The Agrinautica

   You know I've been ridiculously busy when I haven't been keeping up with livejournal entries. This week I had a midterm in Israeli History for which I had a lot of reading to catch up on, and then we had one day to write the take-home essay portion (comparing and contrasting Labour Zionism, Religious Zionism, & Revisionist Zionism).


Last Weekend
   We had our second annual Mock Model UN conference, where we pretend to be at a conference pretending to be at a UN conference. Incidently a year ago last wednesday we had the first such mock conferences for our incoming MUNers.
   We didn't actually get on to our second chance but it looked like we might, so I set up for the emergency topic I've been waiting to do for awhile: the militant secession of Quebec from Canada to form an independant communist state. Towards the end of the day I'd periodically make announcements such as "Its been discovered that weapons of mass destruction were smuggled out of Iraq prior to the fall of the Baathist regime... they're now in Canada!" and announced the actual secession in the last five minutes. Incidently Canda was represented by the infamous Paul Amnaypayout.

   Kritsy and I went on a trek down to SF to see the Plain White T's at The Pound. Turns out The Pound is located between shipping container storage areas on some docks in the middle of nowhere. PWTs were preceded by Army of Freshman, a band that struck me as very boy-band-esque. We got there as AoF was ending, saw PWTs and promptly left for the long trek back to Davis.


This Weekend
   We had our second annual "Crash Course in Chairing" (CCC) in preperation for Contra Conta County MUN Conference (CCC MUNC) 2003. Once again for this CCC(C) I was teaching the uninitiated How To Score. Being as I am the expert in this area. And by score, I mean evaluating people's performance and attributing a numerical grade to it.
   We followed the tradition I started last year for this and had people represent historical countries which no longer exist. I represented the Khanate of the Golden Horde, also present was The Ottoman Empire, The Confederate States of America, The Roman Empire, Oluwaseun-Okusanyastan, and a country called Bican (which I referred to as Bacon), among others.


Previously On EMOSNAIL - the erstwhile events of yesteryear
   23 October, 2003: Return of Officer Chang - I randomly decided to stop by an ASUCD Senate meeting, when who should manifest himself to the displeasure of my conscience, but the odious Officer Chang. The very officer who dismissed it as just a fight when I was set upon by three wanna-be gangstas and left unconscious, refusing to follow the leads we did have. And why was he before the ASUCD Senate this time? Well because he had been fired, because, well, he's probably a terrible officer if my experience is any indication. Why does this involve ASUCD? It doesn't, but he thought he could get their sympathy by claiming he was discriminated against in his termination. And I believe he did and following a general publicity campaign on campus was reinstated.
   24 October, 2003: Tough on Crime - The Further Antics of the Davis Police - Under-cover officer in pink shirt nabs skinhead?
   Year Ago Wednesday: Tear Gas & Thai Food - More unusually unruly incidents at Kristy's former complex, Stirling Apartments. It would later be the site of a major riot that took several dozen officers in riot gear to put down and is probably responsible for the tough-on-partying doctrine the police currently employ.
      Also the fallout from the Taking Back Sunday Incident develops further. This section was later cited by ASUCD President Sara Henry in her second attempt to remove me and I believe Lydiana denied making the statements I attributed to her. Incidently I know she did because I wrote it down the moment she said it and it probably appears in the minutes. One thing I can't stand is people who lie and she lost more respect from me in her denial than she did for making the statements or for voting for my removal.
   Year Ago Last Thursday: Judicial Foreshadowing - I speculate about the fat guys in cowboy hats who seem to be in the back of every large poli sci class and feel the need to share with the professor their every thought as if the rest of the class needs to know as well. And I mention the malevolent loop-hole which is just about to make a mess.
   Year Ago Last Friday: ASUCD Misprocessing - Previously mentioned malevolent loophole accidently activitated. Apparently my email got lost in former Senate President Pro Tempore Raj Gupta's inbox, causing the problems. Working with him later on I was left ultimately with a thoroughly good opinion of him.
      Also I ran this livejournal through this flesch-kincaid reading grade level calculator. Doing it again just now I find that this livejournal is now rated at grade level 10 rather than eight; words per sentence are up to 20.78 from 16.44 and syllables per word are up to 1.52 from 1.49.
   Year Ago Yesterday: State of the Court, Fall 2003 - with three appendices!
   Last Halloween: Party at the Unlistoya House - featuring citizene's amazing blue brew.
   Today: looks like Kristy and I are going to the party at "the Pirate House"


The ASUCD Political Parties
   obisan69 reproduced in her lj the top five interests shared by respective members of the two ASUCD political parties as listed on thefacebook.org. In the interest of giving our readers a better feeling for the differences between the two political parties, and seeing as it is an objective reproduction of listed interests, we shall reproduce the results here, but first, obisan69's disclaimer:
Disclaimer: This is an objective reproduction of interests listed elsewhere, as computed from groups participated in by the members of each respective slate. There should be no valuative judgements construed in this reproduction... Even if there were, I'm not an ASUCD official anymore so you can't closed session me :P

• Lead: ASUCD, Democrats, Bush is an Idiot, Vote for Kerry, Davis College Democrats.


