The 20 Year Hunter High School Reunion Drinks Thread (I’m running around today, so this will be slow).

It was at a beautiful art studio in Queens.
So, yknow, the corner of 36th st, 35th Blvd, and 37th ave, or vice versa, Queens makes no sense

We were coming in from vacation and got to Queens an hour early so we went to this place for a pre-show drink.
@VAMNit looked SLAMMIN, as she does, every day, Christ I’m lucky.

Vanessa went to my high school, 2 years younger, but didn’t know I was alive back then.
OR DID SHE?!
Little did I know I’d find out LATER THAT NIGHT.

My general mood before walking into the reunion

(I went denim shirt, but not Gap and not 3 sizes too big, because I am a fancy grownup with a Pulitzer Prize now, no longer Puerto Rican Corey Matthews)

I dunno why I was nervous.
I suppose life has gotten really different these past couple of years. I kept waiting for life to return to normal after opening night, and it never happened.

Also, I went to our school K-12th grade.
So there are kids I knew for 6 years, and there are kids I knew my whole f’in childhood.
I was terrified things would be different with them.

Anyway, I needn’t have worried.
Here’s my friend Roger. Roger has always been my tallest friend and he remains my tallest friend

Here’s my friend Jillian. We were 2 of the 5 Latino kids in our whole grade in elementary school...

Here’s Stephanie, who really went in on the reunion, and donated the space and made it happen, thank you Stephanie

Here’s Jessica, Adriana and Irulan.
I had crushes on all these women at some point in middle school or another, and now we all talk about is how to get our respective kids to sleep through the night

Wait, Irulan sidebar.
Yes, Irulan from Real World: Vegas.
Also just hilarious and brilliant, and has been since kindergarten. She brought all these middle school pics so you can thank HER for this pic.

Irulan also had the good sense to marry outside our grade, here’s her husband, hearthrob of ‘99, Mikey Budabin, with my heartthrob, @VAMNit, class of ‘00

In this pic is Clare, my first kiss, outside the computer lab on the 4th floor, I’m so sorry that was probably a mess Clare

Here’s ERRYBODY, tag yourselves

Okay, boarding another flight. When I get back...the shocking twist where I get PROOF Vanessa knew I existed back in school...

Oh HEY WI FI.
So now is where I thank my classmate Howard Braham and his lovely wife, who brought us a copy of our old school newspaper, What’s What. But not just ANY edition...

But an edition wherein my future wife and I had columns on THE SAME PAGE

Okay here’s my humor column, just me being extra about hip-hop, I haven’t changed a f*ckin iota (with some redacted names to protect nice folks who didn’t ask for this)

But THIS paragraph in Vanessa’s article is incontrovertible proof that she knew I was alive in high school

So I left my 20 year reunion gratefully relearning what I already knew going in: Christ I’m lucky.