Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Return
What if instead of rambling entries about unrelated subjects, I wrote this weblog as a series of short regular columns? It would probably look something like this…
Return of “You Know You’re a Bachelor When“:
You know you’re a bachelor when your dinner of leftover Rice-A-Roni is accompanied by a rum and coke — not because [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Oregon, bachelor life, comics, etymology, fashion, music, wanderlust by Aaron Humphrey
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
You know you’re a bachelor when…
You know you’re a bachelor when you wouldn’t have bothered to make dinner if you had found that half-eaten box of Cheez-Its buried under the dirty clothes.
No Comments » - Posted in bachelor life by Aaron Humphrey
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Personality Type
I learned recently that it’s possible to get a doctorate degree studying the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test. Now, as a graduate student in creative writing I clearly have no business assessing how useful or legitimate someone else’s course of study is, so I will just say that there must be something to it [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in office life, personality tests, superfriends by Aaron Humphrey
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Days of Rage — part 1 (?)
OK, here is a small bit of the story that I’m currently working on. It’s going up here because I don’t have anything else ready to post, and because I thought I might be able to get a little bit of feedback from y’all about it. I’m *this* close to re-writing the whole [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in days of rage, fiction by Aaron Humphrey
Monday, September 24th, 2007
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I’m totally stuck in my “Days of Rage” story, which is supposedly due in just a few days.
I have written and rewritten the same parts over and over again, and I am totally sure that it sucks.
This is not writer’s block, because I know what I am writing and what happens next.
This is like … [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in days of rage, graduate school by Aaron Humphrey
Friday, September 21st, 2007
Nobel Prix
Sometimes I can’t wait to quit my job. Dressing up each morning and sitting in a cubical all day long just isn’t that much fun. But I have to admit that every once in a while I’ll get a cool assignment or get to brush arms with someone famous or amazing. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in amazing mail, office life by Aaron Humphrey
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
My Date with Coolio
Last Thanksgiving I went to Catalina Island with my friend Kyle and — I kid you not — I met Coolio. I ended up sitting right next to him in a bar. Once anyone finds that out, they want to hear the whole story. Then, they invariably want to hear it again. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in gangster's paradise, videos by Aaron Humphrey
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Going to see The White Stripes!
A couple of months ago, I bought two tickets to see the White Stripes on day in September. I’d just ended a very short romantic relationship, but I was sure that by the time September rolled around, I would be able to find another girl to go with.
The problem was that I couldn’t ever [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in music, romance by Aaron Humphrey
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Keep On Rockin’
I’m writing a short story set in 1969, which seems to be a time when a lot of people felt that the times were a changin’. Of course, the times are always changing, but at some point, it seems that people stopped thinking that they could be a part of that change.
In [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in days of rage, music by Aaron Humphrey
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Bring me more moped!
I got a regular 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. job before most of my friends did (actually, many of them still don’t have a comparable “daily grind”), and t’s taken them a while to learn that for a good chunk of the day I am not really free to chat on my cell phone. [...]