not done ending the year

hard to say, but i can't really condemn 2006. i mean, sure there is some temptation to say it was a particularly not great year, but then on the other hand i've learned a lot this year. i think maybe the biggest thing is a sense of how far i have to go in getting everything together. it's tough to consider it all at once, which is why i often make no progress at all. i was thinking as i was walking over to a friend's apartment that she would probably notice my new sneakers. she did, and she thought they were cool. a fair number of people think i have cool shoes. you know why i have cool sneakers? it's because i spend inordinate amounts of time shopping for sneakers. i recently did a phone interview in a shoe store. that was actually brilliant, because i was at some huge record shop and there was no way i could do a phone interview there. i knew the shoe place would be relatively quiet; it was actually rather perfect. i found some amazing shoes there actually; they were like sneakers you can wear to work and get away with it. i'm going to have to go back and find those again.

the point i'm making, having judiciously abandoned the original topic, is that i spend too much time shopping for shoes. at least, that is, i spend more time shopping for shoes than someone who really had all his priorities in line. i think a lot of people might think i spend too much time listening to music, but lately i don't listen that much outside of office hours. the office is actually fun enough that i don't listen all day at the office either. as for the shoes, it's true that i am always looking for the next pair of awesome sneakers; this last time i bought essentially the perfect pair but 1/2 size too small because there was only the one pair in that style. the color was the key; green with pink highlights. i've gotten my money's worth out of these, but i'm conflicted. half the time i am sure they're gonna be fine, the other half the time i figure i need to stop wearing them before i do something weird to my feet. they've been so liberating though; for some reason i have no problem trashing these. a good sneaker looks best with some wear, but the last pair i had (blue with yellow accents) are made with nicer suede that i don't want to see all dirty. there was a point when i had to cut things out of my life; i took sports. i still haven't gone back to reading about sports as much as i would've 2 years ago, but it's come back because i've been too dispirited to go for the other hobbies. aren't you supposed to be artistic when you're down? i think there's a difference between depressed and dispirited. it's the best word i can come up with; anyway, i took about one tenth the number of photos in 2006 that i did in 2005. it's nuts. actually, maybe it's a a fifth. still, i find myself really wanting to buy a used video game system (yes i had one before the move, but didn't play often) because there's little to do. oh well, it's a step towards something.