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So Kristy talks me into driving her to campus to use the ATM. I'm walking to my car to do this chaufferin, and I see this really grizzly looking indian (As I think Ben phrased it, "the dot not the feather") man walking along the road.
Such was the grizzliness of this fellow that I actually considered not opening my car until he passed me, as his trajectory would put him right next to me at the moment I reached my front door, on the driver side even. But I bravely decided to continue unaffected by him. Reaching me however, the man asked me if I could give him a ride the the UCD Primate Center, about I dunno two miles away. Now consider that that this man had given me fears of bodily harm moments earlier, and my friend Kristy was awaiting me under the eaves at Cuarto (it was pleasantly raining). So of course I said yes. Without a sign of apprehension or inconvenience, I readily drove the grizzly fellow to the Primate Center.
I then drove Kristy to campus and back.
Returning, I visited Ray's Food Place, got the supplies for and subsequently manufactured myself a "hell-of salami sandwich," something I of course invented like last week and noted in this livejournal. Oh and I bought English Breakfast Tea to add to my mass tea depository.
THURSDAY
Gave my State of the Court address to the ASUCD Senate. Good times. Then sometime later infamous Senator Gina Lee recommended everyone attent Internal Affairs Commission which had recieved a huge amount of legislation to review (including MULTIPLE constitutional amendments I believe), and immediately two other senators (one of which was Paloma Perez I forget who the other was) immediately raised their placards and warned "Brown Act!."
Now the "Brown Act" mind you is some state legislation that forbids legislatures from meetings secretly, the general rule of thumb is that the media must be notified of intended meetings.
Realizing manifest foolishness was once again in the air I had myself added to the speakers list. While I awaited a turn to speak AA Commission Chair Bob Gill, complained about how the students make fun of ASUCD government. "when I go home in the evening and my roommates ask me where I've been, and I tell them 'student government' they all laugh at me." Yes, he said that. oh boo hoo! Sitting next to him, wise President of the International Relations Student Assn, Shawn Foust, promptly patted him on the back patronizingly.
So I came up on the speakers list and spoke thus:
"I feel the need to address certain agregious misunderstandings of the Brown Act. Firstly, it addresses intended gatherings of legislators, not accidental or coincidental ones, and furthermore, the Internal Affairs Commission is a function of the government, something the media is well aware of, and something you all certainly have the right to attend even under Brown Act considerations.
Additionally, as regards the recent discussion brought up by Bob Gill, government without internal divisions* is a terrible thing, and it is a rare thing indeed to find a public figure not regarded with cynical bemusement by the populace. Thank you." And amid applause, I left the room and proceeded to Olson Hall.
And in Olson Hall you see, the Russian, French, and German clubs once again were having a movie night. In this case the movie was "Brat" (Russian for "Brother," pronounced appx "Brot"), something I was very much enjoying and was very very vexed to have to leave at 21:15, less than half-way through, to go to the MUN Secretariat meeting. Grrawr. Odds of me ever seeing the rest? ehhh I'd say 12.6%.
*Chairman Gill had bemoaned the polarity of our two campus political parties.
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ucdavis at the Senate meeting I really got the feeling it was the livejournal community specifically who was most adament about his resignation.. though I suppose there were a lot of people there for the same reason that weren't members of livejournal.
