aggienaut | Accession of Coady (Reply)

   Congratulations to Tim Coady, the new Chief Justice of ASUCD! He should be being confirmed approximately right now at Senate. I will remain an associate Justice for exactly a week until I hit four years on the bench on the 25th.

   The Case 37 hearing has been postponed a week to the 31st. It has been officially announced that Case 39 was rejected. A Case 40 has been filed today.

   An Aggie reporter was apparently calling around trying to talk to someone on the Court. She called three other justices (who all asked me what they should say), but never called me. Silly reporters. I'm still alive, and more available for comment than ever before! So find my number.
   And The Aggie does a whole retrospective about ASUCD President Holloway's retirement and term in ASUCD, but the end of my much much longer involvement doesn't get a mention, I see how it is. I guess you don't be Chief Justice for the adoring fans.

   Last week I was in Davis. It was cold.

   Then I took the train all night right on down to San Diego. Kristy & I went to Sea World (An Anhauser-Busch Amusement Park!) on the tickets I got her for Christmas. We got year passes to the park (which cost as much as one day tickets, I was so confused trying to find out what the catch was) and backstage tours. The backstage areas we got to see consisted of two locations: the first one was kind of decent it was the back pools where they put animals that aren't currently on exhibit for one reason or another; the second was a lameo fake backstage area with some baby sharks -- baby sharks are cool but we'd seen simiilar things on normal exhibition at Monteray or Long Beach or both.
   Anyway, Sea World was extremely commercialized compared to the zoos and other aquariums we'd been to. They tried to make the arctic animal exhibit into a ride practically. Nevertheless, we got a better view of the polar bears than we've gotten at the SD zoo, and they had other fun animals the other places didn't have.
   The shamu show was really retarded. They tried to make it into some story about some kid who "wanted to connect" with the animals or some crap and... I dunno it was really lame. They kept showing this dumb kid on the huge telescreen rather than the actual whales.
   One of the most interesting things however was when we were just observing the orcas, the young one was toying with the birds. She'd spit a bit of fish out so it floated just a foot above her on the surface while she stayed below it. When a bird would try to get it she'd try to nip the bird. The second day we went the orca had feathers sticking out of her mouth.

   In other news, the legendary Diedrichs off La Paz will be closing down forever on Monday. When it reopens, it will be a starbucks. )=

   I've been back in Mission Viejo during the week, but I'm about to go back down to San Diego to take care of Kristy after she has a dental procedure tomorrow morning.

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