[00:01.39]The only really bad thing about senior year was Lisa.
[00:04.89]Right before Christmas, she dumped me.
[00:06.56]One minute, she’s totally in love with me,
[00:08.81]and then boom, she goes after my football buddy Randy.
[00:12.65]Sometimes I wonder what would have happened
[00:15.03]if I had actually won the election.
[00:16.90]Maybe my whole life would be different.
[00:18.53]Like I might never have gone to Yosemite
[00:21.41]with Greg and Travis.
[00:23.16]Or maybe I’d be dead.
[00:25.20]Alleluia
[00:28.12]Catholic school was great.
[00:31.83]I mean, the teachers kind of sucked,
[00:35.13]and they were supposedly way more strict.
[00:37.59]But you could get away with murder.
[00:40.01]The best thing about Immaculate Heart
[00:42.89]was meeting Jennifer.
[00:45.06]JenniferJuniper
[00:48.89]Lives up on the hill
[00:52.06]JenniferJuniper
[00:56.03]Sitting very still
[00:59.32]Is she sleeping
[01:01.24]Jennifer and I are soul mates
[01:02.70]and we’re never, ever, ever going to be apart.
[01:05.87]JenniferJuniper
[01:10.04]Order! Order. Order!
[01:13.29]Senior year was very productive for me.
[01:15.04]Let’s vote on this issue.
[01:16.63]On top of a very successful student council year,
[01:18.46]I was in the top seventh percentile
[01:20.67]of my graduating class.
[01:21.88]Opposed?
[01:23.01]And I got into Georgetown, like I wanted,
[01:24.26]with scholarships.
[01:26.72]Approved.
[01:29.77]But sometimes I got lonely, and I’d think about Dave.
[01:32.90]I missed our talks.
[01:34.48]Maybe it could have worked out between us.
[01:36.90]I don’t know.
[01:38.07]I wonder what he’s doing now.
[01:40.99]Maybe he fiinally fiinished his novel.
[01:44.99]But you know, even with all my my riad accomplishments
[01:49.29]and bright future,
[01:50.95]somehow I just didn’t feel the way you’re supposed to feel.
[01:53.79]Everybody else seemed so happy,
[01:55.79]planning big parties and signing each other’s yearbooks.
[02:00.13]Hardly anybody signed mine.
[02:02.26]You’d think as student body president,
[02:04.18]I’d be the one surrounded by friends.
[02:05.80]But it wasn’t like that at all.
[02:11.73]Brittany Blake Fillmore.
[02:14.56]As far as Mr. McAllister was concerned,
[02:16.36]you might be surprised, but I hardly thought about him
[02:19.11]at all anymore.
[02:20.28]Besides, nobody had heard from him in a long time.
[02:23.11]It was almost like he’d never existed in the fiirst place.
[02:26.49]Tracy Enid Flick.
[02:31.12]When I got to Georgetown,
[02:33.54]I thought I’d fiinally be among people who were like me.
[02:36.04]You know, smarter, more ambitious people.
[02:38.34]I was sure that fiinally I’d make some true friends.
[02:42.38]Excuse me!
[02:44.22]Would you please be quiet?!
[02:46.30]It wasn’t like that at all.
[02:48.43]A lot of them were just spoiled little rich kids
[02:50.26]who didn’t know how lucky they had it.
[02:52.85]That’s OK. I’ve come to accept that very few people
[02:56.10]are truly destined to be special,
[02:57.86]and we’re solo fliers.
[02:59.61]I guess it really is like Dave said,
[03:01.86]"If you’re gonna be great, you’ve got to be lonely."
[03:09.24]What happens to a man when he loses everything?
[03:13.37]Everything he’s worked for.
[03:15.71]Everything he believes in.
[03:19.75]Driven from his home,
[03:21.96]cast out of society,
[03:24.34]how can he survive?
[03:26.34]Where can he go?
[03:27.80]Right this way.
[03:30.76]New York City.
[03:41.32]For centuries, people have come to New York
[03:44.36]seeking refuge from their troubled lives.
[03:47.78]Now I am one of them.
[03:51.33]Besides, I’d always dreamed of living in New York.
[03:53.29]All that excitement and culture.
[03:55.41]Living in the city brings surprises all the time.
[03:58.21]Once in a while, I even bump into former students of mine
[04:00.92]from Carver.
