The Agrinautica

Wednesday: Last Final
   Last Wednesday (03/25/04) I had my last final, ENL113A, at 0800. It was mad easy. Then I said goodbye to Kristy, and proceeded to sleep away the rest of the afternoon.


Thursday: The Journey Home
   Thursday morning my uncle Ben gave me a ride across town to the Davis Amtrak station for my 0725 Amtrak bus to Stockton (hour & 25 minutes). Waited there for half an hour and then it was time for the four hour, 26 minute, trainride to Bakersfield. Then the funnest part [/sarcasm] two hours and twenty minutes on a bus sitting next to a crazy guy down to Los Angeles' Union Station. Fifty-five minute wait thee and then hour and three minute train ride to Irvine station. Total time: 10 hours, 47 minutes.
   No I didn't time everything, those are the official times I was given.

   That evening I just loafed about at home and took it easy.


Friday: Return to Diedrichs
   Friday afternoon I went on some adventures with Shalane (impotent_dream). She's been drug-free for 66 days now and its so nice to have sober Shillelagh back and I'm so happy for her.
   She's in Mexico now for the weekend.
   I really like her latest drawing Fig. S20 (apparently thats even a bad scan). Compare to pre-drugs Fig. S19.

   Then my good friend Alex called and her and her friend Oi Kelly came to visit me. Our initial plan was to stop by infamous Diedrichs off La Paz to get coffee and then come up with a new plan and have adventures elsewhere. Arriving at Diedrichs at around 9pm, we ended up staying there until about 1am.
   At first there didn't seem to be very many locals there that I knew.. just this guy Ryan who works there and Tristan.. then Croat (inequity) showed up, and Cool Kyle, and MtHH (who was suprisingly agreeable).
   Then, most suprising of all, my cousin Holly (bobolly), and her boyfriend / our longtime family friend Eric Shamay (shamster) showed up; apparently because they were in the area and suspected correctly that they could find me there.


   Tried this "Cisco" alcohol Croat's been raving about. Tasted like utter crap but it did give me a rather pleasent buzz with no inkling of sickness its true (going down it felt like it was gonna make me sick though). How can you be hard core drinking something strawberry flavoured though?


In Other News
   Little brother Lance Corporal Fricke was just notified that he will be sent to Iraq as early as this Wedneday.

   Mother just got a new job working in the office of the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Communications at UCI.

   Eric (Lance Corporal Fricke) had actually just started working at mother's previous place of employment, The Yarn Lady when he got notified of his immenent departure. He promptly was like "eff that!" and after a career of one day retired from the Yarn Lady.

   I used my last package of Knox Gelatine trying (rather unsuccessfully) to spike my hair on Friday. I'm now on a mission to discover a more effective way of doing it, since spiking with the gelatine is just about impossible to do alone.
   I washed out my miserable attempt at spiking with gelatine after it had been in less than three hours and tried again with this weird gel Shalane's friend gave me and it worked pretty well. I want to experiment with murrey's wax and aquanette hairspray next.. and if I get desperate maybe look into this egg white thing.


Related
   A Year Ago Today: Taco Loco, Solomite Show, Diedrichs, & Denny's
   Holly's reference to these events
   Eric's reference to these events

Tear Gas & Thai Food
   Friday evening Kristy and I decide to go investigate the restaurant Thai Recipes. Last time they (she and all the usual people.. yea.. I was busy though d= ) went to Thai Recipes they apparently had a malevolent troll of a waitress, but they were a big group so the waitress may have been misbehaving just cause she knew she was gonna get her tip anyway.. on any account we were feeling adventurous and decided to give it another investigation.
   Firstly however, since parking is crazy difficult in Davis, we parked behind Fuzios and those places.. and walking past the front of Fuzios ran right into my Uncle Ben and Auntie Bev. That was crazy sauce.
   Anyway, for my $8+ I got a highly unsatisfactory amount of food. It was good but hellllla small.. like Fuzios portions are ginormous in comparision (Fuzios = weaksauce portions itself). Comparing it to Sophia's Thai restaurant, the food was much better (Sophia's quality I would definitely rate as weaksauce), but the free refills on Thai Iced Tea at Sophia's and the fact that I only needed to eat three people's meals to feel content puts Sophia's definitely in the lead. I think there might be at least one more Thai restaurant in town though so next time I'm goin out to eat I guess I'll investigate that one (Thai Nakorn?).

   Back at Kristy's apartment complex... well Kwisty lives in "Stirling University Something", commonly known as "Stirling," or "Starlington." "Arlington" you see is the infamous party crazed apartment complex (affectionately known as "the second year dorms," because while only first years live in dorms here I guess Arlington had a notoriously high level of second years), but I believe Arlington has calmed down a bit lately.. anyway I've never seen it at all like Starlington was Friday night.. which brings us back to Starlington:
   ...so I leave Kwisty's apt at like 1am to get a CD out of her car... first of all the hallway is totally filled with smoke or fog or some kind of thick white obscurant which has reduced visibility to about ten feet, and when inhaled causes severe caughing. I suspect either (A) someone exploded a fire extinguisher or (B) the police broke up a party using teargas.
   Anyway music with extremely heavy bass premeated the entire building, and the sounds of raging partying similarly seemed to come from no specific direction but oozed from the walls in every direction.. exiting the tear-gas filled hallway one was met with a sight that confirmed that indeed people were partying all over the place. Like.. whoa.


The Sacred Order of Kadafi
   Saturday all day we had our Model United Nations mock-conference (isn't that redundant?). Just the people from our school, which amazingly numbered about 40+. I was a bit sceptical at first but it turned out okay I think. I guest-spoke in World Health Organization on the topic of AIDS/HIV as Libya, informing everyone, as is official Libyan policy, that HIV is an evil American conspiracy designed to make the rest of the world dependant on US pharmaceuticals (also since the US insisted that AIDS prevention education was key, I declared that they were also using it as a way to "impose their craven and depraved American morality on the rest of the world." After this speech committee broke down for a short time while people asked questions such as "does he ALWAYS speak like that??" such sauce.
   Back in my own beloved committee, DISC (we only ran two committees), I also spoke as Libya, urging everyone that arms control is complete bollocks, but not in those words. Cuba in DISC actually was arguing for the same saucey policy, against everyone else, and I saw to it that he got the "Spirit of Libya" award (which of course I made up for the occasion).

   That evening Kristy and I went over to Sloshie's, where of course drinking abounded.


ASUCD Intrigue, As Usual
   Today during Entertainment Council meeting I mentioned that ASUCD Senator Lydiana Alfaro had firmly blamed and condemned Ent.Con. for the Taking Back Sunday Incident, saying during last weeks Senate meeting that EntCon had been explicitly told by the LGBT not to proceed with the show.. the exact opposite of what I had heard. The EntCon staff unanymously declared that Senator Alfaro gets no more favors, and is now persona non grata to the EntCon. Ah campus drama.. ah the many interesting revelations of my ten minutes of attendance at last weeks Senate meeting.