• Student Focus: A-Town Pimps & Hos, THE PERV Fanclub, So Cal Connection, Norcal, Party'ers.

The Bees The Bees!!
   So I'm sitting in my room and I notice there's four bees buzzing around. I decide to see whats up with that and lurk around the house... sure enough there's at least as many in each of the upstairs rooms. Go down to the livingroom the whole freakin room is fuckin buzzing. It was like that hitchcock movie, The Birds, but with bees.
   Finally I determine that the door from the livingroom to outside is wide open, and there are several empty beehives just inside the livingroom, because well, you just gotta understand that thats how my house is. Even though the hives are as clean as they get, they'll always totally smell like honey and the bees are attracted to that.


This Evening - The Plain White T Show
   So first of course I went to Diedrichs for coffee. Katie D'agistino was there, and the guy who'd been wearing the Flogging Molly shirt yesterday was wearing a homemade shirt that said "STEEL RESERVE" on the front in sharpie. That guy is like, seriously my hero. If you know me you'll know why but I feel like explaining: (A) Flogging Molly is my favorite band (B) I make my own shirts, in fact I wore my "preppy" shirt this evening (C) I am ALL about the steel reserve. For awesome. Also after drawing an emo snail and thereupon mentioning it was my lj name, this random girl I totally didn't know was like "wait, your livejournal is emosnail?? I've read it before!" Freakin weird. But we have some mutual friends I guess so it sorta makes sense, but I am still baffled how Sarah had read my livejournal before I met HER.... weirdness.

   AAnyway, eventually I got myself down to the show. It was for awesome. Plain White T's are the for awesome. They definitely should have been the second-to-last, not Rudiger. It was the first time I've seen Rudiger, and I know I have some friends that are all about them, but frankly I was Not Impressed by them at all. ::shurg::
   Randomly ran into Carly Goode there.. didn't expect that. And Ashlee and Dana were there which was way cool, and Fish was there which was cool and we totally hung out. And then... and you Davis kids pay attention now: ARYA and Vanessa from entertainment council (ie not Kritlow) showed up. That was wack. They were there to see Rudiger I think. See my above comments on Rudiger.
   But yea I swear half the people at the show left after Plain White T's finished.. why? well because PWT is for awesome.

   When the show was over I hung out there until 12:30, then Fish went with the Bullets N Octane kids to their afterparty and I decided to head down to capitrano beach where some of the diedrichs kids were having a beach bonfire.
   That was like a half hour drive.. and five minutes before I got there Katie called me to say that hey they were leaving... soo yea. Hmmm kinda reminds me of yesterday. Those Diedrichs kids are sneaky.


Justice
   I do not lie, I do not cheat, I do not cross double yellow lines on the freeway (carpool lane) even if no one is looking, and I do what I say I'll do. I am quite clear that I will not tolerate people either warning or blocking me on aim, and thankfully precious few people know that I definitely mean that.
   A friend of mine last year warned me on aim "as a joke," I didn't talk to him on aim for a full month thereafter.
   Presumably the deterrence for blocking should be worse, but today one of my best friends blocked me. I know she didn't think it was as serious as I did, but thats exactly why my stance on the subject must be inequivically clear.
   At 16:27 today with "u asked for it" and "actually u prob wont mind" she blocked me.
   When she came on at 16:42 I tried to tell her that I was not going to talk to her for the next 12 hours, but she signed off as soon as she found out I was displeased with her blocking. A short while later she called me, I probably shouldn have answered, but I do not hang out on people, so we had a rather untalkative conversation thereupon.
   At 4:42am this morning the sentence is considered complete. But see the thing is, its not that I was that pissed about it; its just that when I say I am going to do something I am obligated to do it... weightless words and creative ethics have become the expected norm today, but I shall retain my honor for ever.


Kris' Love Life Explained
   Apparently some people have taken my long silence in my livejournal on the subject to mean that I am being a devious bastard and not talking about it. No it is quite the opposite; I have no social life and am over it. I am not looking for to have one either, I have attained a jaded and cynical equilibrium.
   Yes most of my friends are girls, but contrary to what a certain "friend" of mine is apparently telling everyone, no I am not dating any of these people, and no I am not a pathological liar (see above section for further insight on that subject). And no, no one appears to like me right now either. I don't need the speculation. Just let me be asexual ... dating is for sucks.