Not much time for blogging these days. Oh well… Here’s another random update from a couple weeks of rather constant entertainment.
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1. Jennifer and I saw the Kronos Quartet at Emory for $5 about nine days ago (thank you student ticket prices). It was really quite strange – an avant garde string quartet is an interesting [...]
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VARIOUS ENTERTAINMENTS
Posted in Cinema and Film, Life in general, Music, television on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CULTURAL MATHEMATICS
Posted in Cinema and Film, Life in general, Scholarship on December 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
(Sorry for the all caps title, but such looks better on this current blog layout.)
A trip to Ghent, Belgium, told in pieces.
The flights:
The first flight was fine. Only about half full, which makes for a relatively comfortable trip. A remarkably low number of screaming babies. And flying from west to east feels quicker, as one [...]
Just a few things
Posted in Life in general on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hot on the heels of the last time that I hobnobbed with actors, I was supposed to get to meet another this past Wednesday. Emile Hirsch, young actor from “Into the Wild” (and also “Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys”), was in town for a pre-screening of “Into the Wild.” He was to visit Emory’s campus [...]
Randoom
Posted in Atlanta, Cinema and Film, Life in general on September 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Julius, Jennifer’s cat, fell or jumped off the porch Saturday night. (Knowing this cat, I suppose it’s possible that he both jumped and fell off the porch; he has been known to bend time and space and do impossible things in that way…) He was gone for four days, which led to an [...]
Ever feel like you’ve been ripped off by someone with nothing to gain by doing so?
Posted in Life in general on August 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I went and filed all my paperwork and such for my passport this morning.
First, despite the fact that I took the picture myself and used the self serve kiosk, the lady at CVS somehow managed to charge me $9.00.
Second, when I went in to film the paperwork, I was told that it normally takes 12 [...]
Workaholic
Posted in Life in general, Scholarship on August 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It just dawned on me yesterday, after receiving an email that I’ll talk about later in this post, just how much I’ve actually done this summer.
I’ve moved twice; looked into Ph.D. programs; researched the Atlanta Better Films Committee heavily (online, on microfilm, and in two archives so far); had small vacations in California, Nebraska, and [...]
How bad has my morning been?…
Posted in Life in general on July 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
…let me count the ways.
1. I woke up at three a.m. and couldn’t get back to sleep.
2. I had to wait for a very slow moving train for ten minutes on the way to work. (The second train I’ve had to wait for in the last three days, after living in Atlanta for a full [...]
A few things
Posted in Cinema and Film, Life in general on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jennifer left this morning for her month of research in Boston. I’ll visit for almost a week in the middle of August, thanks to the miracle of flight, but the practical upshot of the whole thing is that I’m suddenly going to be inundated with free time for the next couple weeks. So the blog [...]
Random things
Posted in Baseball, Cinema and Film, Life in general, Scholarship, Webster Edgerly, ralstonism, television on July 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
1. Saw my first major league baseball game on Friday night. The Braves crushed the Pirates. Brian McCann hit two home runs (though I didn’t see the first one because we were ten minutes late) and Andruw Jones hit one. Kind of a boring game actually, since it was a blowout, but a game is [...]
Life and such-like
Posted in Life in general on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Not much in the way of blogging lately. I’ve been strangely busy since the move into the new place. I seem to always be either going to work, or shopping for necessities, or doing research, or going to a fourth of July thing, or playing unbelievably strenuous games of badminton all the time.
Oh well.
Nothing much [...]
