DC Cookie: Time Capsule

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Time Capsule

I don't remember doing this, but apparently when we graduated high school our entire class filled out a piece of paper entitled 'Class of 1995 Time Capsule.' I missed my 10 year reunion this past weekend, but my roommate brought my time capsule home with her. This made me crack up:

Where do you see yourself in the year 2005? 'As an executive investment banker in Paris, married to a French police officer and mother of a brand new chubby son.'

I hope I was joking...

16 Comments:

At November 29, 2005 10:27 AM, Washington Cube said…

That's okay, Cookie. I was going to be a paleontologist. Almost made it on that one...until an entirely different career stumbled onto my path. Life has a way of doing that to ya.
At November 29, 2005 10:33 AM, Kathryn Is So Over said…

According to 17-year-old me, I should be a doctor - a geneticist, no less - who got married no older than 25 and has already had at least 3 of her 5 kids. They were to go girl-boy-girl-boy-girl and I had first and middle names for all of them.

What a fucking nightmare!
At November 29, 2005 10:34 AM, DC Cookie said…

I'm telling you Kat...give yourself a limit and then just have JB's bi-racial superbabies.
At November 29, 2005 10:50 AM, Sharkbait said…

Too funny.

We did this thing in high school where we wrote our future selves a whole letter.

Who knows if we will ever see it again. Man, 5 years out of hs already, I am feeling old.
At November 29, 2005 11:04 AM, Crazy Girl City said…

Ahaha. This is funny. I remember my high school plan. Master's degree by 23.....married by 25......first kid at 27......second at 29. You can see my plan worked out real well.
At November 29, 2005 11:32 AM, cs said…

It's better to set the bar low, that way you feel good about yourself later. I for instance wrote in my high school time yearbook that my ambition was "college."
At November 29, 2005 11:49 AM, Melissa said…

"Life is what happens when we're making other plans." (The internet sources report this is John Lennon's quote, but I think that it's much much older than that.

I went to H.S. in the 80's. I was too busy fluffing and spraying my hair to look like a Guns N' Roses groupie. I don't remember making a 5 or 10 year plan in high school but I'm sure it would have ended with me marrying Axl Rose. And ugh...have you SEEN him now?
At November 29, 2005 12:30 PM, Phil said…

I predicted I would be a mustachioed, turtleneck wearing gentleman who spent his days and nights posting about his adventures with 4 friends he's known his entire life.

Right where I thought I'd be.
At November 29, 2005 2:04 PM, Lucy said…

I will be missing my 10-year reunion this year, because I will be living the life of an international ingenue in Cairo. Suckas.
At November 29, 2005 2:40 PM, Nicole said…

I too wrote a letter to myself to be returned in 5 years. (We did it in 2 classes actually and I have gotten both back).

Anyway, I was going to be a virgin. :-O
At November 29, 2005 3:20 PM, VP of Dior said…

We did this in 6th grade too. I planned on winning an academy award at 18, then get married and have 3 kids and become a marine biologist living in Denver, CO.

A marine biologist in Colorado??!?
At November 29, 2005 3:49 PM, Heather B. said…

I was going to be a neonatologist living in San Francisco. Married with a child by 24.

Ummm it would've helped if I had passed bio...
At November 29, 2005 4:46 PM, JordanBaker said…

We did the same thing--I was supposed to have at least one Tony Award and one child at this point.
At November 29, 2005 4:49 PM, Asian Mistress said…

You like the French, eh?

I think I expected to be married and running political campaigns.

You see how closely I am to reaching that goal in 2010.
At November 30, 2005 6:48 AM, Jinxy said…

Our classmates had to write ours for us. Here's what mine said:

"Godwin High School, Class of '89 declares that J. Jonah Jinxy, Jr. will become a guidance counselor at UVA and convince all of the students to kill themselves."

No shit.
At November 30, 2005 10:49 PM, Anonymous said…

I'm right with Kathryn....17-year-old me had me married with a kid or two by now. But at 17 I also thought the football players with 700 SAT scores were the greatest people I knew. Looking back (at age 25 and single), I think I was dumber than they were.