The Agrinautica

Week in Review
   Last weekend I journeyed up to Davis. I had posted on craigslist rideshares the night before I left (ie Thursday night) and to my suprise by the next morning I had a taker. So I went up with this girl Linda who didn't try to kill me once, and halved my gas costs!
   Friday evening I hung out in Berkeley with the lovely Sarah Edwards and her Boalt Law School compatriots. We hung out in this bar in Berkeley called Becketts, which was a lovely little place. Then we watched the movie Hot Fuzz and I must say it was much more excellent than I had expected. Not watching TV ever and therefore not being privy to trailers and such, I had expected it to be just another lame hollywood slapstick comedy ... but in fact it was British and hilarious!
   ( Brief spoiler )

   I spent six hours at a Senate meeting on Thursday. Then I wanted to die. I'm glad I only ever came within 24% of enough votes to become a Senator. Moreover, I'm glad choice voting wasn't in place at the time, otherwise I surely would have been subjected to 6+ hour Senate meetings for an entire year.

   Today (Friday) I went down to the barber in the basement of the MU to get a haircut. When I got down there the guy in the chair was in the middle of saying "have you ever heard of daviswiki.org?" Turns out the individual was JasonAller.
   After that I felt like having a hot dog, so I headed over to the Hot Dogger. There I got the "gut bomb," which turned out to be heaping with cheese and beans and peppers and things, and I found to be quite satisfying. I made the mistake of trying to eat it like a normal hot dog at first rather than with knife and fork, but it turned out to be far too messy.
   And then I met some local punkish youths who informed me that apparently the Hot Dogger is the place to hang out.

   Tomorrow and the next day I will spend nearly all my time at the Model UN conference we are hosting here this weekend.


In Other News: To prove that the Cal Aggie was continually overprinting, local Orwellian Brent Laabs set about collecting the left-over day old aggies at the end of the day. The Aggie retaliated by sending him to Student Judicial Affairs on theft charges. After due consideration, SJA made him sign a contract... to continue the research project.


Picture of the Day

John Salido of University Haircutters, back when he originally mohawked me.

Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Wednesday: Met Sashie - And had some adventures
   Year Ago Yesterday: Experimenting With Alcohol - Roommate Jill actually drinks. Is subsequently studied. Azver valiantly volunteers himself to study Jill further.
   Year Ago Today: Aaron Davis Arrives in Town, Eats Sandwich - and there was much rejoicing.

I JUST ATE A CHEESE DANISH
   Actually I just wanted to show off my new-found ability to make scrolling marquees (but I DID in fact just eat a cheese danish). Hellyes. I'm still dying to know how y'all align things on the right side of the screen.


   Anyway. On Friday I took the 14:15 intercampus shuttle down to Berkeley, which arrived there at about 15:30. I was intended to make contact with my elder brother Tobin, and spend the night at his location. Arriving on the ground in Berkeley I located his place of residence immediately, but opted to wander about a bit before attempting to make contact. So I went down to Top Dogger and ate a delicious hotdog, wandered around a bit on Telegraph, and spent most of the afternoon sitting in the warm sun on the steps in front of Sproul Hall, studying.
   Presently I made a few attempts to reach Tobin via telephonemachine, but they were all unsuccessful. I was however able to reach comrade Michelle (Phelps?) on the phone, a girl I dated in 11th grade but since that time have seen but once (for about 30 seconds), and she invited me to a party that evening, so at least I had something to do.
   It became rather nippy out there if I do say so myself, and still unable to reach Tobin or any other locals I could only wander around homelessly.. hang out in shops merely to stay warm. Went to the familiar Durant Hotel to use its restroom... had another hot dog from Top Dogger, and eventually it was 21:00 and I headed down to the party, which was off hearst somewhere a block or two west of shattuck.
   It was a great relief to be definitively out of the cold, and the people at the party were pretty cool.. it was a nice little shindig of a party. Two people there recognized me from earlier in the day (I was wearing my "UC DAVIS" shirt that everyone always asks if I made myself).
   I ended up spending the night on the couch there. Got up at 07:30 and walked up to the Greek Theatre for Tobin's 08:30 gradumatation. There I met up with the rest of my family; the parents and younger brother Eric, an incorrigable troll. Tobin was graduating in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science (EECS).
   Afterwords we met up with Tobin, his latest woman Nadia, and his eternal roommate Chris Perkins. Now Perkins was only Tobin's roommate for I think two of the five years Tobin had been there, but he will ALWAYS be "the roommate," because.. well.. thats what he is. They're like best friends or something.. ::shurg::
   From there we proceeded to my grandmother's-sister's house (great aunt??) where numerous other relatives descended upon us; most of whom came out of Davis actually. There was of course my two aunts/uncles and subsequent little cousins that I'm accustomed to, but then there were some more distant ones that I wasn't familiar with (as Chris Perkins said, "how come they don't know who you are any better than they know who I am?"). Also around this time I think Tobin's latest woman, Nadia, said "you're family is like a sitcom family, there's The Jock, The Punk, and The Nerd." Obviously meaning Tobin was The Nerd... awww "nerrrrdlove!" (as Diane would say). (=
   AAaaand... then I got home -- The End.

   Oh and mother supplied me with like mass cheese danishes and a pood* of salami!


   Kristy's photos from my party in that recent entry are now on a faster better server thanks to codetoad, so if they weren't loading before, they are now.

   *One pood = 36.4 lbs = 40 funt. Archaic Russian measurements of weight.