Happy New Year!

Not so new anymore, actually. Already the 17th?!?! Shame on me.

For my first blog of 2006, I thought these song lyrics from John Mayer's "Why Georgia" were appropriate. I heard them for the first time on the plane to D.C., listening to my iPod shuffle. I wasn't even aware I had this song - Pam had downloaded it onto my computer when she first got her iPod (don't sue me, RIAA!). And it came on as I'm uncomfortably sitting between my two sleeping companions, and its central question struck me as very appropriate for the beginning of a new year:

I am driving up 85
in the kind of morning
that lasts all afternoon
I'm just stuck inside the gloom

four more exits to my apartment
but I am tempted to keep the car in drive
and leave it all behind

cuz I wonder sometimes
about the outcome
of a still verdictless life

am I living it right
am I living it right
am I living it right

everybody's just a stranger
but that's the danger in
going my own way
I guess it's a price I have to pay
still "everything happens
for a reason"
is no reason not to ask myself

if I'm living it right
am I living it right
am I living it right