Pitstop OC

   I arrive at Court on Friday to find a table there is absolutely heaping with St Patricks Day themed desserts & snacks -- including TWO complete cakes, a set of cupcakes, as well as chips & dip et cetera. Someone remarks "If you want healthy food, its all in criminal division, they have celery & carrots and things." I wonder if the different faire is caused by subtle psychological nuances related to working in criminal versus civil division, or merely a groupthink effect forged by the personalities of people who happen to work in the respective divisions.

   On Saturday Kristy & I made an expedition to Roseville and retrieved my Mercedes.
   On Sunday I put the car through a trial run .. by driving it the 400+ miles from Davis down to Orange County.
   On Monday I hung out with my good friend Petty Officer 2nd Class Aaron Aviv, who's back on leave from the USCGC¹ WPC-13² Shamal. We (Him & I plus two of his friends) were nerdcore and went to this place that has like 200 networked computers and played Battlefield 2.
   Today is Tuesday, I don't know what I'm doing this evening yet, but hopefully I'm doing something.
   Tomorrow, Wednesday, I return to Davis.
   On Thursday, Kristy & I are seeing Franz Ferdinand in Sacramento.
   On Friday a large group of us, approximately consisting of the group of people who usually go on the annual New Years Tahoe trip (which didn't occur this year), will go on a roadtrip down to Vegas. We will return on Monday.

¹United States Coast Guard Cutter
²W? Patrol Coastal


   My internet is acting extremely wonky at the moment. Pages on livejournal & wikipedia are opening fine, but most other pages are not opening at all. Previous to these problems there had been no changes to the set up here since last night when everything was working fine -- except Myspace;
   Myspace is also not loading at all now, but yesterday my login would bring me to the "register new user" page. If I typed in an obviously bogus login, it would tell me I had the wrong username/password, and I further confirmed that it was recognizing my login by telling it I forgot my password and verifying that the information it sent back to me was what I was typing in -- so for some reason its recognizing my login as not a nonaccount or incorrect login, but sending me to the register new account screen.
   And of course AIM is down. This is all extremely alarming because AIM is the principal way I communicate with people and during my very short stay here its extremely important to me to try to make the most out of my visit and see as many of my friends as I can. Myspace is also important to this goal.. I was able to briefly get through and post a bulletin announcing I'm in town, but otherwise I'm cut off from myspace as well for some reason. )=
   Update 9:24pm - things seem to be working better now.


In Other News: So I have a radio in my room here, unlike in Davis, so I'm catching up with whats on the radio now ... and its SHIT. Man what crap, I'm not missing anything. I'm suprised by how often Green Day - When September Ends is still on, man I loathe that song. I can't believe such an obnoxious affliction to the ears was spawned by Green Day. --update 6:44 GOD ITS ON AGAIN!!!! IT MAKES ME WANT TO DIE


Picture of the Day

Bailey celebrates St Patricks Day
He had a moment of celebrity as the St Patricks Day image on the front page of Daviswiki for most of the day.
See also: stuffonmycat.com


Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years and a Week Ago Yesterday: Brown Act Ethics - Though the Brown Act does not presume to apply to every little non-governmental organization, the ethical sentiments expressed in it are transferable. The subject of this entry is the explusion of non-officers from executive meetings of Davis MUN. I don't know whether they still do, but I know other organizations also regularly exclude non officers from the officer meetings, and I think you should know that that is probably not ethically defensible.
         ALSO: "The idea that career employees may act with impunity to the Court is to accept that they do not work among us at the employ of the ASUCD government but rather supervise an incompetent student play-government. I need hardly point out that the latter precept which is necessary for the argument in favor of their impunity is insulting to anyone that participates in the ASUCD government." After some convincing testimony by Mark Champagne, we concluded that "it is clear that at the time of the original writing of the Judicial Codes, the possibility that this situation could arise was not anticipated. By accident of writing therefore, the Codes could have indicated either way. Despite extreme ambiguity, it appears that the Codes expected Defendants always to be undergraduate students of UC Davis" (Case # 24). HOWEVER, in a terribly constructed sentence, we clarify: "We find not that the ASUCD Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction over university employee union members, but specifically that the codes imply that they cannot act as Defendants in our court system. There is no reason to believe they are exempt from Court Orders that do not impose direct disciplinary action upon them."
   Two Years and a Week Ago Today: ASUCD Purchases Firetruck - Jenn de la Vega reports. Two years later the Aggie Pack Firetruck bears no ASUCD logos or other signs of gratitude for ASUCD's gift of the firetruck to Aggie Pack (a non ASUCD unit), nor has it paid ASUCD back any of the promised funds. ALSO, "Would you say this air conditioning is adequate.... or would you say its pretty fuckin weak?" -My Russian Lecturer, Avrom Brown.
   Two Years Ago Last Wednesday: SCANDAL SCANDAL - Reportedly, you do not --I repeat NOT-- need a "Number 2" pencil to fill out teacher evaluation forms as official sources would have you believe, but a faculty informant reveals "as long as it is dark enough, a pen would probably suffice"!! Also I deliver SGAO a minor smackdown regarding the nonposting of documents. Two years later Court documents are still not put online by SGAO -- but the Court's determined that the Senate is responsible for overtasking SGAO without giving them enough resources to accomplish everything (Case # 32).
   Two Years Ago Last Thursday: Disappearing Aggie Article - RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED: An Aggie article about two ASUCD Supreme Court cases filed against Creative Media mysteriously disappears from the website. Incidently, Creative Media at the time controlled the Aggie website. A reason for the disappearance was never revealed, but now the Aggie doesn't cover ASUCD Court cases at all.
   Two Years Ago Last Saturday: Corned Beef & Ice Cream Sandwiches - I get this extreme craving for corned beef and cabbage and only realize hours later that its St Patricks Day.. weird coincidence. This St Patricks Day, other than the food at work, I forgot about it until my little brother drunkenly called me and asked why I wasn't drinking -- it took me a few minutes to realize why I ought to be drinking at all. I seem to have a history of ambivalence about this day.
   Two Years Ago Today: Last Summer in Review - A weird time to finally get around to it. Also, I don't know how I'm going to get to OC for break.