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the 'zombie' clause

2005-09-15 / 4:40 p.m.
some of the sumacs are getting splotches of fall color. pretty soon, the trees will be an explosion of fruity colors, then bare bones before i can blink an eye. vin says he gets depressed in the fall and doesn't understand why anyone enjoys that season. he says people see the 'pretty leaves' but he thinks that the trees are raining corpses. i had no idea i would be married to someone with goth tendencies. goth people love autumn and halloween don't they?

i love and hate fall too. love the colors, the flirtations of summer as she's exiting stage right. i hate the mold count. i feel like i'm going to die, my allergies throw such a tissy fit.

have some ideas about how i would like my art direction to go next year. i think i'm gonna turn my home into a by appointment gallery. i had some name ideas popping in my head:
heart of hindustan gallery
house of hamsa
sugar shack
busy beaver gallery

readers: which one do you like best?

EMT class is kicking my ass. academically, i'm doing well, but i have to make an effort to study each day. balance that, art, writing the book, home life, recovery, rest time, and i start to feel overwhelmed. last saturday i had such a shitty day at work (i think because of these mixed stressors) that i didn't go to a music show because i didn't want to be around drinking. instead i stayed home and vin and i watched the new "Dawn of the Dead", something that vinnie had been wanting to do with me for a while.


the gore didn't bother me, it was the zombies that ran that scared me. sure, creeping zombies, yeah--i can outrun a fucking gimpy assed zombie. but THESE zombies were olympic sprinters. i'm not out of shape, but if i were in that movie, i'm sure they would have gotten me. vinnie doesn't agree because he says i have good zombie killing instincts, for example i jumped up and down on the couch when the movie got to the part with the zombie baby. without hesitation, i was yelling, "kill the fucking baby, you idiot!!! kill! kill!" note: i don't think that makes me a good zombie killer, it just makes me really scared of having a zombie baby.

this conclusion led me and vinnie to include a 'zombie clause' when we write our wills. if one of us gets bitten or attacked by a zombie, we give each other permission to shoot each other in the head.

someone asked, "what about vampires?" well, i'm not too worried about that. i'm sure we would manage as bloodsuckers. i just can't deal with being all rotten and having to eat human flesh for the rest of eternity.

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