BABY

Hey everyone, I just wanted to do a bit of a personal update, since things have been fairly blank here for a while.

First of all, my wife is currently 3 months pregnant for our first child :D. So that's really exciting. I'm a guy, so I don't know how to talk about this... so I'll just move on.

Second, I don't know if I've mentioned this on my blog, but I got a new job a few months ago working with people with developmental disabilities. It is a really good job, and the agency has a spiritual care department which I hope to be able to transfer into within the next couple of years. If, at some point, I don't really think that is going to happen, I intend to start looking for a chaplaincy position, but I'll wait at least three years before really pursuing that. I would rather move within this organization since I really like it.

Third, and this is completely unrelated, I've often talked about having "a list" of movies that I really need or want to see. I've never really composed such a list... until now! Some are on the list because, as a lover of film, that are landmark movies that are important for reference. Others are on there because I just flat out want to see them. Then there are a couple that I'm just a tad curious about. So I thought I would print it here and see if anyone has any other films I should probably add (I know there are some, but I only compiled this list in 15 minutes):

* seen it before (or part of it) but don't remember it well

• *All About Eve
• Blade Runner
• * Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Book of Eli
• The Bridge Over the River Kwai
• Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant and K Hepburn)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• * Casablanca
• Die Hard 2 & 4 (Because I've seen 1 & 3)
• Dr. Strangelove
• * Enter the Dragon
• Godfather
• Gone With the Wind
• The Good, the Bad, And the Ugly
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Iron Man II
• The Lady Eve
• Laurence of Arabia
• Mad Max
• The Maltese Falcon
• Modern Times (Chaplin)
• One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest
• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
• * Pink Panther
• Point Break
• Raging Bull
• * Roman Holiday
• The Searchers
• Seven Samurai
• Sunset Blvd
• Thank You For Smoking
• The Third Man
• Toy Story 3
• Tron

Important or interesting film, but not really sure if I should and/or want to see it

• 12 Monkeys
• 2001 A Space Oddessy
• *Animal House
• Annie Hall
• Butterfly Effect (People tell me that its bad, but I'm curious about time paradox stories)
• The Graduate
• Green Hornet
• House of the Flying Daggers
• Inception
• Inherit the Wind (I want to see it for masochistic reasons)
• Kick "butt" (From what I understand, there is a lot of cursing and violence.)
• Saving Private Ryan (Again, a lot of violence)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Watchmen