You may have noticed the URL of this blog - http://goodcrackedegg.blogspot.com.
Nobody has really said anything yet, but I know it has kicked around in the back of a few people's minds: "What is wrong with this girl? Good cracked egg?"
Throughout middle and high schools, I had a pretty good friend, K, with whom I had several classes. Out of all the friends I had in high school, she was the one I hung out with the most often. We just became closer the older we got, and she expressed an interest and passion for sign language, later turning that passion into a profession by becoming a sign language interpreter (you go you, girl!).
I was involved with Yearbook from my sophomore year, starting as a lowly reporter, before moving up as blacklist editor my junior year, and then editor in chief when I was a senior, so I was a HUGE Yearbook nerd, and K knew this. As a junior blacklist editor, I was also responsible for crafting the senior personals. I always craved having a personal of my own, but as a lowly freshman, sophomore, and junior, I couldn't.
As seniors, we were kings and queens of the school. K and I could finally do what we always wanted to do, and created a senior personal for the yearbook.
Essentially, senior personals is a way for the student-run Yearbook board to raise money to help cut down on the cost of production, especially when we needed to print and distribute 1,500 yearbooks. And let's be honest, Josten's isn't cheap either. At something like $50 a pop for a 1/8 page ad in black and white, and going up to approximately $200 or $250 for a full page color personal, it was a great way to fundraise.
We had senior personals from our parents and siblings (Linda chose a very embarrassing picture of mine for the one she ordered), and decided to go one step further. K and I ordered a senior personal for ourselves too! We ordered a 1/8 page ad, which meant we had a picture and a small area for the text, and we struggled to think of a quote that described our friendship. Out of the two of us, I'm the crazy one. I'm the one who says things without thinking, while she's the voice of reason. We were each other's dates for our junior prom. I was the one who coerced convinced her to get a Facebook account. We ate lunch together every day.
Every year when yearbooks were released, we reserved a full page for each other to sign, and would often go in long narratives detailing how we would live together in a nursing home when we were 98 years old and beat off old men with our walkers, accompanied by stick figure drawings.
While we may not be as close as we were in high school, K is definitely someone I try to keep in touch with and visit whenever I'm in Greensboro. And every time we see each other, it is as though I hadn't been away for years.
The quote we selected for our senior personal describes our friendship perfectly. I have thought of this quote almost daily since then, and I have done my best to love my friends and how beautifully unique they are.
Our quote?
So you have it. Good cracked eggs.
Nobody has really said anything yet, but I know it has kicked around in the back of a few people's minds: "What is wrong with this girl? Good cracked egg?"
Throughout middle and high schools, I had a pretty good friend, K, with whom I had several classes. Out of all the friends I had in high school, she was the one I hung out with the most often. We just became closer the older we got, and she expressed an interest and passion for sign language, later turning that passion into a profession by becoming a sign language interpreter (you go you, girl!).
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| K and I at Senior Awards Night! Swinging our cords cuz we can |
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| Senior Yearbook editors |
Essentially, senior personals is a way for the student-run Yearbook board to raise money to help cut down on the cost of production, especially when we needed to print and distribute 1,500 yearbooks. And let's be honest, Josten's isn't cheap either. At something like $50 a pop for a 1/8 page ad in black and white, and going up to approximately $200 or $250 for a full page color personal, it was a great way to fundraise.
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| Ragsdale High School Yearbook Committee 2008-2009 |
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| My fellow Yearbook editors know exactly where we snuck this picture in the Yearbook (multiple places). Woolly wasn't very pleased with us when she found one... |
While we may not be as close as we were in high school, K is definitely someone I try to keep in touch with and visit whenever I'm in Greensboro. And every time we see each other, it is as though I hadn't been away for years.
The quote we selected for our senior personal describes our friendship perfectly. I have thought of this quote almost daily since then, and I have done my best to love my friends and how beautifully unique they are.
Our quote?
"A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg even though he knows you are slightly cracked." - Bernard Meltzer
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| Junior prom picture! We also used this for our personal. |
SWEEEEET!
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