The Marvelous Patric

Dear blog,

I've been sick for like the past week.  It's been sucktacular.  I lost my voice.  This obviously delighted some people quite a bit.  I think my immune system is fried from having to repair that nerve in my head.  I feel like any slight breeze and I get sick.  
At least the nausea has passed.  My doctor and I reckoned it was the meds, so we played around with that.  I'm now not in pain and I'm not throwing up.  Now if I can just get past this massive cold, I'll be awesome-possum.  
I feel super sleepy right now, tho.  And I'm at work, then class, then I need to get a haircut so I look pretty when I renew my driver's license tomorrow.  
It's unfair to be busy when sick.  

I have found a new internet radio station that I love.  It is K-Rock 2 from NYC.  And it is perfect.  

School is going well this semester.  I'm loving the play writing.  The play I'm writing doesn't feel like any play I've ever seen.  It feels a lot faster and snappier.  Also, the cast is sprawling with characters that only have like one or two lines.  I would imagine it would be a nightmare to put on.  And the set!  Oy, the things I envision for the set.  And the way I would want it to function!  Lots of hidden doors and stuff.  And there's stunts galore.  Basically, I'm trying to make a comic on stage, I think.  But, I love it.  I love writing it and I love hearing people read it.  

The house is coming along beautifully.  Rock has kicked ass on the living room.  The new walls and ceiling are gorgeous.  And now we're refinishing the floor.  This has never been done in the 120+ years of the floor's existence.  It took a lot of sanding to get all the wax and gunk off.  I was sick and sleeping while this was going on.  But, from what I hear, it was hard to do.  Rock had rented a nice floor sander, but it proved to be ineffective.  He then used a hand sander and that worked.  Then the floor sander again.  Next, the stain and varnish.  
Anyone whoever thought that house wasn't worth anything clearly was wrong.  It's like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree... all it needed was a little love.  And my brother Rock is a very talented carpenter, even if he doesn't think so.

On Saturday, I'll be in a prime of life.  I'm cool with that.  My life is awesome.  I've got school going well, I'm looking towards my doctorate and teaching.  And I'm dating the woman that I'm going to spend the rest of my life with.  It's weird, because I think I used to think that sort of relationship would be scary. But it's not.  It's calming and I feel not excited or jittery or anything like that.  Instead, I feel calm and content, which is way better. 

Current Location: the office
Current Mood: content
Current Music: K-Rock 2

dear blog,

it is over. the girl has left me.

it was her, not me. she couldn't work with my Catholicism against her fundamentalism. i didn't believe in the absoluteness of the bible the way she would.

sigh.

i thought things were going well. i knew religion was a sore spot, but i didn't think it was insurmountable. i thought it we wanted to, we could make it work. it wouldn't be easy, but it was doable.

the only thing i feel okay about is i know i tried. it wasn't me. i didn't fail. it just wasn't meant to be. there wasn't anything more i could do.

so now, i'm back at square one. sometimes, life gives you a ladder, sometimes it's a chute.

Current Mood: sad

dear blog,

Wow, look at that, only ten days between posts! Amazing!

I think 2008 is Year of the Patric. I've been saying this for a while now, but now that i've blogged it, it's official. Things seem to be going well for me. I'm feeling good about my chances of getting into grad school. I got lasiked. I got my Mustang. I'm feeling good.

And.... well, there are rumors circulating in the internets and tabloids that I may have been spotted around town in the company of a human female.

I can neither confirm nor deny these rumors at this point.

Dang paparazzi!

I don't want to say much about it because I don't want to jinx it. It's a little known fact that acknowledging good things before a certain grace period is over will destroy them. I see this blossoming relationship as a fragile and delicate thing, like a rare egg of an endangered species that is made out of a soap bubble. It is ever so precious and delicate. I must be careful not to shatter it.

My new computer has come. I got a Mac Pro 2.8 ghz 8-Core behemoth. I named it Zapp Brannigan. It is very powerful. I put a second monitor card in it and got another ADC to DVI converter and now have three monitors! One of the three, of course, is my Cintiq. I have drawn only one FNS comic with it so far, but I loved it! I feel the interest in hand lettering with it. I'm going to wait until the end of "Sad Little Life" before I do anything like that, though, because I want the finished story to have some kind of consistency to it when I put it into a book.

All in all, things are going well, and I think I'm about to make some big life changes for the better. 2008 is the Year of the Patric.

Current Location: work
Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: "One Chance" - Modest Mouse