[04:02.96]Oh, sure, my apartment’s a little smaller
[04:05.51]than what I was used to back in Omaha,
[04:07.17]and the rent’s pretty darn steep,
[04:09.05]but it’s got a lot of character.
[04:10.64]And I’m cozy enough.
[04:15.35]Besides, it’s great not needing a car.
[04:17.39]And I get a lot of reading done on the subway.
[04:20.40]Some days I even walk to work.
[04:24.69]The job market is pretty tight in New York,
[04:27.61]but after hunting around for a while,
[04:29.86]I fiinally landed a position in the education department
[04:32.28]at the Museum of Natural History.
[04:34.49]That’s right. I’m teaching again.
[04:37.45]When a school brings its students to the museum
[04:40.83]on a fiield trip,
[04:41.88]there’s a staffof both volunteer docents
[04:43.84]and trained educators like myself...
[04:45.75]who pick up where the classwork leaves off.
[04:49.01]And I’ve started seeing someone new.
[04:51.22]Her name is Jillian.
[04:53.22]She works at the museum, too, in Signs and Signage.
[04:55.93]She’s really different from Diane, and, I don’t know,
[04:58.64]I’ve never met anyone quite like her.
[05:00.98]She just got out of a long relationship, too,
[05:03.69]so we’re trying to take it slow.
[05:09.11]You might ask if I ever saw Tracy Flick again.
[05:11.61]Well, I did.
[05:13.37]Just once.
[05:15.41]I was down in Washington for a museum educator’s conference,
[05:20.46]and I stayed an extra day to do some sightseeing.
[05:25.25]After an inspiring morning on the Mall,
[05:28.26]I was on my way to the Holocaust Museum when...
[06:05.29]I’ll never know ifshe saw me.
[06:07.46]Probably not.
[06:09.09]But in that moment, all the bad memories,
[06:11.55]all the things I’d ever wanted to say to her,
[06:14.51]it all came flooding back.
[06:19.31]My fiirst impulse was to run over there,
[06:21.43]pound on her window,
[06:22.69]and demand that she admit she tore down those posters
[06:25.06]and lied and cheated her way into winning that election.
[06:28.32]But, instead, I just stood there.
[06:33.32]And I suddenly realized I wasn’t angry at her anymore.
[06:37.83]I just felt sorry for her.
[06:40.62]I mean, when I think about my new life
[06:42.75]and all the exciting things I’m doing,
[06:45.08]and then I think about what her life must be like...
[06:47.88]probably still getting up at 5:00 in the morning
[06:50.46]to pursue her pathetic little dreams...
[06:52.80]it just makes me sad.
[06:55.38]I mean where is she really trying to get to anyway?
[06:58.80]What is she doing in that limo?
[07:01.52]Who the fuck does she think she is?!
[07:13.11]Hey, you! Hey!
[07:16.41]You asshole!
[07:18.49]But that’s all ancient history now.
[07:20.83]I’ve got a whole new life.
[07:23.25]I mean, that’s what’s great about America.
[07:25.62]You can always start over.
[07:27.00]So would that make this an igneous rock
[07:29.21]or a sedimentary rock?
[07:31.46]What’s the difference between igneous
[07:33.21]and sedimentary anyway?
[07:44.43]Anybody?
[07:49.77]I want to know how love began
[07:52.52]I want to go to school again
[07:55.40]If you’ll be
[07:58.61]The teacher
[08:01.58]Long before the school bells chime
[08:04.54]I’ll be there ahead oftime
[08:08.12]Just to see my teacher
[08:12.75]Start right from the fiirst of it
[08:16.01]Don’t miss a thing
[08:17.97]I want to get
[08:19.22]All the facts, then I’ll know what to do
[08:23.97]When we graduate, I’ll hold you tight
[08:28.44]Then you’ll know you taught me right
[08:30.69]Teacher, teacher, I’m in love with you
[08:42.45]If you’ll be
[08:45.04]The teacher
[08:53.09]If you’ll be
[08:56.92]The teacher
[08:59.47]Start right from the first of it
[09:02.89]Don’t miss a thing
[09:04.43]I want to get
[09:05.68]All the facts, then I’ll know what to do
[09:10.60]When we graduate, I’ll hold you tight
[09:15.15]Then you’ll know you taught me right
[09:17.32]Teacher, teacher
[09:18.94]I’m in love with you |