I'd Like to Thank the Academy
Influencers: People and Places
Hoffman Farms of Yesteryear
Musical Sensibility
See Sam Run
100

The high school award I won four years in a row

Outstanding Freshman/Sophomore/Junior/Senior of the Year, in orchestra

100

My first Jewish friend

Esther Kaplan
100

This former friend's mother once served me raw potato like apple slices

Stephanie Kunze

100

The room at Hoffman Trails that housed my first orchestra class

The storage room/supply closet

100

I ran for this Darby Orchestra government position and lost to Cassie Howard (Mr. Reigel recognized the lapse in judgment and made me an officer anyway)

President of Orchestra

200

One of the two animals I wrote Zoo School theses on

Red panda; Straw-necked ibis

200

TV character who inspired my cat's name

Newman from Seinfeld

200

I threw this to Toni in the Morris' loft, resulting in her black eye

Cranium Super Fort building segment

200

I played in the pit orchestra of multiple musicals at Darby...name 2. 

Fiddler on the Roof; Peter Pan; Thoroughly Modern Millie

200

Name both of the sports that I played at Hilliard Darby HS, including varsity/junior varsity designations

Varsity soccer, JV tennis

300

The STEM(ish) class that I took during my fall semester at CMU

Coding/programming

300

This person inspired my Ralph Wiggum haircut. Later, she was my Zoo School classmate

Emma Kate Gonzales

300

This boy and his babysitter sister lived catty-corner from us

Will Moy

300

My role in the fifth grade production of Jungle Book

Kaa the Snake's rear-end

300

The event and/or the fluid that resulted in my second hand cast 

Puking in the cast at Darby summer soccer conditioning

400

Name three of the five major degree programs I enrolled in at Ohio State

Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (Zoology); University Exploration (undecided); Communications; English; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

400

The place we were located when Evan became my boyfriend

Mawmaw and Pawpaw's house

400

Ben and Lane's middle names

Scott; Mitchell

400

The musical I saw on Broadway

Aladdin

400

The Darree event that I left in an ambulance

OP try-outs

500

I attended junior prom at two different educational institutions: Darby and ____

Delaware Area Career Center (DACC/Zoo School Prom)

500

We were seated at a table in this former Hilliard Rome restaurant when we chose Sulley's name (hint: salad bar)


Ruby Tuesday

500

The embarrassing vehicle that mom drove to middle school carpool

Ecole Maison bus

500

I dressed up as this 80s pop icon for Halloween one year

Madonna

500

Nathan Bonn hit me in the face with this object while I was running through the backyards

Military/utility belt

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