currently listening to: "young folks" - peter bjorn and john
i think my dad is going through a mid-life crisis. to bring back his youth, he brought back his old levis from the late 1970s, early '80s. surprisingly, these jeans are in pristine condition which leads me to believe that he has kept them stowed away in times of a middle-age panic attack. there is no doubt that these are his current favorite, and only pair of pants that he'll wear. he swears by them and refuses the other pairs of jeans my mom buys for him. instead, he insists that his old levis just look better and feel better. they flare at the bottom like those classic bell-bottom jeans from the '70s. you won't find these jeans anywhere anymore, and even his coworkers notice this and are blown away by my dad's sudden revival of such vintage jeans. maybe my dad just knows that the vintage/retro look is in.. but i really don't think so.
to start off the new year, it seems necessary and quite obvious to start on a completely fresh slate. so, i finally paid off my long over due library fines of $10.75 yesterday . i feel like a brand, spankin' new person. i'm starting off 2007 completely honest, clean, and free of fines. life is good when you can walk into the library knowing that you aren't some sort of criminal anymore.
i purposely avoided the local library for fear of bringing up my pages of overdue library book fines, until recently when i found out that they wipe out your account if it's inactive for 18 months. so i was safe for a pretty good amount of time and i just didn't know it. i went back and got a new library card. i can proudly say that i have a clean slate with them too. it's quite an accomplishment.
at least now the university will have to let me graduate for sure because i've paid them back their $10.75. they can't hold me back now. i've paid my dues, shieeeet.
i could/would/should go over about how 2006 was one of the those shittier years of my life, but i've only been alive 21 years, so that's not much to elaborate on. 2006 has come and gone, and i'm ready to shelve it away so it can collect dust along with all the other years that have gone by. so hey 2007, i hope you'll be nicer to me and to everyone else.
