ago.
I would like to know whatever happened to anyone I attended classes with there. My family left town after I completed 6th grade and it would be interesting to know what the path through Chauncey Rose Junior High and North High School would have been like.
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Posted by John
June 23, 2007
There have been so many people that I have known or been acquainted with through the years with whom I am no longer in regular contact. I look for some of them on the internet and sometimes I think I find them. This kind of searching makes me think of the likely possibility that some of them are making an attempt to find out whatever happened to me. Unfortunately, “John Johnson” returns about 806,000 results in Google and even I have no idea how many of them may include a reference to me.To make it easier, I am using this site to let them know that yes, I’m the one that they remember and I’m still doing stuff. I will be posting the link in places that people will likely look in to find me.
Besides the people I remember, there are people that I think know of me, although I don’t necessarily think I know them. I’ve never been a background person, so my name is out there wherever I have gone and whatever I have done. Of course, it helps to have a memorable name.
Occasionally, I consider this when I come in contact with someone who clearly knows me and who calls me by name, while I am struggling to try to remember who they are. I play along, hoping something they say will cause me to remember, but sometimes I never do. I always assume at first it must be my memory that is faulty. So no matter what, I will at least reply excitedly, “Hey, [reading aloud whatever is written on your name tag], how are you doing?”
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