The Year of Green Shoelaces Comes To A Close

The year 2006 was red. 2007 was blue. And the for the year 2008, my shoelaces were green. Green for “go”, I said. 

It’s a silly tradition, I suppose, to change the colour of one’s shoelaces every time we enter a new year. It does, however, serve a practical purpose. One day I will look back at photographs and wonder what year they were taken in. If my feet are visible in the photograph, then I need not wonder. I’ll confess though, that my reasons for doing this are not practical. In truth, I don’t know why I do it. I suppose I just like silly traditions.

Speaking of traditions, I have yet another one. Every time new years eve comes around, I reflect on the year passed by simply jotting down a few memorable memories and obnoxious inside jokes. So here it goes. The year 2008 was characterized by:

- Shalane Crosson

- Poo in the shoe

- “Handling” things

- Bugs & Drugs 

- Eugene

- Boating (and docking) with Hunt in Shushwap

- Playing cards in Birch Bay (the moon landing was faked Trevor!)

- Death Cab Guitar Lessons

- “Tell me…”

- Krista punching Hunt in the face

- “You have no dignity”

- Sly Coop

- Hookah and Heavy Metal 

- Human bowling

- Pub with Jason

- Nearly 100 hours of David Attenborough

- Lower Falls

- Mark surprising me at the Yale

- The Dark Tower

- Classic Rock night with Truman and Holtzy

- Burnaby mountain hikes

- Christopher Hitchens

- TAing 253, and meeting so many great students

- Foosball with Robbie

- That time that squirrel came RIGHT IN my apartment

- The alley (you know the one)

- Frankfurt School, Journalism, and Methods

- Starbucks with Brown and Hunt, and the night that followed

- Texting

- Cirque du Soleil with Shalane and family

- Whistler with Diane and Chris

- Burning the couch at Stave (Audrey with the gascan?)

- Dropping bombs

- Flasks of Jager

- Gorgo

- New Years at Ryan’s

- Long nights in the grad lounge

- Brown’s naked ass (unwanted memory)

- Boat cruise

- POTZILLA!!! Weed game in the Ranch before it opened

- Seawall with Evangeline

- Charlie-cat (rowr?)

- SAT Writing Classes (Vocab word: Quinquagenarian)

- White Christmas. TOO white!

- The Huntavirus

- Gough frequenting the Yale

- Drinks and Spaghetti factory with Brown, Mitch, and Hunt 

- Wii Mariokart

- Jenelle on stage “And honey here I am…”

- Eugene again

- Couple (anything)?

- The absence of Greg, Engrish teacher

- Party lighting

- I know there’s more with Brown… but for some reason I can’t remember them…

- The Sheriff (and Fort Awesome in general)

- Rain jogging with Pajak

- Granville Island with Shalane (damn snobby rich people looking at me…)

- Sunday dinners with the fam

- Brickhouse songs: Tribal, Take a Deep Breath, Mystery Train, Because, Three In The Bed, Quicksand, and all the rest

- Tasha (in my thoughts every day)

- Derek and James at the Fairview

- Pandas

- The huge jam session at Bonita

- White night

- Visits from Kels and Rach (and their songs, almost done I swear)

- Jammin with Tyson

- Gillan being a homo

- Trek?

- Jenelle Spicer, too much to list…  you know exactly what’s up

- Brickhouse, and the fulfillment that tradition has brought to my life

- Casa Bonita, and the Ranch, and the deep connections between them

- Tunes

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Each one of those memories will, in my mind, be associated with a pair of green shoelaces. I can only hope that 2009, the year of YELLOW shoelaces, will be just as fun. Happy New Year everyone!