Today's Lesson About Growing Up

Since I’ve got a real job now, I decided to go shopping for clothes.  See, I used to work at The Gap.  That meant a 50% discount on all regular priced gear.  Since I worked there, it became difficult for me to pay full price for things like jeans.  You know the game–after you’re used to the good life, it’s hard to go back.
The problem, of course, is that I stopped working there around six years ago.  So my jeans look like everyone’s favorite pair of jeans.  Except I’ve got about five of them.
So yeah, ’twas time for an upgrade.  Got tired of rotating a limited supply of shirts and acceptable pants for class, and I had a pair of jeans with a six year-old ink stain in heavy rotation.
The big change in picking up the new gear–the pants actually kinda look like they fit.  I’ve been wearing jeans about four sizes too big in the waist AND already roomy in the leg for a while.  When you’re as skinny as I am, you kinda don’t wanna draw attention to it.  Got broad shoulders, so I could get a XXL t-shirt with those jeans and be in the game.  Only when receiving a hug would my secret be totally revealed.  But hey, that meant a woman had her hands on my waist.  Take the good with the bad, baby.
So today, I’ve got on jeans only two or three sizes too big and not cut to be wide in the leg.  It’s so different, man.  Are jeans really supposed to be kinda tight in the crotch?  Is this really how jeans are supposed to fit?  What did the old folks do back in the day?  Did both dudes and chicks had to take deep breaths before buttoning up?
Adulthood is something, man.  Guess I’ll just have to get in touch with my inner skinny and deal with clothes that, yanno, fit.  It’s a new concept.
I am lookin rather fly, though.
Anyway, all I have to say about the UT-OU game–I TOLD YOU SO.  I said that Texas would maul OU on both sides of scrimmage, and that’s what happened.  This rivalry turns at scrimmage, and that’s just what happened.  I did not expect Texas’ secondary to turn into a bunch of killers, though.  You won’t see a lot of bigger hits than the ones Erick Jackson, Marcus Griffin, Michael Griffin and Tarell Brown were laying on Saturday.  And Aaron Ross had the game I’d been hearing for years that he was capable of.
But get ready–things could swing the way of OU again next year.  Texas will be replacing its three best linemen, and OU has a lot of maturing youth on its D-line.  Plus, Texas will lose the bookends on defense and, possibly, Frank Okam (we now have to consider that guys might leave early from Texas now).
That’s all I got for now.  Gotta plan a lecture and eat in an hour and a half.  I think it can be done.
And if it can’t?  Eh, I’ll come up with some professorial trick.
Do you have any idea how strange it is that I’m the teacher?  Spooky, man.