The ZombieJosh Show

This morning I woke up on the other-other side of the bed, that third side that you wake up on when you're feeling a little bit gross. I was recently given a present by my Sarah in the form of the cold virus (I guess as revenge for getting her sick last November!) and it began manifesting itself today. The general feeling of sickliness coupled with the fact that today marks the third day of wearing the same outfit (due to the fact that we're all staying with my brother at the hospital) has has a synergistic effect on my health and yes, as a result I am now a mouthbreather...

So as I was sitting in church today this family of women (2 daughters maybe 15 and 17 (we'll call them Sally and Molly), and a mother) came in and, realizing that there were no remaining seats, decided to sit next to me. Normally I wouldn't really care about this, but apparently I have the mannerisms of a sex offender because after a few minutes the mom asked Molly if she wanted to change seats with her. Molly decided not to but she was noticeably uncomfortable and defensive. This actually reminded me of another time down in Troy New York at RPI. My friend Ahren and I used to always crash the Zeta Psi parties freshman year before they realized we each ended up pledging at different fraternities and stopped letting us in. The first time I was there (one of the only times the police WEREN'T invited to break it up while we frosh were hidden in the basement) I was getting my drink when a lady comes up to the same cooler (yes cooler, its a pretty ghetto frat) for her own. Of course I noticed her there and she saw me looking at her and she says right off the bat, "Listen, I have a boyfriend so I'm not sleeping with you" to which I remarked, "Don't flatter yourself, you're nothing special". Of course her boyfriend was right there...and about 7 feet tall (Zetes is the basketball frat at RPI). I think the comic below accurately describes what happened next...



And yes that's the Arnold head from "Arnold's Pizzashop".

My family always talks about Josh sitting up randomly and tearing off his IV's and such--but I have actually never witnessed these phenomena until today as I passed by his bed on the way to the restroom. He arose with almost a zombielike stiffness. Instinctively I started beating him down (kidding!), but it was my mom who reacted without thinking and calmed him down by pushing him back onto his bed...Clearly she's done this before, she MUST be the zombieslayer of the year!



I've had the same song stuck in my head--check out "Ain't No Rest For the Wicked" performed by Cage the Elephant.

And that about wraps it up for now! Till next time, stay sunny!

"Silence and Valor"
-B