This 30th high school reunion business has been going on for two weeks and I am finding myself quite distracted by the e-mail chain that keeps popping up in my in-box.

It’s like high school all over again (albeit a virtual one): I’m not getting any work done because it’s too much fun getting to know these old friends via e-mail. This morning, I received the following Minutes about last Monday night’s meeting.

"We met to discuss a potential 30th reunion for our class, to make some preliminary decisions, to catch up, and to eat take-out Chinese food.  Focus was on two issues:  Who do we invite/how do we find people and what is the event/what are we doing when we get there.

Just seven of us were able to attend, but a few more have joined the e-mail chain. It’s like high school all over again: everyone wants to be invited to the party.

I am feeling connected to people I haven’t felt connected to in years and am actually  looking forward to our next meeting in January. At the first meeting, I think everyone was testing the waters to see if they really wanted there to be a reunion at all. Certainly, there was trepedation on the part of some of the participants. I know I felt it: Do I want to do this let alone help organize it?

But these reservations were put to rest by the good feeling engendered by our meeting and the take-out Chinese food feast. The Minutes confirm this.

1) We really would like to have a reunion.  That is to say, we were not totally sick of each other by the end of the evening.  And we all had a good time (I think)

2) We understand that there will be challenges associated with having a reunion for a non-existent school — primarily that we will need to do all of the work.

3) But on the other hand, we won