aggienaut: (Bailey)

In more warm and fuzzy news...
   We currently have five young chickens (well plus a cat named Pelekea Cachaça, & a goldfish named Leviathan that lives in a flowerpot). Mother, who is a science teacher at a local jewish school, raised them from eggs in class. Now that they are older, however, they spend most of their time here and only make periodic fieldtrips to class.
   The chickies (four light yellow, one brown, no names yet) have more personality than I expected. The other day the escaped from corner of the yard mother had attempted to restrict them to. I didn't know whether or not mother had intended for them to be out and about but they seemed fine so I let them wander the yard. They spent the whole day roaming my yard in a little herd.
   At one point the cat was sitting in the very middle of them, I think because it made her feel sociable the same way being in the room the people are is appealing. Then the brown one charged at her and she ran away! Later the cat saw some grass rustling and started stalking.. then she ran and pounced and -- mid pounce realized it was not some lizard but an adolescent chicken, and aborted mid-air!
   Also often when I'd come out to check on them I'd stop about ten feet away, and one (I don't know if its the same one) will walk up to me, stop at my feet and look up at me, and then rejoin the others.


   Its not all fun and games though. Originally there were four. Unfortunately, when they were wee, a hawk landed on their cage and mauled one through the cage, killing it. Later, despite upgraded cage protection, the possum managed cart off one entirely and injure the remaining two. If there are two possums, which has been debated from the start, I think the other one should be consequently named Grendel. Also, Kristy is quite cross with the possum because of this. So as not to traumatize the children, mother got four new chicks of about the same age. One later died of a unknown causes (possibly dehydration/heat exhaustion, though water and shade were both available and the others were fine?) leaving the current five.


   As you may recall I'd previously announced we'd come into possession of some wee baby bunnies. Quick research revealed that at such a young age these bunnies would need very extensive care and were "unlikely to survive without professional assistance," and so after looking after them for maybe an hour and a half I found an animal shelter to take care of them.


Best Weekend Ever!
   This weekend is going to be the excellent.
   Firstly, tomorrow, Friday, is the official Krispalooza 2007. My birthday is actually on Monday, whereupon I turn 25. )= But as long as I'm still officially an early-twenty-something, we're all going out on Friday! Plan is BJ's (microbrewery) in Laguna Beach Hills at 8:30, then Hennessey's (pub), also in LB. Already it looks like a bunch of people can make it so its going to be a rollicking good time! You should come.
   Saturday Kristy & I are going to the Phi Alpha Delta of UC San Diego formal. For $30/person we get a five course meal, open bar for an hour, of course a dj, AND, its at Sea World! We're excited.
   Sunday as part of my birthday present, Kristy bought us tickets on a nature cruise to the Coronado Islands. We're excited!!
   And then on Monday I turn 25, aka life is over. )=

aggienaut: (gavel)

   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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