Archive for July, 2007
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Schoolin’
Before I was in summer school I had time to write stuff and cook stuff. Now Post Colonial Literature takes up good chunks of that time, and instead of cooking up delicious meals for myself, I am constantly finding myself foraging through my cupboards and fridge and hodgepodging things together. Halfway through the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in bachelor life, graduate school by Aaron Humphrey
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
PDXtreme!!
I usually like flying into Oregon because there are lots of clouds and everything looks wet and green. This time there were no clouds, no rain and the horizon looked like a blurry line of orange. It was hot and dry when I stepped off the plane. Even at 9 p.m. it was bright as [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Corin Tucker!!, Oregon, Sleater-Kinney, friends, music by Aaron Humphrey
Friday, July 6th, 2007
Action-Time Movie Reviews!
On the morning of the 4th of July, Ed and I celebrated our freedom by going to see Transformers and The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. There were a surprising number of people at the theater considering we got there around 9 a.m. I thought I would review these movies for [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in comics, movies by Aaron Humphrey
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
On Suits
I’ve never been much of a clothes person. I have historically based my fashion choices first on not wanting to look like someone else and secondly not wanting to spend more than 15 seconds thinking about it. So when I lived in Oregon I wore basically nothing but Hawaiian shirts, and then when [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in fashion, office life by Aaron Humphrey
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Six- or eight-thousand years ago THEY LAID DOWN THE LAW
This is just a post to publicly declare that I am a fan of the B-52s.
I know this will come as a disappointment to some members of my family, but please understand that it is just very hard for me to not like a band that yells out strings things that don’t make sense in [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in family, music by Aaron Humphrey
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
On Running
They say that distance running is all mental. It’s not true of course. Chess, perhaps, is all mental. Running is physical. It takes takes bone, muscle, joints, lungs … and when you run you feel them all.
I ran my third 5k of the summer this morning, adding Villa Park alongside Saddleback [...]