Current mood:	At Ease
Current music:	"Mr. Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan

The Life and Times of Zachary Parker
Though I doubt you care, I thought I'd submit another random sampling of my life as it exists now. My world has changed quite a bit. Although they were my friends, I no longer live with my rowdy beer-guzzling roommates of six months, but now I have my own apartment where I can *gasp* actually hear myself think. It's great. You'd think I'd have more time to get things done, and while I do have more time, there are complications.



Aren't we disgusting? Yes, everything is going well...even better than well, really well.
She now occupies 90% of my waking thought, and even though she's two hours away from me during the week, most of my time. But it's great. Be happy for me. I command it.

High School has let out, and finacial circumstances being what they are, I am forced to get a summer job. Luckily, I was able to go back to my old place of college employment, PENMAC, which pays a fat $10.50 an hour to match toothless skanks up with suitably terrible jobs canning pickles and/or plucking chickens. It's great.

(You should check out the PENMAC website. It's pretty cheesy. None of the people pictured have ever worked for the company. They just got some generic multi-cultural office place clip art and slapped it on the website.)

I have so much stuff packed into my summer, I don't think there's any room for an added activity.

Every weekend is slated to either A) Visit the Girlfriend, a Two Hour Drive or B) Entertain the Girlfriend while she visits. Every weekday consists of work 11am-8pm, intermittentlyfollowed by a late-night gym trip, unpacking spree (still not totally moved in yet), a gushy phone call (like I said, disgusting), sporadic hanging out with the friends, picture hanging, poster framing, dinner-cooking, you-name-it... in short, I'm accomplishing nothing, but it's fun.

I have one big trip planned for the summer: I'm going to the gigantic comic con in San Diego, CA on July 13th-17th, where Reed and Hppire will also in attendence. I'm looking forward to that. I'm in the process of making comic books and t-shirts and maybe some posters for the trip.

I also have several small trips to Silver Dollar City planned. (That's the local theme park of Branson, MO.) I took Rachel there this weekend, and she's nuts about it. And now that I plunked down the money for season passes, we have to use them.

On the Fourth of July, I have a big float trip planned with my family. If you don't know what a float trip is, I'm sorry. It's where you take a canoe and float down a river. We Missourians think that that is fun.

Not to mention, about four-hundred weddings.

So, that's my life. But I give you my personal pledge to snap out of it and get back under control. After all, there will be plenty of time for rest in the grave, and if I don't accomplish something, I will fail to leave my feeble imprint on the highly-maleable face of this world...

Plus, I'm bound to get bored soon, and I'll need something to do.

I FINALLY get internet at my home tomorrow. I will be connected once again.

And thanks for putting up with me.

Final Comment: Life is Good