I was in a chick fil a the other day and apparently vacation bible school (vbs) had just gotten out cause there were about 900 children in XL neon green shirts running around. i always feel kinda wierd around children of people i don't know cause in my mind society has created this stigma that pretty much says all single males are pedophiles, especially if they like hang out at chuck e cheese to drink beer... anyway i didn't get any dirty looks or anything i just felt very uncomfortable. something else about kids, they have no concept of space, while i was standing in line to order, 5 kids came up and stood in front of me close enough for me to smell there vbs smell. have you ever noticed you have to be between the ages of 8 and 12 to work at chick fil a?

I watched 3 movies in a row last week that were pretty depressing/intersting, first was Wristcutters, then then Rocket Science, and then I watched the Savages with philip seymore hoffman. I was most excited about the savages, but the whole movie i just wanted it to be over, but it never was. before that i while i was watching rocket science i kept waiting for it to be funny and good, but that never happened either. on a whim i watched wristcutters, which actually made me laugh out loud, it was tom waits and other fun characters, not to mention that this movie is really cute. strange huh. so anyway i recomend wrist cutters but none of the others. oh yeah and i also finally saw prince caspian, and i don't think the movies are bad, but there not great, so i wish someone would get fired and the right someone get hired quick, i want these narnia movies to be as great as the books were when i was a child, i don't think that thats asking too much.

i've been working in rockwall, tx lately on a big job, which happens to also be the new hometown/churchplant of joe mccormack. last tuesday night i spent an hour and a half pulling a cast iron tub out of the wall and five feet across the room, it was horribly back breaking. there is something neat about being in a new city by yourself, its like you feel invincible when your in a city where no one knows you. the cigar shops in rockwall give away free shiner on tap or jacob's creek cab/merlot, not to mention they are sooper cheap. supposedly rockwall is the richest city in texas. i notice that when the subject of my being in seminary or that i go to church comes up with my customers i notice that they become especially christian... for instance, with this last set of customers they were complaining that the tenets of the house that i'm now remodeling were korean (which in their mind explains all sorts of oddities and annoyances), so later it came up that i was a youth pastor at a korean church last year, and after that the bible verses that they were able to quote began-a-flowing. specifically when home depot didn't have the tile they wanted, they chalked that up to God closing the "door" i quickly reminded the customer that we were dealing with floors and not doors, he just walked off. the first night i was there i went to starb%$#@s to read but ending up chatting with a pakistani named basil for 3 hours about food, wine, and cigars (he was a chef). toward the end of the conversation he told me he was muslim, it occurred to me that maybe he had purposefully held this back for as long as he did, and might be in the custom of keeping his faith to himself, maybe to avoid prejudice types, which i thought was sad, but also so completely different from being a christian in this country. its so easy for me to say i'm a christian, for the most part it usually is greated with some version of relativity, but muslim of pakistan origin living in Texas, I could see why he might not be wearing a shirt that says..."muslims do it facing the east???" or something like that.