The Agrinautica

   Once a few years ago I remarked that instant ramen has been such an important invention, its inventor should be on the one dollar bill. I never thought I'd ever find out who it was, but someone else's lj post recently brought the identity of this food messiah to my attention -- and alas, he has died! Momofuku Ando thou art a saint!


   Speaking of saints, the Reverend van Schoedlandt sent me a link to The Brick Testament the other day. For those of you too lazy to follow the link, its stories from the bible reinacted with legos. In addition to going through all the relevant parts in order, for convenience it also has all the Old Testament laws all in one place, and all the Teachings of Jesus in one place (for example, on Marriage vs Castration). So I've had this rather unexpected addiction to reading the bible these last few days.
   And this has brought my attention to some other interesting biblical events, such as the "divine mooning" that occurs in Exodus 33:23, when God says "And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen."
   Intriguing.



   Otherwise, before I was afflicted by the bible, I managed to read the entirity of both UC Berkeley and UC Los Angeles' judicial codes, in preparation for a major overhaul of our own (into which we will additionally integrate the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the California Judicial Guidelines of Ethics). Also participated in discussions of the judicial article for the student government of the university of Illinois, and have been working on finalizing our Case 34 opinion. When not working on judicial or theological projects I've been applying the whip to the AMPAC staff to get their background guides written.

   Meanwhile, I've also been active in the real world. Upon returning from Mexico I had the craving for real Mexican food, so we all went to Fred's for Taco Tuesday, and then Taco Thursday at The Alamo. Interestingly, Fred's as $2 12oz margaritas, or the much better deal of $4 20oz margaritas ..err.. smart!

   Yesterday Kristy & I went to the San Diego Zoo. There were many cute animals, including coatimundis, ratel's and Bornean Prevost Squirrels.
   Of particular note were the anteaters, which as you know is my favourite animal. They chased eachother around quite a bit and wrastled vigorously.

   24:28 06/19/03 - Saw other people today for the first time in a week.

   No really. Other than the five minutes Nick stopped by to bring me my keys I haven't seen anyone else other than my apartmentmates since last friday.
   I hung out with my good friends from freshman year, Garian, and Ben. Ben picked me up and we went to the U-mall starbucks, meaning its also the first time I've been east of the 113 all week. The 113 for you non-Davis types divides West Davis from the rest. West Davis is a cultureless residential morass (But East Davis, deliniated officially by the railroad tracks, is a suburban wasteland. South Davis is distinguished by The Underpass and the 80, North Davis by Covell.). So yea, we hung out at Starbucks and made numerous sexual jokes about the Starbucks mermaid (I didn't even realize that thing was a mermaid previously). Then we came back to chez moi cause Ben and Garian hadn't seen it yet... watched some Jay Leno (David Letterman is far superior, let me tell you). Ben operated the TV of course, because I don't know how to operate our TV, then again however, I've never tried. Aand now they've dispersed. But yea.. that was the social event of my week. Did I mention my life sucks ass right now?

   I fell asleep this morning and woke up wearing my IHOP baseball cap.


   Addendum 26:53 - So I was in a hellof bad mood because my computer crashed for the umpteenth time and was joking around with Kristy about what would improve my mood, and I was like "I'm going to go to google ASAP and look for pictures of anteaters," and then, then I DID. As you may not be aware, anteaters are totally for definitely my favorite animal. SOSOSO cute omg.

"I really wish I had some milk for this"