Ghost Calls

[aggienaut]

   In other bee related news, you may or may not recall that at Bee Busters we had decided to return to the beekeeping business. After I had left for the law mines they did indeed get their hives set up and filled with bees ... in Santiago Canyon.
   A week later, the Santiago Canyon Fire burned 28,445 acres over the course of two and a half weeks (only becoming fully contained last Friday).
   Oops.

   No one's been up there to check it out yet (the area is still closed to nonresidents I think), but the house next to them has survived so we're optimistic the bees are still there.


   In other news, my phone does this thing where it starts ringing, says private number on the caller ID, and when I answer it I hear ringing on the end as if I called someone. Once I stayed on and my friend Courtney Caruso answered as if I had called her, and there was much confusion and awkwardness regarding who called who. To avoid this awkwardness I now immediately hang up when I answer and hear ringing.
   Anyway, it did this a few times last summer, and then didn't do it again until just the other day it started doing it again. Around the middle of the day it'll happen every five minutes for awhile, and then stop until around mid-day the next day.
   Founder of the Davis College Republicans, Chris Mays, left me a voicemail after one of them, sounding confused saying "um.. I just answered the phone and.. um, apparently I called you? So, um.. I guess I wanted to say hi?"
   Maybe my phone is trying to tell me somehting, like if I answered and spoke to Chris we would go on to solve unsolved crimes or something.


   Also, the University of Puerto Rico School of Law costs about a 6th of most other law schools and has a pretty good bar passage rate (66% compared with the overall average of 46% Puerto Rican bar passage rate) ... and, of course, don't forget, that Puerto Rico IS part of the United States.
   U of Puerto Rico, a brilliant idea, or a the opposite of brilliant idea?

Comments

[hereticxxii.livejournal.com]

Una Pergunta, tu nesicitas hablar espanol en el Universidad de Puerto Rico?

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Hahaha possibly, the Inter-American University located there definitely said Spanish was required so I crossed it off the list. I definitely do not speak spanish, this may well be a problem. =x

phone

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Sounds like someone is pranking you. There are various services that are used to initiate calls on the internet which would have the symptoms you describe.

Re: phone

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Hm. Thats odd though because it always appears to call someone from my address book, and it happened a bunch a year ago and now its happening again, usually several times around 1pm ever day. If its someone who's pranking, they're quite strange.

Re: phone

[spencerfern.livejournal.com]

I think you misinterpreted his messages, that was his confession. BTW, I just tried to do this to the two of you through grandcentral.com (awesome service btw.) Did it work?

Re: phone

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Haha that was Tobin you made me call?? O= That would have been quite awkward if he picked up, he'd a been like "uh, why are you calling me?" since generally speaking, I don't.

Does the perpetuator get to listen in to the ensuing awkwardness?

I actually find this concept rather hilarious. Its tempting to try to come up with the two people I know it would be most awkward to have call eachother.... (=

Re: phone

[spencerfern.livejournal.com]

The site I used is mainly legitimate, but there are some services out there that are really shady.

Some will let you set the caller id to whatever you want, which is scary because some voicemail systems grant access based just on caller id.

Hilariously creepy example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq8BcnbFkho

Re: phone

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Haha that guy seemed to be pretty chill about hearing the person he talked to 10 minutes ago was strangled, seriously.

On a similar theme, someone on my friends list posted this hilarious conversation today.

[pavel-lishin.livejournal.com]

I think it's a brilliant idea if you want to do something shady with your legal career.

Which, I most definitely would.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Haha what's shady about Puerto Rico?

[pavel-lishin.livejournal.com]

Nothing.

But plenty shady about going off the continent for a budget law degree!

I'd either be very pessimistic, fearing that my lawyer is a slackdick who couldn't cut it at a real university, or that he's some sort of shady-deal genius, who'll cut me a great deal no matter what it takes.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha "we can get you off for this murder ... because I can get you retroactive citizenship to Saudi Arabia and then you can't be tried by the US!"

[pavel-lishin.livejournal.com]

That's exactly the sort of brilliant tactics I'm talking about.

The second you get a shady law degree, you mail me some business cards.