On the train back into town I ran into David Bonan from high school! This guy was a year younger than me and I don't think I'd seen him since some time back in the early nineties. Anyway, I recognized him and said hi and then started telling me that he'd recently become a "radical bike activist." So I just Googled him and sure enough, there's an article about him on a biking site. But even more interestingly, according to they New York Times, he ran as a candidate the 2004 Senatorial races! (So what if he lost 169 votes to 21,506 votes? How many people ever voted for YOU to be Senator?) Happy Thanksgiving!
Emily and David Kihm (Roxbury High School Class of 1997, yo). Emily was cold so she got to wear my Succasunna sweatshirt. (Not that I really minded giving it to her...a dude wearing a Succasunna sweatshirt in a Landing bar is pretty much like wearing a sign that says "Hi, I'd like my ass kicked! Thanks!")
Me and a guy named Billy Lashavicke (sp?) who I don't think I even said like 10 words to in all the 6 years we went to school together - but then 11 years and three Scotches later and you're best buds!
And with my good friend Amy Albano. Right when we walked in the door, we started running into high school chums! Here's Amy posing with Jen Eva (who I had the biggest crush on back in high school when she sat in front of me in geometry sophomore year...yeah, can you blame me?) and her little brother Ricky Eva (who has since got all growed up and actually works with my mom as an occupational therapist in a nearby public school!)
Later that night after unpacking some more, I headed out to Park Slope to meet Jen, Amy and Jess for a drink at a bar called The Gate. (When I moved to NYC in 2000, I lived in Gowanus, BK with Amy and The Gate was like the only bar around back then!). Here's me and Jen!
