CTY

[rivkat]

Anyone out there go to CTY? I recently saw it mentioned on a nerd purity test, which reminded me of my many good experiences there. I went to law school with a woman who recognized me from CTY, though I with my terrible memory for names and faces was useless. (There must be a good latinate term for that, like facialnomial memory or something.)

Anyway, one year I was there, I heard a song at a talent show, the basics of which have stayed with me to this day. It was called Checkup to My Heart, and it was about a dentist:

...That's what the fact is,
You'll be a dentist with a private practice
I want to be the only one who's on your dental chart
Let me in your office
Give a checkup to my heart
(Doot, doot, doo doo doo doot)

I would love to find some other person who remembers this, but even if I'm the only one, at least it's been preserved for posterity.

My back is killing me. I don't know why.

Comments

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Um. I remember this, and I went to CTY, but I have no idea if those two facts are actually connected.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're connected, as far as I know. If I was unclear, the talent show was *at* CTY and I'm pretty sure -- in part because of Google searches turning up no trace of the song and in part because of my memory of the point of the talent show -- that the composer was a fellow geek. Any clues?

So that would have been after my 7th or 8th grade year, probably 8th. Dickinson College, I think, though I went to two different Pa. campuses that year. I had a lot of fun, and I'm told I wore large earrings. I saw my first production of Twelfth Night there, put on by a roving band of thespians, and learned to despise ballerinas for only eating salad and ice cream bars, because we geeks desperately wanted someone to look down upon. I played a lot of Spades.

I wonder if we knew each other at all? I've met one other person twice (online and physically), and not made the connection until sometime later. She commented on some of my XF stuff, and then I interviewed her for a clerkship with my boss. She ended up clerking for both of my bosses, actually, which is funny because the Justice considers the Internet to be something like rocket science: complex, and only for experts. Thank goodness he's wrong.

Anyway, nice to hear from a fellow CTY graduate.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

No idea about the identity. Haven't thought of it in years til you posted the lyrics, and have no idea whether it was an original composition or made up for the talent show.

I was at Dickinson, but for two years in a row, no idea when it was. And I spent most of my time playing some weird version of D&D, so it sounds like we didn't run in the same circles.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I went to CTY but I don't remember the song, sorry. I was at Dickenson in '87-'89. My talent show memories are mostly Rocky Raccoon and a song I still have never heard or identified anywhere else, that began "tonight I leave you there, where I found you, starting up a hill..."

By the way I recently met a 19 year old CTYer -- apparently the culture has morphed in all kinds of fascinating directions in the ten years between us.

Mer