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   Okay basically I just broke the first five days of 30 in 30 I into two entries because it was mondo long. Here is the second part, Days 4 & 5:

   Day 4: By day four the differences between those with blogstamina and those without was becoming apparent. This day brought the first failures to post, neither mrkevincostner nor oystercracker posted this day, though they picked up again the following day. shekb managed to succeed where jdryznar & incomple were consistently failing, by making a funny entry about Bush & Cheney; lerani posted about the Garfield movie and how it tries to portray itself as edgy; stephenl posts an ode to a jelly doughnut; and apoplecticfittz hits blogging gold with The Ten Blogging Commandments (Blogmandments?).
   Day 5: apoplecticfittz composes horoscopes; stephenl realizes that even if he posts the most boring entry he can, he'll still get 31 comments, and lerani hates him for it, but actually writes a nice little entry about her drunken loathred for the whole undertaking. feuders goes off the deepend. shekb effectively summarizes the fate of the bloggist in a post about how despite all his other failures and shortcomings, at least one of his entries comes up number six on a google search.

Current Music: Notwist - Pilot

   So yesterday the megabloggers and I celebrated festivus via a an AIM chat room. This prominantly consisted of the "airing of grievances," in which it became apparent that everyone thinks I'm "not hilarious enough" and my font hurts their eyes. In contemplating this I realized the megablogging goals of general hilarity I embraced six months ago have recently taken second stage to goals of becoming the premier current even blog of UC Davis. While we are somewhat pleased by the success in this area, people getting stabbed 29 times or bludgeoned to death in restrooms probably doesn't count as amusing. As to the font claim, I laugh nefariously at all who don't recognize its beauty.

   Anyway, when I asked apoplecticfittz for his sagely advise on how to be more hilarious, he recommended I be more mean as mean is always funny. In response to this peace of "wisdom" I say: "Apoplecticfittz - You are so full of shit. You think you are funny and are one to talk about me? You are not and are instead lame. You do not deserve merriment this holiday season, you deserve to be mutilated by a giant squid. Die plz."
   I suppose that was pretty funny. But alas I didn't write that, he did.
   Anyway, my grievances against the other people involved were that rote needs to be less menshevik and more bolshevik. Less the creepy idealistic communism and more the bold and spicey realpolitik variety. Embrace the breshnev doctrine comrade. emd, as I said I was traumatized by that phone post you made. Learning you faked it (five months later!) has taken a great burden off my shoulders, but I mean, you don't see apoplecticfittz waxing himself during phone posts do you? And otimus, everyone else gets to make fun of you, but I don't know enough about you to participate. I'm not sure I want to know you better, but I feel I'm missing out. Give me reasons to make fun of you as well.
   In conclusion, you should all be forced to date colossal squid. Colossal squid that become extremely irritable if you are not at all times properly waxed (especially you incomple)!

   Also I'm about to be deported to the maternal grandparents house in Camarillo for christmas, as usual. Though its been well established that I don't eat sheep as a religious conviction, they are purportedly intent on having lamb for dinner.
   Religious conviction you say? "What religion is this" and "I thought you were a fundamentalist agnostic" you might say. Well see, if one does not have arbitrary religious prohibitions, one lacks moral foundation, and might then float freely about in a moral vacuum to be batted at like a pinata by the more principaled. When I was a wee lad these same grandparents tried to feed me their erswhile pet sheep, Blackberry, and I took a solemn vow to never touch the unholy material.

Current Music: Radio Cure - Oh Holy Night

   As evidenced by that previous entry, I'm clearly losing my sanity. In fact, I determined just how far from sanity I am. Here are the results

emosnail-incomple-oystercracker-_amandalauren-fienduntildeath-__war_room__-sanity¹

   As you can see, not only am I relatively far from sanity (random ljs are usually four or five "hops" apart, as opposed to six in this case), but only incomple connects me to sanity.

Today - Return to Wild Rivers
   Today was an employee party at Wild Rivers, where after being employed for six years I am NOT currently an employee. I'll probably come back at some point though to make this my seventh season, after all with 93 rescues I just HAVE to try to break 100 now.
   My parents tried to convince me I should shave off the mohawk before I showed up there if I ever wanted to work there again, but thing is, I've been waiting to show up there with a mohawk for like four years.
   It was really nice to see everyone again. Nearly everyone who was a deep guard last year is a supervisor now. I've worked there four years longer than most of the current supervisors had when they were supervisored - wish I could've found my "unpromotable" shirt this evening.
   Supervisor forrest441 showed up wearign a $60 shirt and someone called him metrosexual. Also supervisor Hethr kept calling out "hand check!"s in the warming pool² every five minutes. It was a bit unnecessary considering that I don't think thats really gonna stop anyone - she seemed to just enjoy doing hand checks.

¹Source: http://www.petekrawczyk.com/lj_connect/
²Its a "warming pool" and not a "spa" because it only gets lukewarm, and not a "jacuzzi" because that's a brand name.

