:: Quiche of the Day ::

:: 11.20.2002 ::

My room is getting cluttered again . . . I can’t push my chair back very far cuz there’s too much crap on the floor (no, it’s not actually crap), so I’m crouched with my knees up by the keyboard. That’s ok though, cuz this is the way I usually like to sit. Oh dang it, and I just knocked something on the floor, and I don’t know what it is or where it went. Oh man. Gotta get someone to clean up this stuff for me. Man needs a maid.
Two brief, pretty cool things before I head to bed:
I’ve started a revamped and much cooler movies page, which has screenshots and info about the last couple of movies I’ve worked on. I’ll try to put up more things soon. In theory. No, I promise!
Wow, the wind just blew something else down. Now I have a good excuse!
The number two thing is that apparently they are going to start publishing Disney comics again!! Now I know that Disney is a big, most likely fascist Corporation, but I was raised on comic books based on their characters’ adventures that did not include selling other Disney products. So Disney’s comic book publishers have been less monopolistic (wow, that’s actually a word) than Marvel, DC, Image, etc. Though Donald Duck comics are huge in Europe, no one bought them here. So in this case Disney is the underdog, and everyone wants to root for the underdog, right? Plus if it means seeing new stories by William Van Horn and Don Rosa, and old Carl Barks stories reprinted, and other cool stuff . . . oh man! I’m totally there. You have no idea how long I’ve waited for this.

:: Aaron Humphrey 2:34 reply [+] ::
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I’ve spent the last month is three different states. It’s a little weird.

Utah is cold and dry. No one lives there, but there are still lots of big tall buildings. I guess it’s nice because you get to dress warm, but don’t have to worry about dressing dry like with raincoats and things. Or boots. But it’s too cold to want to walk anywhere or anything. That must be why the twelve people who live in downtown Salt Lake City need all those buildings . . . so they’ll always have somewhere to get warm unless they’re about to freeze to death. The buildings are all pretty nice though . . . they’ve all got sculptures and nice couches and stuff inside, which almost makes up for the outsides.

Oregon is cold and rainy. There’s no sales tax, and there are leaves of all colors on the trees and on the ground. Windshield wipers struggle to keep up and tires slip. I believe this is called aquaplaning. I wish I had an aquaplane that could go into the air and under the water. That would be awesome. Especially in Oregon where the beaches are cold but way dang prettier than any of their counterpoints in California or Utah.

California feels like summer. The air is warm and breezy. No one understands that it’s a month away from winter and grass in a desert shouldn’t be this green. We all drink lots of water from bottles and coolers; everyone seems to mind the tap water except me. There is entertainment here that I didn’t notice during my first year: Hollywood is famous for a reason, and though it’s really not much more than a street, it’s full of clubs and theatres. Most of them are more gritty than they are glamorous. There the key to staying cool is appearing desperate but remaining popular. Here in Orange County cool is all about the front you put up against the grit and the desert.


I’m working on some major updates to this site, so please don’t stop coming!
:: Aaron Humphrey 1:15 reply [+] ::
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Food seems like such a nice, good thing; it’s our nutritional friend, fighting hunger and helping us make it through the day. It hardly seems possible that such a loyal ally could actually poison you, but indeed it can. At least it could to me.
And that’s how I ended up spending a solid 18 hours in a hotel room in Salt Lake City either puking my proverbial (or maybe NOT-so-proverbial . . .) guts out or lying in bed wishing I didn’t have to. I think it was the chicken.

I know you probably don’t care to read any of this, but I discovered quite a few things while I was sick that need to be recorded somewhere. So don’t read if you don’t wanna.

1). If you think your tummy’s just a place for food, you’re wrong. There are many other things in your tummy.
2). These things come in many different colors, and I’m not sure what they are, but I’m certain I didn’t eat any of them.
3). I know, because I sure as heck didn’t put anything blue in my mouth, so I have no idea how in the world that part got smushed in there.
4). It probably needed to come out though.
5). When you are food poisoned, you cannot drink water or you will just throw it up again, and it gets really old.
6). As a result, you spend a lot of time not drinking water and getting kind of dehydrated.
7). Some people say that Ginger Ale stays down better than water. This is true, but only for a little while. When it comes up though, it is at least a more interesting color than water. The same is true when you pee it out. Sorry.
8). You should at least drink something, because being dehydrated sucks a lot and will make you feel more sick. However, the side effects are kind of interesting. For example, I found that I while I still had the ability to close my fingers, I could not keep them curled up, and they would straighten almost immediately after I closed them. In my dehydrated delirium I wondered if this was normal.
9). It’s not.
10). After being food poisoned, it’s hard to know when you’re better because not eating or drinking anything and having your guts ripped out of your guts makes you feel crappy anyway.

A perfect 10!

:: Aaron Humphrey 1:51 AM or 2:05 AM, depending on how you look at it reply [+] ::
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