patchy jeans / work on a saturday

[supercheesegirl]

so a day or two ago i dug out my patchy jeans. these are the jeans that any normal person would've thrown out a year and a half ago, but since i was poor a year and a half ago, i patched them. and then patched them again, and again. for some reason i stopped wearing them in boston, which could be for any number of reasons, like a) i like wearing them with sandals since i look like a hippie in patched jeans anyway and so didn't want to wear them in winter, b) they're so thin i was probably cold in the winter weather, or c) i realized that i would soon have to put a patch on over another patch and just gave up. but now i've found them again, and they still fit, and i'm excited. i need to get some new fabric: i've found three different spots that need patching plus the entire crotch needs reinforcing. i'm looking forward to the day when there won't be any more denim left on them and they're held together entirely by patches. i need to rip the knees or something, though, because they're pretty much intact below mid-thigh. i think they also need some stains--paint or hair dye or something. yes, i definitely need to wear these jeans more often.

and work on this beautiful saturday afternoon isn't that bad. i'm here at the office because i want to take next friday off for chelsea's visit but i want to save my vacation days for when i'll actually be on vacation in july, so i'm putting in friday's seven hours now. i was really bummed on the way into work this morning--i'll be at Otis House tomorrow, so i get no weekend--but now i'm definitely feeling more chipper. there's no one in the building, so i could streak through HR naked if i wanted to. (i don't want to.) and i'm getting a surprising amount of work done, too. should get back to that now.