Related
   Pictures: of Wild Rivers - Featuring forrest441 himself, and pictures from the wild animal park before Wild Rivers was built on its ruins.
   Year Ago Today: Violations - getting violated by parking tickets twice in one day, and talking to Wild Rivers Operations Director Kevin Kopeny (which I did today as well)

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Cranberries - Dreams

   Not much time today, gotta pack everything up and suchforth. Tomorrow I'm going to be on the train all day, so thats gonna set me even FURTHER behind my vow of 30 entries in 15 days )=< but once I'm home maybe I'll have time to catch up.
   And tomorrow, tomorrow y'all are going to get 11 Hours in Amtrak Custody. At least halfway as exciting as incomple's 24 hours in Borders. Well maybe if I actually had a digital camera.

   I had an idea for this entry but I don't think I have time for it now, because Kritsy is comin over before too long and I need to pack.

Discussion Topics of the Day
   So instead I'll try to start some discussions. Please respond to as many of the following as possible, and then try to convince other commenters that you are far more correct than they are.
   Topic 1: How would the world be today if Vladimir Lenin had embraced a regime of bolshevik emo-ism rather than communism (assuming he could somehow have been familiar with Bright Eyes and Postal Service). Would there have been a different logo other than the hammer & sickle? Would he have preferred Dashboard or something better like Promise Ring (or name an emo band of your choice)?
   Topic 2: Which american music group could you most easily picture Saddam Hussain being a part of?
   Topic 3: If one of the following were to grow an awesome mohawk, who would be more likely to do so? (A) George W Bush, (B) George Bush senior, (C) Condoleeza Rice, (D) John Ashcroft, (E) Donald Rumsfeld.
   Topic 4: Who would have kept a more interesting livejournal? (A) Ivan IV (the terrible), (B) Taliban leader Mullah Omar (did they ever catch that dude?), (C) Stalin, (D) Mousolinni (sp?), (E) Ghengis Khan, (F) Attila the Hun.
   Bonus Point on Topic 4: Would it be a megablog or an underblog?

   Also related to Topic 4, an excellent example of what one of these world leaders' livejournals might be like is that of North Korea (DPRK)'s kim_jong_il__.

Related
   Year Ago Today: Naught but a Meme

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Tiger Army - Outlaw Heart

Megaunderbloggery
   In a chance mishap of procrastination today, while rooting about on livejournal I discovered some interesting livejournals. They termed themselves "megabloggers." Some definitions as used by them:
      Underblogger - "An underblogger uses LJ to keep an online diary, as it was meant to be, really." (apoplecticfittz, in The Frasky Awards)
      Megablogger - Someone who writes to entertain people, or as apoplecticfittz put it "A megablogger writes to make an ass out of him/herself in hopes of entertaining someone, anyone." (ibid.)
   Now I myself have never liked the word "blog," but it seems to be slowly and inexorably becoming rooted in society like a social disease.
   I think my own livejournal is sort of a megaunderblog, since I try to write it both in journal form and I try to make it interesting to read even for those who don't have a vested interest in the finer points of my daily misadventures. Its like.. a megablog dedicated to the subject of interesting things about my daily adventures perhaps? I think it may have fulfilled this mission better in the beginning, when it had daily features on things like "Social Deviants Who Frequent the Coffee House," and classic stories like "The Girl That Had a Boyfriend (Other early features: my original LJ Friends Explained and The Am(y)ies Explained). Reading the megablogger's entries inspired me to put renewed effort into regaining the lost glory of this livejournal and making entries people might actually consider commenting to (gasp).

30 Entries / 30 Days
   Apparently, several of these megabloggers partied too hard around the first of the month and drunkenly swore to write 30 entries in 30 days. I perused at least briefly all of the identifiable participants, and have determined my favourite to be incomple.
   I was so inspired by these megabloggists actually, that I've been inspired to attempt to join them in their 30 / 30 adventure. Two things about this: (A) theoretically I update every day (again back in the hey day this used to be true. Lately its been more similar to the publishing record of the "weekly" Chosen Echidna); (B) the month is half over already. Yes, that means I'll have to make TWO posts a day to catch up.
   Even though in the past I've been rather against multiple posts per day, I do believe I am going to attempt to catch up with these kids (unless they decide I'm an insult to megablogging and demand that I cease and desist), and subject your friends lists to two of my attempts per day.

   And maybe its because I'm becoming a bit delirious from finals, but I even have a mild interest in replicating their 24 Hours in One Place stunts. I'm thinkin the abandoned wild animal park next to wild rivers... absolutely no guarantees about that though.

   So there you have it: 30 Posts in 30 Days, my new quest.

   Also, I've decided I'm going to need to take advantage of the phonepost feature of having a paid account sooner or later.

\/ ATTN! \/   Also, last call for people to get me in contact with friends of theirs that need a place to stay for next year. Please don't make me resort to random people.
/\ ATTN! /\

Poll Question of the Day
[Poll #309062]
EDIT: "...paid account made him mad" "...it, any Feature..." Emosnail Internat'l regrets the errors.

Related
   Year Ago Monday:
      Stuck In Davis - wherein is described how I spent a hellish week hating life and trying to finish a paper after one (1) year of procrastination. Also Garian was in town and we hung out (recall she was in town the other day this year)
      Tales of a Desk Lamp - An entry inspired by my frequent away message ("pretending to be a desklamp so no one will notice me.")
   Year Ago Today: STILL here

Current Mood: delirious
Current Music: Cake - Cool Blue Reason