The Janet Hopf Reconciliation Tour '07 is concluded, and frankly, I'm ready to live in the now, now.

The reunion was not what I expected, but nobody but me is surprised that it was so, how shall we say, down market. The women looked as much as possible like they once did, but I didn't recognize a single man. They just let it happen, don't they? The plurality of men, by the way, were rocking this look: Hawaiian shirt and gray mustache. Oh, and something happened right of the bat that was so bizarre that even as it was happening, I was thinking "what seems to be happening can't be really happening!" Some guy I don't remember named Mike Andreen hugged me, and I inhaled his hair. I had to back up to get it out of my trachea, and I don't think he knew what happened, but I'm looking forward to Alzheimer's to claim the memory of that.

The one person I'm really glad I saw there and had a chance to talk to was Lisa Terry, sister to Jo Lynn, my best friend who was killed by a drunk driver the year I graduated college. One of the first things she asked me was "Do you visit her grave? We've had the impression over the years that someone other than the family was there." I put flowers on her grave every time I go to Minneapolis, and it just goes to show, you never know when something you do affects someone else.

Also, I discovered, again, to no one's surprise but mine, that Park Center might not have been that great a school. Here is a list of the teachers who attended, compiled by a member of the reunion committee, himself an inductee in the PC English Hall of Fame:

Dave Brom- Engleish Dept. Paul Wardell- Englaish Dept.
George Lausch- Enjlish Dept. Suzanne Armstrong Larson- Ennglish Dept.
Jack Hohag- Engglish Dept.