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Juggling Classes
   So originally this quarter I was enrolled in SWE2, CMN152 (Communications - Theories of Persuasion), IRE190 (Seminar in International Relations), POL132 (Nat'l Security Policy) and HIS132 (His. of Crime & Punishment).
   This is twenty units, but Swedish is at UCLA and will probably not get counted in with everything until much later in the quarter - thus if I were to take 16 units, it would show up here as 12 (lacking Swedish), and one must take something like 12.5 units to remain a full time student for financial aid purposes.    Twenty units is an unpleasant thing to take unnecessarily though. I found a crafty solution however, in the "withdraw no work submitted" option here. If you never submit anything for a class but don't disenroll, it comes out as a harmless drop at the end of the quarter and doesn't stay on your official transcript. Thus I'm registered here in 16 units, but four of those units will in the end come from a class other than the one listed.

   This crafty plan has been further complicated however. The registrar's office just informed me that I've already taken POL132, and rather than just disenroll me from it, I apparently will still get a grade in it but it won't count for my units. So if I get a bad grade it will appear to haunt me in my transcript, but if I get a good grade it'll probably go unnonticed because it won't get worked into my GPA. EVIL!
   Not only that, but I'm now officially enrolled in 12 units, and four of those are the ones I didn't intend to finish. This means that I suddenly desperately need to (A) convince the registrar to accept that I'm taking 4 units at UCLA) and (B) get up to speed in HIS132, which I have not been attending for four weeks now. Or something!

   If you have any other thoughts or advise on this situation I'd be extremely pleased to hear them.

Weekend Adventures
   Saturday Kristy and I and our friend Carissa went to a show off L Street to see Unless, Keep Your Distance and Prison Shank. There was hardly anyone there, I blame Coachella. The following picture is from the show though:

Picture of the Day

Previously on Emosnail
Two Years Ago Today: The Boorish Depraved Minds of My Classmates - More good times in ENL5F. And Kristy wears her hair in cinnamon buns.

Current Music: Nine Inch (S)Nails - The Hand that Feeds

Today's Revelations
   "It IS legal to call any sparkling wine 'champagne' in the United States, but its not considered very cool." -my VEN3 professor.
   I came to the definitive conclusion that my ECN162 professor is the worst teacher I've had here. He makes frequent mistakes in his diagrams and worse in the answer key he provided for a practice quiz for last weeks test; I now take everything he says with a grain of salt and vow to double check in the book whenever it sounds like he's gettins suspect again; students openly dispute points with him in class. I feel sorry for him, he appears to have the best intentions, but.. he's terrible.
   Most important discovery of all today, walking from that class to HIS138C with Danny Adams (genuinesarcasm) I was introduced to the concept of pizza bagel, which yes, I was hitherto unacquanted with. Best use of 90 cents ever.

Current Mood: uffish
Current Music: Pixies - Gouge Away

Where to Start
So much to write about here, where to start? In addition to my usual adventures of Wednesday and Thursday, there was an article about me in the Aggie on Thursday (and a picture in which I looked like a turnip), and the adventures of the Senate meeting Thursday evening.

Overriding Urgency
( The Senate Meeting )

Picture in the Paper
( Front Page Article )

Wednesday
( Medieval Warfare )

Thursday
( Five Months )

Picture of the Day

Preeminent
Park at marguerite & olympiad (Mission Viejo)
© Kris Fricke 2001

Quotes
   "Wearing a suit and having a mohawk - its not just stylish - its the shit!!" -guy at a table in front of the MU after I signed his petition Wednesday. Incidentally looks like todays gonna be another suit day - I have to deliver notification of hearings to people.

Word of the Day
   psephology (see-FOL-uh-jee) noun - The study of elections and voting, and their statistical analysis in the prediction of results.

   Source - wordsmith.org

Related
   Aggie Article: Court Chair Sits Election Case Out - Aimee Theron
   Aggie Article: Davis College Greens File Complaints Against ASUCD - Aimee Theron
   Year Ago Wednesday: Rush Spermcat
   Year Ago Today: The Olson Underground

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: New Amsterdams - Picture in the Paper

Yesterday
   Yesterday (Monday) was the third day of school for most students here at the U of C at Davis. For me it was my last day of break. I went and got that remainder check at Durden Hall that financial aid had finally admitted they had for me. A whopping $107.13. I'm rich now, let me tell ya.

