Why would someone be embarassed over a perfect score on a test? I mean, it’s good to be humble, but embarassment seems strange to me.

I don’t think our generation now looks down upon doing well in school. It was something limited to early school life for me, at least. By the time I reached high school it was admired.

I never underachieved in elementary or juniour high, but I felt unchallenged in high school and became a bit lazy during my last two years, being only in the top 15% of my grade rather than the top 5%.

I’ll likely share more about my later crushes in an entry sometime in the future. In juniour high my crushes were on two girls named Jenna and Alicia. Alicia was absolutely brillint, the class president, active in band and theatre, one of the smartest girls in the grade and overall a nice person. Jenna was more an average student in most respects, but still attractive to me.

I have a soft spot for girls I can’t ever be with. It’s never been an undoing for me, but it was certainly a frustration then.