Times have changed. I used to always wear my hat backward... everyday... no matter where I went or who I was expecting to see. My grandma hated it. My mom would practically slap me at church. I loved it when my high school film teacher gave me permission to wear it everyday.

I wore really dark black sunglasses anywhere I could even though I often didn't need them. I recently realized after being prescribed lenses that I like having frames of any kind on my face. It's like a nonsensical metaphorical shield from the outside world.

For a while, I dropped the cap and started to wear this velcro wrist band on my left arm and a black shoestring on my right wrist. Girls are obsessed with having some kind of bracelet on to accent their wrists. But I'm a guy. It was obviously weird.

I acquired a pair of actual jogging wristbands and started wearing those everyday while attending college. I also frequent had something around my neck. I have like 7 different "chains" (guys wear chains, girls wear necklaces) a couple of which are homemade. Most of my chains have a "talisman" (my guy way of saying a pretty charm). One looks like a ninja star, another is a chinese symbol for Tiger or something, one is a symbol for the Klingon empire (I think)... I also recently (about a year ago) acquired a strange key from an antique shop. I think it's supposed to open some kind of safe deposit box 'cause it's not shaped like a normal key. But my favorite chain has been a wallet chain which came attached to (wait for it...) a wallet given to me my grandmother. I at first, refused to use the wallet because I don't like to acknowledge gifts from this woman (she is horribly selfish and even though she is on welfare or retirement or whatever it is she gets, she still expects my dad to pay her back a debt for having helped us once with our rent when she's been mooching off of us for years... I don't like her). But I liked wearing the chain to college. It fits perfectly around my neck. Just tight enough to look like a choker but not so tight that I would have to be a complete idiot to wear it.

I've since gone back to wearing my hat everyday (only now it's forward) and the most important thing I usually bring with me (aside from my cel and wallet) is my flashdrive. I would die if I lost that. I've already lost two. One of them just up and disappeared at college and my girlfriend accidentally broke the other one. "Accidentally"..? Or Maliciously..? She was kind of upset that I was spending more time on the computer than with her. Oh well.