The Agrinautica

   Last night in Davis before heading back for Spring break... and STILL I have too much to do to get any sleep tonight. I think I've averaged 1.4 nights a week of actual sleep for most of this quarter; ie not taking a nap and waking up at 1am to start homework.
   Today I was panicked about not having a ride home, but then that miraculously resolved itself:

[20:33:52] Snail of DEATH: YOU Arjun, are going to magically use your powers to teleport me to Orange County within the next 24 hours.
[20:33:53] *** Auto-response from Cman006: im in the house..call the cell fool
[20:35:57] Cman006: actually
[20:35:57] *** Auto-response sent to Cman006: deep jedi procrastination

someone want to give me a ride down south?? )=
[20:36:04] Cman006: eric lives in orange county
[20:36:08] Cman006: and is going to be driving down tomorrow
[20:36:09] Cman006: so yes
[20:36:12] Cman006: my magic powers work again

   So... I called Eric and was like "I hear you're going down to Orange County," "yes," "you leave tomarrow?" "yes," "got room for a passanger?" "yes," "can I like.. tag along then?" "yes." So... that was craziness.

   Now hopefully my plans to get me to Ska Summit in Vegas at the end of the week work out and its all good. But even if Nick stays on the same page we were on last time we talked, we're still in need of somewhere to stay while there... anyone reading this who's gonna like.. be there? Hmm I should post on OC Ska dot com. ehh.. psha on that.

   Otherwise.. God bless the Trogdor Arcade Game, my source of procrastination of choice. Level 18 is a freakin biotch though!!

   Aand I should be like everyone else and comment on the war or something. We're all about "coalition forces" this time aren't we. Wasn't the word of choice "allies" just as recently as the Afghan adventure? Now its coalition this, coalition that.
   And the coalition apparently actually consists of 43 different states. Including like.. Slovakia*. Saddam better look out because once he figures out where on the map Slovakia is or what the hell their flag looks like they're gonna kick his ass!
   And 73-76% of America supports the war apparently. Who woulda guessed.

   *Actually I've been to Slovakia, stayed in the presidential cabin and in a secure government compound in the capitol, had my photo taken on top of a tank there... the usual things. For serious. Some of the photos are in the "feelin artsy" category of my picture pile at photos.yahoo.com/winged_snail. Blah I don't like the title of that category but I can't come up with a better one. I change it periodically. Its just pictures which are there for the sake of I think they look good.. or something. Oh and Slovakia actually has a very nice flag.


   ALSO today I found out I didn't get the internship I'd been hellbent on getting for this summer. I'm heartbroken. Or I would be if I was still sane enough to feel emotion. God dammit I don't want to work at Wild Rivers for year number SIX. I MUST get a job/internship in Eastern Europe (like say... Slovakia...) or I am going to shrivel up and die. I haven't been out of this country in FOUR YEARS. So yea.. I dunno.

   After having BBQ Pork something at Fuzios, which looked suspiciously similar to the Pod Thai that Antoinette got, and wasn't as good as my usual Firecracker Pork Fusilli (AKA the best dish EVER, ANYWHERE), we went to the show at Delta Venus. Squish the Bad Man, Estereo, and Radio Cure were playing there. Not my usual kind of music, but it was cool. I really liked the last group. My friend Annie was in Estereo, and Arjun and Eric from The List were there.
   We ended up not going to the movie we had been planning on seeing and just stayed at Delta Vee until the end of the show.

   After all that was over and Antoinette had dispersed I got myself over to Tamera's party. Now Tamera has a well established precedent of having good parties; the kind of parties where there's a finite number of friends who pretty much all know eachother and we just ahve us a good ole time. But this one.. I don't know, something had gone terribly wrong. Everyone knew it had, even and especially Tamera I think. Through some connection of one of her housemates every wanna-be gangster from Davis High was at that party. It was.. ghetto. I think we were all relieved when the cops broke up the party.
   Of course several of the most infamous people in Davis were there, like Mike Dugas, who in accordance with party tradition found himself shirtless, and the Freshman, who has somehow managed to endear himself to many people but I think if it were up to me I'd still put him in the Soviet Lubyanka for several months and forcefully instill some social skills. And then there was The British Guy. Silly British guy. And of course everyone's favorite individual of Greek derivation, Sarah was there.

   Today I am going to try to actually get an issue of the Chosen Echidna out. I thiink I'm on issue 11 now.. or maybe 12.. its been like freakin three months. If yahoogruops has closed down the newsletter for inactivity I swear I'm going on a killing spree. Anyway, first I need to add all people that have acrued in the last three months to the newsletter list, and then I need to edit it all together.. and.. yea.
   But first I think I'm going to draw a snail on my wall.

   And in accordance with tradition I apparently have to make a reference to Vanessa at least once per entry so uhh.. she didn't go out Saturday night as far as I know. Thats not very cool now is it Vanessa. (=

   Oh and at the party Lindsy, having consumed indeterminate amounts of alcohol, and with an amiable smile, said to me "Kris you know I think your an asshole and want to go off at you," to which I replied "yes, Lindsy, I do," similarly smiling and friendly. And I think it was the most sincere thing I've ever heard anyone say.. when people are saying GOOD things, even if they think they mean it, so often they are exagerating, underagerating, or similarly misrepresenting their feelings.. so yea.. it was beautiful. I think any claims she may have against me are largely related to the AMIJ Incident.