sometimes i wished i smoked cigarettes. i know it sounds juvenile and makes no sense but it just looks cool. there's just such a nice aesthetic about it. it seems like all the cool people in history smoked like james dean and marlon brando, bob dylan, all the greats.maybe it's also because i grew up around smokers my whole life that i have a subconscious or not so subconscious affinity for the habit. i just love to watch people smoke. i just can't express how cool smoking is. everything about it is just so...cool....i can't think of any other word appartently to describe it. if only there were a way to smoke without all the nasty side effects. hmmm. this will be my next major project. come up with a way to smoke that is actually good for you and not detremental to your health.
in other happening in my life lately besides my daydreaming about old movie stars smoking, i came home last sunday to the welcoming smell of rotting food in my refrigerator. apparently when i left my apartment to go home for christmas break i accidentally turned off my breaker for the refrigerator instead of the hot water heater. in my defense they are not labeled at all so it was an honest mistake really. because of this mistake i've been spending the last week to try and get the smell out of the fridge. it's been sitting outside by my door for the last week so i can air it out. i guess a positive side of this situation is that it was about time for me to clean the fridge anyway so at least this kind of forced me to do it.
i also started my very last semester of grad school. i decided to take a couple more classes that i don't really need because if i take below 3 credit hours i have to start paying my student loans back this summer. i have no idea if i will have a job this summer. which is actaully a nice segueway to mention one of the classes i am taking which is called "homelessness in america." i think it's going to be a great class. the first day our professor played woody guthrie AND bob dylan. i was totally sold of course. it was really cool how she tied in the lyrics of this land is your land and bob's last thoughts on woody guthrie to talk about homelessness....the other two classes i'm taking are human sexuality and weight lifting. the sex class is the one i actually need to take, for my counseling certification and personal reasons. jk, sort of. the weight lifting i signed up for because i figured if i take a class where you are graded on exercising then i might actually do it. we'll see. i'm ready to get in shape though. by the end of this semester i will be putting arnie to shame. he's actually not looking too hot these days anyhow so that might not be very difficult.
in some good news i got to see willie nelson this week, again. i love how he never changes...anything. with other performers that might be annoying but with willie it's just kind of comforting in a way. like this guy has been around so long and he still sticks to what works. i actually got free tickets because, surprise, i hung out by the buses again. they were actually having some "special party" for people that had connections to the venue. this guy named harper asked me for a light and we started talking and i just casually mentioned that i didn't have any tickets and he just happened to have a few extra. the tickets were 54 bucks so there was no way i could afford one. it was just a really nice night. there were these younger dudes walking around and i just figured they were roadies or something but i found out later once i saw them on stage that one of them was Lucas, Willie's son, who had apparently grown up a lot since i last saw him a couple years ago on the ball part tour. he's gotten a lot beefier and grown some facial hair. i really didn't recognize him until i saw him on stage and he started doing the familiar weird stuff with his mouth like stevie ray vaughn used to do. he actually has his own band now that opened for willie called "40 point" i think. they played mostly covers but they were good ones. i was impressed with their versions of king harvest and jealous guy. Lucas sounds so much like willie though. it was almost hard to tell them apart at one point when they were doing a duet. i wished i had gotten some pictures but my digital camera decided to not work anymore unfortunately.
