The Agrinautica

   Last Week I drove down to the County of Orange (The CO) on Sunday and Returned on Wednesday. This week I went on an epic roadtrip with nine others down to Las Vegas on Friday and back on Monday. Today (Tuesday), I'm in Davis. Tomorrow school resumes, but after class I'm flying down to Los Angeles for the PAXMUN AMPAC MUN Conference in Los Angeles. I return on Sunday.
   Presumably then I will stay put for awhile, but in the mean time I will have travelled about 2,854 miles in two weeks, mostly by car and in a generally back and forth pattern.


Before I left The CO: I came downstairs around dinner time and exclaimed, "it smells like someone's cooking with stout!" To which a suprised mother answered "I'm making stew with stout, how'd you know??" I went on to say "this starfish looks like its got chocolate chips" only to be told it was a "chocolate chip starfish" and be asked if I already knew these things and was just being saucy. In conclusion, I am the next Amir Ghasri Adrian Saint. That and I can smell a good stout at a distance of two furlongs.


Vegas
   I probably don't have time to even begin to update about the Vegas adventure before I embark upon my next one, but at least here's the roll call of shinanigans who were in attendance: Brian "B-Fog" Fogerty, Olivia Pisano (pygmypeach81), Colleen Milton (colleeniebeenie), Julie Parker & Brittawater Segerstrom, Chris "C-Bunch" Bunch, Lyrakeet Fischer, and of course Kristy (basicallyasap), Sashie (slosha)& I.


Emosnail special report: Today one of our secret Emosnail correspondants tracked down a local Deputy DA to find out the real deal on a recent locally infamous case. The conversation went roughly as follows: "So this hit & run..." "gag order." The DA did go on however to enthusiastically endorse the "alpine dog" available at the Fat Cat Cafe for $3.75.


In Jurisprudence Today
   Captured Al-Qaida member Zacarias Moussaoui, currently on trial for involvement in the September 11th attacks, has testified at his trial -- as a prosecution witness. As Moussaoui joined the prosecution team and argued that he had indeed been the intended 20th hijacker, Defense scrambled to defend him against himself and undermine his testimony. (story)

Picture of the Day

Myself, Kristy & the Sashikeet
Note the Bellagio in the background

Previously on Emosnail
   Year & a Week Ago Today: The Reagan Doctrine Meets Somalia - A term paper under construction.
   Year & a Week Ago Last Sunday: Shadiness of Campus Crusade For Christ - And more importantly, compelling evidence that the Emosnail readership is not more biased against religion that the UC Davis community at large, despite what prominent Daily Show celebrities¹ might say to the contrary. Also, Kaplan missed the boat and gave out their Excellence in Student Teamwork Award to some random thing instead of the Daviswiki phenomena which has literally changed life in Davis as we know it, but creator Philip Neustrom is awarded a more prestigious honour: the Sacred Order of Trogdor.
   Year Ago Last Thursday: Symmachies Sammiches & the First Athenian Empire - Actually there are no sandwiches. A term paper under construction.
   Year Ago Last Saturday: Daviswiki Theology - You can actually watch as Brent Laabs spirals into the darkside & becomes the person we know today as Darth Laabs. Also Saul Sugarman discovers wiki & immediately proceeds to edit Daviswiki towards his own fascist paradise -- battles ensue with entrenched wikites across a number of pages, but he makes Ikea his Stalingrad and fights in the spirit of the Soviet slogan "not a single step backwards!"
   Year Ago Today: International Atheist Convention - The Atheist Alliance International convention takes place in Los Angeles. I may or may not have been in that general area hanging out with Penn & Teller.