   And I got my haircut in the barbershop in the MU basement. At first I thought the man hated me because I have a mohawk, but then he started talking about how he used to have some regular customers he'd give crazy spikes to, and ended up giving me a lot of advise on it.

Today
   Today was my first day of class this quarter. I only have classes Tuesdays and Thursdays, but its six hours straight. I think its gonna be alright though.
   From 10:30-11:50 I have VEN3 (Introduction to Viticulture (winemaking)). I think Kristy would describe the teacher as a bignerd but its not in a bad way... some highlights from today were learning about such grapevine diseases as "powdery mildew," and "botrytis bunchrot" (that last one sounds like a name from Harry Potter or something.. but then again I haven't read that)...
   Then from 12:10 to 13:30 I had ECN162 ("International Economics"). The professor struck me as terrible. I'm definitely going to be getting the textbook for THAT class. genuinesarcasm is in the class with me and my class thereafter...
   HIS138C (History of the Soviet Union). He did the thing where he asked us to write our name, major, and exposure to russia on a piece of paper. So I'm like "I know pavel!" (pavelthegeek), but then Pavel is like, "no, I won't expose myself to you!" Anyway, as luck would have it, Pavel, being the crazy Russian that is, was auditing that class and the next one...
   HIS138A ("Russian Empire up to 1881"). Got a feeling the tests are gonna be really hard.. the teacher seems to have this "bite me" kinda attitude. We also had a class discussion about what "flax" is because no one, including the teacher, was really sure.

Picture of the Day

Skyward
power pylon at marguerite & olympiad
© Kris Fricke 2001

Related
A Year Ago Today: Party at the Loyola House III
A Year Ago Monday: Fictional Documentries

Current Mood: concerned
Current Music: Hefner - The Hymn for Cigarettes

   So I had my pass time the other day. I am currently signed up for ECN162 (International Economic Relations), HIS138A (Russian History Until 1881), and HIS138C (Russian History Since 1917) (Yes, I am missing the 1881-1917 period). So far these classes only fall on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
   That of course was my "first pass" where I could sign up for up to 12 units. When my second pass comes along I think I'd like to pick up viticulture & enology 3 (Winemaking), to fulfill the remainder of my science and engineering GE requirement (Physics 137, Nuclear Weapons, which I ended up getting a B in, was my other science and engineering class).

   If I don't acquire some more bread soon I'm quite sure I'll die of starvation. )=

   Win a Twinkie! contest from last entry is still valid. You know you want that coveted twinkie.

The Party Lineup
   Right now it looks like Kristy and I will be going to the party at the Pirate House on Friday, the Anti-V-Day Party at the List House on Saturday, and Kim Kumaniac's party on Sunday (since Monday is a day off!).

Picture of the Day

Caleb Hervey, Kris Fricke, Go Funai
another icon of this livejournal
© The California Aggie 2002

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Tiger Army - Under Saturn's Shadow

   And um a girlfriend too.

   April fools on that second part. I just had to make SOME kind of april fools joke, as I hadn't yet. But today the car was formally transferred into my possession. So... this is a historic day.

   In Other News: I was delusional this morning. No really. Well, my computer clock is slow. I unfortunately have had a tendency not to change it back to the correct time until it gets far enough off that it causes me to be late for something. That happened this morning, as the clock had become exactly half an hour behind. I therefore thought it was 9:00 when in fact it was 9:30. I proceeded to miss my bus. Catching the next bus I was about ten minutes late for class. To prevent this from happening in the future I eliminated the display of the clock on the computer, because as we all know a stopped clock is more often correct than a slow clock; and unable to stop the clock, (or make it run accurately) my only recourse was its removal. I shall no longer be deluded into a false sense of time, but will I no longer ever be delusional? YOU decide! (=

   I had HIS131C (Ancient Regime 1650-1800) and COM6 (Comparative Lit: Myths and Legends) for the first time today. COM6 looks really fun so I'm excited, but I need to get a bunch of books for it. Psha on books. But.. I'm excited. The History class.. I dunno the teacher seems kinda fascist. She seems psychologically rational unlike many other teachers, but fascist in her assignments (we need to have a question ready each day on an index card larger than 3x5, among other things).
   In the history class I knew five people of the 54 or so. Thats like.. ten percent of the class. Craziness. (Courtney Caruso, Sarah, The British Guy, Andrew Whelan (Campus Editor of the California Aggie) and... Russ Fagley I think was the other. I contrast of about 78 people in COM6 I spotted all of one person I knew (Kris Edelmyer).
   It occured to me today that I actually could drop one of my classes.. and I'm all about taking my time. I think I may drop HIS131C.

