John O'Brien

1.) Who do you wish you kept in touch with from high school?I've managed to keep in touch with my closer friends, although it might be nice if Karl would show up more than every other year. I've pretty much lost touch with the swim team crowd and wonder what happened to some of them every now and then.

2.) What is something you wish you did after high school or college that you never had the chance to do?I am yet unable to embark on my quest to learn the traditional spearfishing techniques of the natives of the Peruvian Andes.

3.) What is something you're happy you had the chance to do?Going to Notre Dame during the good football years (something that seemed important then) and making some good friends there, my wife being one. Having two kids, releasing the six year old in me that wasn't very well restrained to begin with. Plus keeping my hair.

4.) Where is your favorite place you've been to in the last 20 years?It's probably a toss up between the obligatory Maui honeymoon (same as yours if you went there) and going to Edinburgh with Sreeny: me, a recent graduate of a Catholic university, arguing at the crack of dawn with a recent Presbyterian graduate from dental school over the finer points of papal infallibility doctrine, the two of us three sheets to the wind at four in the moring, while a pair of similarly inebriated Hindus watched in amusement and confusion. (Mr. Wilson, wherever he is, is crying now.)

5.) Name a high school memory that still makes you smile/laughThe "Army" and the fact that it was funny in the naivete of the day. Now we'd be hauled in by Homeland Security. Driving around Beverly Hills with opening garage doors, Karl howling with laughter in the back seat. "Hey, Tim, watch this!" The Fourth Street Singers' appearance at Mock Rock and the alleged censoring on the public access broadcast. Disposing of trash from White Castle. The dreaded five question quizzes: "Say something about a circus." Being late for calculus because I was stuck in the secret rooms on Bubble Bobble, and playing "Go to Hell" on the way back. Rob Corsini stories: hitting the deer and the plan to grossly misuse Papal authority (not to mention the plan's critical flaw). "Howdy, your car is on my foot." "You told me to keep backing up!"

6.) Who are you looking forward to seeing at the reunion?Karl, the Mean One, Alex, and I'll throw a bone to Vas, even though I talked to you five minutes ago. Many others, that I may be reminded of the good times I have forgotten.

7.) Is there anything your spouse/significant other would be surprised to know about you from your high school days?Despite meeting the crowd, she's not heard much about all the crappy times that have long since faded from our collective memory. I'm sure there were some; the good stuff remains.