The Agrinautica

   On Wednesday I open up our paper to find that a body has been found in a McDonalds parking lot in South Davis.

   On Thursday I open up the paper to find that a body has been found in a janitorial closet in Sproul Hall.

   This second body was found hanging from a rope, but police characterizedd it as "unintended" and did not suspect foul play. He was... rooting about for spare lightbulbs and had a very unfortunate accident? See also.


Freezing Season is at Hand
   In less morbid news, this morning I was extremely reluctant to get out of bed on account of it being freezing here. When I finally managed to do so around 9am, I enter the living room to find my flatmate Jason has opened every window!! W.T.F. They were closed when I went to bed. How could he have possibly gotten too hot before 9am?
   Additionally, it being a new month, rent is of course due. I asked him to write me a check last night, so I could pay the rent today since I usually don't see him during the day. There's definitely no check to be found this morning. )= (I was too tired last night to deal with compelling him to write one then and there)


Nationally Geographic
   Aaand the moment you've all been waiting for, my international television debut:
"Check your local listings for the premiere of "Attack of the Killer Bees!" on Wednesday, December 6th only on The National Geographic Channel.

Enjoy and look for something familiar to you!

All the best,
Jennifer Lucene
Associate Producer, EXPLORER
National Geographic Television"

Picture of the Day

Bees enjoy a view
From the archives

   I swear I nearly froze to death last night, with temperatures dipping near fifty again while I'm up trying to write a paper. Finally help came just in time... in time to turn the water off while I was in the shower.

   Thats right. I finally decide at least to take a warm shower, and I'm basking in the hot water when all of a sudden BAM no more water. I emerge to find the repairman fixing the pipe in the kitchen that had flooded the girls downstairs.


   Shortly thereafter the maintanance man returns with the professional heater guy. They tinker with the heater, clean a bunch of filters and depart. Two hours later the pilot's (which was just put in yesterday btw) out again. Tomorrow morning the heater man will try to replace another part and see if it works then.


   Maintanance man also brought a light-bulb because one of our lights is burnt out. Incidently later I was lookng for this light bulb and I couldn't find it anywhere. Finally we asked Jason and he was like "oh, the lightbulb that was on the table here? it was burnt out so I threw it away" "but the maintanance man just brought it" "well he brought a burnt out bulb" "did you... test the bulb?" "no, but it looked clearly burnt out" so I rummage through the trash until I find it. We plug it in and it works fine.


   Talked to the office about the motorcycle (With Chen) when I went in to pay rent. Office concurs that it shouldn't be a problem "but people are complaining." Office can't tell us WHO is complaining, but she mentioned three girls that sound like they fit the description of the girls below us, who didn't pay their share of the internet we shared with them for half the year last year. Also confirmed it was one of the cars one either side of me. I'm still inclined to think its the car to my car's right because they complained about the door thing, as mentioned, but roommates observe the car to the left is always parked terribly.


Previously in EMOSNAIL
   Year Ago Tomorrow: Lightbulb Hostages - and epic truths in Item D

   So I emerge from my little cave here into the living-room, dressed like a 13th century Russian warlord (big furry russian hat (ushanka), wrapped in blanket like a thick cape - because its freakin cold in here), to find that the pilot light in our heater has gone out for the millionth time. While roommate Jason is working on that I proceed into the kitchen to prepare a pot pie (50 cents each at safeway!). Then I notice that the kitchen is flooding. Jason abandones the closet of piping that is the heating apparatus to investigate this situation (he'd just repaired the dishwasher), when roommate Chen appears to announce that our internet access has gone down again.


   Incidently he reported that one of the usernames of someone on the Trees' network is "sinfulvirgins.com" or something along those lines, so maybe our bandwidth is being consumed by someone in the trees hosting a pornography site? (I don't really feel like trying to confirm the site or story)


Quotes
   "Its ridiculously cold in here!" -Chen, upon returning after a weekend in LA
   "I wish I was drunk so I wouldn't mind drinking the Davis water" -Kristy, on our lack of beverage alternatives, and alcohol.

   My heater is broken again. The temperature in my apartment hasn't reached above 60 in days. The hardest part is getting out of bed I think - there is a clear corrolation between the temperature discrepency between under-covers and not and ability to convince one's body that getting up is something one should do.

   Also, the dishwasher is still in shambles, and has been for at least a week since roommate Jason got in a fight with it.

   Also, I am out of "coffee legale," the suprisingly bearable instant coffee which I normally subsist on. I have no idea where to find more.


   On the plus side however, I went to Kristy's place for thanksgiving (after she and I had thanksgiving with MY parents two weeks ago as well!), and it was delicious. Pieces of sausage in the stuffing? Who would have thought. Brilliant idea.
   Kristy's family calls her "Kris." This makes for some confusion


Previously on EMOSNAIL
   Year Ago Today: The System Is [No Longer] Down! - computer finally returns operational, after having being out of commission for months and having a lobotomy. -- in a stunning coincidence, Kristy just got her computer back today from a similar long period computerlessness