   My mother and I had lunch today with miss Garian Cika. I dated Garian for like three months last year, and my mother thinks that Garian is like.. the most wonderful girl EVER. I earn brownie points with mom just by mentioning Garian's name I swear. Last summer I'd want to visit San Diego.. parents totally not about to give me permission to take the car the two hours down to SD, until I mention that maybe I'll visit Cika. In response to the revelation that I now have a car, Garian is like "road trip!!" with anyone else, knowing mother's scepticism regarding the car's dependability, she'd have been like "haha.. NO" but noo she's all about it and later she (mother) is like "I'll buy you're food if you go on a road trip with her!" Silly mother.

   Hmm.. what else what else... there were the cookie wars on campus today. I think I'll write an Echidna article on the subject and maybe someday even publish it.
   Later this evening I saw notorious campus republican Mike Dugas, cal aggie conservative columnist Zack Amendt, campus green party bigwig Sonny Mohatmazedi, and another person of liberal tendencies I didn't know sitting at a table talking. I KNEW it was a vast pan-politco-spectum conspiracy!
   No actually they were having the most rational, philosophical discussion I have ever seen people have on such a controvercial issue. No one interrupted anyone, no one made any statements that weren't insightful and meaningful, rebuttals were similarly made, the entire exchance was amicable and respectful. I was very impressed.

this is cool

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Elbow - Independant Woman

   Monday was the first day of the quarter, and already my life is hellish busy. Good times. Got like two hours of sleep Sunday night between working on numerous things. Proceeded to fall asleep in my english class.

   I'm waitlisted for half my classes, but right now I am signed up for: RUS3 (Russian), ENL5F (Introduction to writing fiction), HIS131C (History 1650-1800, "Ancient Regime"), and COM6 (Myths and Legends). I'm waitlisted number two in ENL5F, and two people currently enrolled didn't show up on monday.. so hopefully that'll work out. The teacher is an uber-hippie. Her name is "Eve Imagine," needless to say thats neither her nor her husbands original last name. She repeatedly referred to herself as an "artist," which I thought was a bit.. pretentious. I mean who asserts that they ARE an artist, REPEATEDLY. So yea.. I found myself trying to do a psychological breakdown of her, in what she said about her life it became quite apparent that it was of overriding importance to her that everyone recognize her as an artist and the perfection of bohemian ideals.. so I was trying to figure out what specific inadequacy or type of incident could lead one to have such monomania.
   Which isn't to say I don't like her. I think it looks like the class should be interesting.

   I'm waitlisted number seven in HIS131C. So I don't know if thats gonna work out. I have that class for the first time today (and COM6 as well). So we'll see how those work out.

   And Russian class of course is like being in high school: its the same people every quarter, just a new room.

   Between my classes yesterday I showed my mom around campus a bit. I wanted her to try a COHO burrito but she wasn't hungry enough, maybe today she will. I then slept for about three hours in the afternoon, being dead tired; but had to get up at seven (pm) to go to the "MUNSEC" meeting (Em Eu En Secretariat meeting). We had to juggle the car, as mother is still using it primarily, and she's staying with the aunt and uncle. So she drove over to my place, we drove back to Ben & Bev's, dropped her off, I drove to the meeting... repeated in reverse order thereafter.

   Finally checked my grades from last quarter. Having had no books save one reader, not taken ANY notes in class, and not studied for any tests save the finals, I got straight Bs. Yes I'm awesome!

   The Dominion of Blehtahepdakorum is now classified as a "Corporate Police State." Go figure. My environmental standards are still "stunning" though so.. whatever.

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Ultima Thule - When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again

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