my life as a nomad

who died and made you king of the zombies?

kids are hilarious. i was giving matt and stephen a ride to church today, when out of the blue, stephen asks me, "patrick, why is your head so big?" i replied that it's because i have to store my massive amount of brains somewhere. then he asked, "so why is your nose big, too?" got me there, kiddo. then in sunday school, we were talking about bodyguards (like the ones king david had in 1 chronicles 11), and coming up with ideas with who we'd want for our bodyguards, when jenny decided that since i didn't actually have any bodyguards with me right there, i was open to an attack from the paparazzi, so she held a pretend microphone in my face and started asking my all sorts of randomly funny questions. it's hard to keep a class full of 4-6th graders under control when you're laughing pretty much non-stop. such are my sunday mornings... love it

just finished watching shaun of the dead... i've said it before, and i'll say it again, that movie is simply hilarious. comedy of the highest caliber, albeit with a slightly elevated gross-out factor. but i was thinking afterwards, i wonder where it'd rank in my all-time favorite movies? so i decided to find out. first, i'm making a list of all the movies i can ever remember seeing. then, i'll prune it down a little and rank the top hundred or so. i've only listed up through the M's so far, and it's just shy of two hundred movies... which is slightly sickening. i've watched this much film in my life?? and many of them i've seen more than once (and some, like muppets from space, are well into double digits). so it's turning out to be a grander undertaking that what i first envisioned, but that's ok, cause i don't have anything else pressing going on in my life right now

my sister is moving out of the house this week. which is a giant thumbs-up for her, but a time of sober sadness for me. even though she's not really leaving (i mean, she still goes to college in the area and all that jazz), she won't be around the house with as much regularity. which means no more surprise attacks on her with the kazoo, waking her up on easter morning by bouncing around and throwing jelly beans in the air, watching movies at obscenely late hours just cause we feel like it, or spur of the moment trips to wendy's. sigh. but it's all good... just weird. life's like that. won't be the same around here without ya, liz. and don't be upset if i move into your room :)

summer can't come soon enough. only five more weeks of work... i've been there full-time for just about exactly a year now (which is hard to believe), and i've worked there for just a little over four years, off and on while in school. after the road trip this fall, i'll hopefully be moving on to phase 2 of my post-college existence, which is looking like it will exclude a career in the warehouse, thank goodness. but as for now, the daily grind is getting old mighty fast, so i'm looking forward to camp this summer in a major way. woot




the song itself isn't spectacular to listen to, but i love the lyrics...

i don't know if it's just me 
but it seems that things aren't changing 
every day is pretty much the same 
with a little rearranging 

if i do nothing i can't fail 
no blistered hands, no broken nails 
killing time, i'm paralyzed 
with bitter dreams and hollow eyes 

i've been waiting for a revelation 
for a moment of clarity 
conflicts and convolutions 
ricochet inside of me 

there comes a time for throwing caution to the wind 
and so my life begins...

(fif)

posted by Patrick @ 11:23 PM