It wasn’t just that Josh was a cute, beautiful, sexy man. That helped, sure, but a huge part of what I loved about him was that we shared so many interests, and that he cared about doing more than just the minimum to get through life. He was in band with me (trombones, hell yeah!), played football, and was our set designer/builder for drama. It honestly amazed me all the things he did and spent time on while managing to keep pretty good grades, it amazed me even more that he had any time at all for friends and time for me. Of course, taking a full classload and doing so many electives and after school activities meant we didn’t have a ton of time together, so we had to get creative in finding time to be, ahem, alone.
I’ve mentioned it before, but where I grew up there were a lot of rich people. Combine that with a fairly small community with a single high-school and it’s no small wonder that our school was incredibly well done. To my eyes (that cared oh so little for sports) the crowning jewel was our auditorium- 1,000 seats with balcony, full tech booth, mechanically controlled acoustic walls to adjust for plays or orchestras, it was a stunning amount of money that surely was spent on such a majestic and wonderful space. But the best part of the whole thing was backstage.