Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:17:37 GMT

To be honest, I couldn't exactly tell you why I'm coming back for this...reunion type thing. I spent two-and-a-half years at Degrassi before I was shipped off to boarding school. I was barely acknowledged, truthfully. Five years out of high school and I never planned on going back, but the moment that card arrived in my mailbox in my walk-up in downtown Toronto, I knew I was trapped. I guess you can say I was excited, but...I can't really explain how I'm feeling right now. Nostalgic, especially. I didn't do anything specific to get sent to boarding school, my mom just decided that I needed a higher level of education and sent me off to Suffield Academy in Connecticut to be taught. As if that really made a difference.

I went to Trinity College and majored in Linguistics and Gender Studies and I'm now living as a poor graduate student in, like I said, downtown Toronto. For those of you knew me, the name's Brooke Concannon. My full name is Brooke Lee Concannon but no one calls me that unless they want my shoe up their ass. I probably sound like an awfully violent person but I'm not. I swear I wouldn't hurt a fly. I was always that girl in the back of your classes with the blank expression on her face that you noticed but you couldn't exactly place where they were from. I'm not making myself sound appealing at. all.

The main reason why I was so absentee in high school was because I was a dancer. And being a dancer was probably the reason I started the whole...starving myself thing. And when my mom finally noticed, she really didn't care, she just packed up my shit and sent me packing to Connecticut. Eventually I got myself some help, but I know for a fact that there isn't a single day when I don't wake up and think that I'm fat. Hip-hop, jazz, ballet, tap. You name it, I most likely did it. I even took a course in African dancing in college. God, I'm uninteresting.

I guess is there where you cue that part of the Eminem song that started with two trailer park girls going round the outside. Well, guess who's back, back again. Brooke is back, tell a friend. I just wanted to get in touch with people so that when I go back to Degrassi and see everyone, there isn't that awkward "..who the hell are you?" moment that always seems to occur with me. If you ever really want to discuss anything, life, whatever, with me, I'm seemingly always on supernova brooke.

brooke.