Louis Zucaro:
CLASS OF 1985
Barrington High SchoolClass of 1985
Barrington, IL
Barrington Middle SchoolClass of 1981
Barrington, IL
Arnett C. Lines Elementary SchoolClass of 1979
Barrington, IL
Grove Avenue Elementary SchoolClass of 1976
Barrington, IL
Cuba Hill SchoolClass of 1975
Elwood, NY
Louis's Story
Life
After BHS I went to Purdue University but my fear of corn and my general cornfusion soon overcame me and within two years, I decided I'd had enough.
I transferred to the city streets of Chicago where I went to Columbia College. Maybe I should have read the brochures...I thought I was going to be learning all about South America and how to grow coffee but little did I know it was just a regular school. Since I had made the switch I decided to stick it out and take classes on useless subjects such as how to spel werds in Inglesh and stuff like that. Good thing two beecuz I was good at it and gradiated with onnors in all my classiz!
So after school I had trouble finding a job so I just would go to malls dressed up like a mannequin. I'd just stand real still in a store window until somebody came looking up-close and then I'd jump out at them and scare them half to death. Well, most of them anyway...unfortunately I scared one guy all the way to death and was arrested for impersonating an inanimate store fixture.
Fortunatley somebody posted bail for me (actually I still don't know who...if you're out there somewhere reading this, contact me so I can properly thank you and pay you back the $4.83!!!) and I decided I had to turn my life around.
As with most people who decide to turn their lives around, I figured the best way was to settle down and have kids. So I ordered a bride from a Russian catalog and waited for the fun to begin. It never really did. I ended up picking her up from the airport and dropping her off at a friend's house. They said they were going to the store to get beer but I think they went to a party because I never saw Iliana again. At least it was only about $30k to get her over here, so I didn't feel too badly. I just wish I had thought to use a check instead of sending cash via FedEx. Live and learn I guess...
(by the way, FedEx to Russia ain't cheap!)
I've had a few jobs, but my favorite is my current one...I basically just watch TV all day and type out every word that people say on TV shows like Oprah, Regis & Kelly, Letterman, etc. It's so cool! I've been doing it for about 8 years now and I'm hopeful that pretty soon I'll start getting paid for it. The guy Larry that got me into it must have gotten paid already because he said the place that he sends my work to sells each one for like $15 per copy and that sometimes they sell thousands of them! And Larry drives a really cool car so like I said I bet he already got paid. I should ask him. I know my parents would love it if I'd move out.
Anyway, that's pretty much it. I know some of you reading this probably feel like I'm kind of a jerk for bragging about all this stuff but I hope not...really I just wanted to share my good fortune with everybody.
I hope you're all doing at least as well as me or even better (if that's possible!)
College
Wow, Classmates really gives you some good "hints" as to what to write here. This is what it says abov...Expand for more
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"Remember your "unique" roommate? The cafeteria cuisine? Those caffeine-fueled all-nightersÂand dragging yourself to class to turn in the paper? Revisit your college days (and nights) here."
Ok, here goes...
My freshman year at Purdue, I had a very unique roommate. In fact, all 40,000 people at Purdue were unique, because it isn't populate by clones.
Yes, I remember the cafeteria cuisine. It mostly sucked. Mostly.
Yes, I remember the caffeine-fueled all nighters and then dragging myself to class to turn in the papers. That's not really an interesting story, though, is it? That was a terrible hint.
That's it?! That's what most people take away from college?!
"Uh, yeah, man, my roommate was WEIRD! And the food sucked! And, oh, man, sometimes, I'd stay up REALLY late and then I'd be, like, all tired and stuff in class the next day! Uh...that's pretty much it!"
Nice life.
Workplace
But seriously folks...
First I worked for a home video company and produced a documentary on alien abductions. I even got to interview Betty Hill who, with her husband Barney, was among the first people to report having been abducted by aliens (this was back in the '60s). She was a very sweet old lady when I interviewed her but she had a ton of cats and they smelled, so she got kind of p.o.'d at us when she offered to "make dinner" for me and the production crew and we refused. I'm sure she got over it. At least I hope she did...she died last fall. Seriously, though, no disrespect intended...she really was a very nice lady.
(I did a lot of other stuff at that company but who wants to read about me filling out paperwork or having meetings with people who catalog film footage?)
After that I went to work for a company that made video games for computers. That was fun but after a while the company decided to move to Texas (because as the company owner said, "Nobody in Chicago knows how to program"). Whatever dude.
So I stayed here and, it being the middle of the .com boom and all, started an internet company with one of the guys I worked with at the video game company. That's been fun and I really do enjoy building sites for people to help them get more out of their business. But "programming websites" doesn't SOUND fun so I needed something else, too...
Through my wife, I met a guy who knew a guy who had started a toy company and we bought into the company. Of course I only did it so that I could say that I had a fun job making toys.
(that's not true...I did it to make money because I'm a greedy you-know-what like most Americans)
And for those of you who knew me and knew that I had an awfully hard time keeping my big mouth shut back in high school, you would probably not be surprised to know that recently I started doing commercial voiceover work. But it's FUN. Seeing the theme here yet?
So that's that.
Military
Military? Yes, it's true...I'm an Army of one. In a world...at a place...in a time...eh, nevermind.
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