CalMUN Anaheim

   This weekend I chaired the International Law Commission (ILC) at the CalMUN Anaheim model united nations conference. This involved spending about 16 hours driving altogether and $156.97 being spent on diesel gas.
   Arriving at the hotel I found that my friend Sally not only was also on staff, she was the director of my committee. It was fun working together and she decided she wanted to chair with me on ILC at the AmWest conference in Vegas. The director is theoretically the higher ranking chair person, so I was under her at this conference but she'll be under me at AmWest.
   Considering all the potential staffers and positions, its really a pretty crazy coincidence that we ended up chairing together this weekend. When I met Sally we were both delegates at this same conference in 2002. We talked and it turned out she was planning on going to the same show/party that evening (Bullets N Octane CD release party). Also she went to the JC where all my friends from HS went (Saddleback College). Then, the next quarter, I met this girl Mara at the UC Berkeley conference, whose best friend happened to be Sally. And I think there was another coincidence in there too, the point is there are a lot of them.
   Friday night was just staff preparation stuff, the conference began on Saterday morning. Friday evening in the hotel lobby some random girl and guy said they liked my mohawk. Then the next day we ran into eachother at the conference, which was funny because we both assumed the other(s) weren't in MUN for some reason. Then after the conference ended that evening I was changing up in the presidential suite and I walk out into the main room of the suite to find these same people (the girl, Janae, guy Nathanial, and their friend Jeff) standing in the room (wtf?). Apparently, PAXMUN (organization that puts on CalMUN & AmWest, among many other conferences) CEO Stephen Lunich randomly found them and invited them up to partake of the wine and cheese we had left over from the advisor meeting. Then I went with the other staff members for dinner, leaving the other people with Lunich. I thought that was the last I'd see them.
   About five hours later (circa 1am) I was in the process of evacuating things out of the presidential suite* with other staff when we see Janee and Jeff coming down the hall. Apparently they'd gone to dinner with Lunich and he'd bought two bottles of wine and in the aftermath they'd lost Nathaniel. Shortly they continued their search for Nathaniel.
   About half an hour later Nathaniel came down the hallway. I figured for sure it was the last I'd see any of them. Nathanial prophesized we'd see eachother again somehow.
   Sunday morning I want out to breakfast with my parents since I was in the area. They transferred to me my computer mouse and camera recharger (the lack thereof explains why there are no pictures documenting these adventures), among other things. I gave them two bottles of the awesome wine Coleman made. Then as I was driving out of the hotel parking lot who do I run into again but Janee, Nathaniel, and Jeff. Keep in mind I hadn't seen any other delegates since the conference ended (they all fled immediately). Crazy sauce.

   Anyway, I'm glad I had a chance to run through ILC before AmWest and see how I'm going to have to steer them at AmWest to keep them on track. ILC basically writes international law (well proposals for the same, its not Law just because they write it) in areas currently lacking in international law, such as unlawful combatants. At this conference people really seemed to be off track, proposing to create committees to handle things and other such silliness which is not what ILC does.


Picture of the Day

Here are the two Swedes that visited, Tony (L) & Tobias (R).
They are on the Memorial Union patio on campus


Unrelated: I really want to utilize entry tagging on livejournal, but its only available on the S2 style scheme. I think my current style is ideal however (winner of a golden snailie in fact!). They say S2 is more customizable, so theoretically it could be made to look just like this S1 format? Someone who is full of computering wisdom should write me up the coding to make S2 look just like this. I will award them with... the medal of the Sacred and Frasky Order of the Golden Snail (with majesty!).


Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago on Last Monday: Scheduling Woes - The usual struggle to get a class schedule that makes sense. Also my computer is broken as usual. Also some funny quotes.
   Two Years Ago Last Thursday: Sashiepalooza 2003 - another awesome party hosted by Sashie. My friend Kristy is out of town. )=
   Two Years Ago Friday: OMGWTF Tiger Army! - I find out Tiger Army, Necromantix, and Rancid are coming to town soon. This being only the first of a number of amazing shows that year (Shins, Pixies, etc), Entertainment Council is clearly an excellent institution that should be supported...
   Two Years Ago Saturday: Case # 21 - Vicki Swett's teaches her pet, Paloma Perez, some tricks. Aww how cute.