Kirk Update - 10.8.07

Greetings all! It makes me happy to be able to add new names to The List every day. With each one I know I'm closer to not leaving someone out. Also, I hope Tess is receiving this...I've got a handfull of addresses for her now. = )
I don't mean to be boring, but we had another awesome day with Kirk. Just Diana, Andrew and myself today. The calm before the love storm coming tomorrow through Sunday.

We've been pretty consistent about getting over there by around noon. I want to give Kirk and Tim plenty of time in the morning to get through their morning routine. We brought Zaxby's today. Kirk made short work of the half of his chicken finger meal I put on a plate for him. I looked over and he was scraping a plastic fork around the little tub of sauce trying to get every little drop. I rolled my eyes and gave him the second half of the meal. FYI, Liz confirmed with her mother that one of the meds he's still on is likely causing him to want so much food. So probably not hypothalamus damage as I had previously suspected (thanks Professor Glendening and your Brain and Behavior class!).

We put Back to the Future in today. AKA My Most Favorite Movie Of All Time. I had really been looking forward to watching it with Kirk and my siblings. We were all over it. Kirk especially. While Diana, Andrew and I discussed the complexities of time travel and the rich detail of the Hill Valley universe, Kirk was preempting lines and making sound effects for actors' facial expressions. And laughing lots. I know I've mentioned it before, but the laughing is the best part of my day lately. Don't worry, Marty made it back to 1985. It was really close, but he did it.

Diana left to get her schoolwork finished for tomorrow while we gents watched the end of The Abyss. Kirk knew the character names before they were mentioned which was excellent. Sort of a downer movie though...I mean, everything's awesome in the end, but people are dying or almost dying or being left for dead in the cold dark depths of the ocean. So...I guess I'll be a little more mindful of what we watch. Mayhaps Ghostbusters II or Harlem Nights tomorrow? We'll see.

So everything that was good before is still good and getting better. He's getting up off the couch by himself pretty regularly. Speaking a fair bit and has never dozed off while we're there. Which is amazing since we're usually there for like 6+ hours. Paralyzed, my ass.

The blog and Flickr pages are up! kirklawrence.blogspot.com Everyone be sure to thank Joe for taking lead on that one. For now you can find all the previous Kirk Updates, but I think it would be cool if people blogged (or submitted to be blogged) their own accounts of their visits with Kirk, well wishes, etc. Also, thanks everyone for the Flickr pictures. I have some new ones from you guys plus my own digital stash to get uploaded. I have older pictures, but I need to find time to scan them. I think these will be very cathartic projects for all of us, but maybe especially for those that can't make it up to see Kirk.

I hear word that the Tallahassee Roller Girls have shown an interest in visiting us in sunny Atlanta. I must say, I get in (pretend) trouble with Mrs. Lawrence every other minute at their house. Usually for bringing over too much food or having a beard or letting her son ride a skateboard. I'd love to see her face if I escorted two dozen beautiful, rough and tumble, skater girls into her house. Seriously, I think it would be fun as hell. I've suggested not this weekend but next weekend? Think on it, ladies.

Well, I'm to bed. Miss Sally "Butter" Neuman, Amanda and Kimberly arrive in 6.5 hours. Then Devon later in the afternoon. Also we received Steve and Pura a little while ago. Tomorrow is gonna be fun.

-John