The Agrinautica

   So I don't know about the rest of you but I had an exciting weekend of hanging out at the coffee shop and not finding anything better to do. Unfortunately, even most of the other regulars at Diedrichs found something better to do so it ended up just being me and Caroline the girl that's there every day studying for the bar exam. So I broke out the LSAT booklets and studied with her. After Diedrichs closed at 10pm on Saturday we went to the Harbour House restaurant in Dana Point and continued studying for our respective tests until 2.

   Otherwise, Jenelle Bel Isle showed up at Diedrichs on Friday, and Matt Morgan showed up this evening with an interesting haircut.


Picture of the Day

   On my way to the Plain White T's¹ show I stopped by Diedrichs with the lingering hope that I still might find some clue as to what happened to the former "Diedrichs Crew." As it turns out, I did luck out this time and found Krispy and Abby there.


( Where Are They Now? The (former) Diedrichs Crew )

Plain White T's
   The PWT show was awesome. I think it was one of the best shows I've been to in awhile. Afterwords I was going on about how excellent it was to Kristy and I think she hates me for it now because she missed them when they were in the Bay Area.
   I was afraid I'd be disappointed because I've overplayed most of their songs on my playlist, but at least half their set was new material. I think its the only show I've ever seen at Chain Reaction to have crowd surfers (lots of them), and the moshing was excellent. Unlike a lot of shows it wasn't tough guys trying to show off how tough they are and how violently they can mosh and shove, but people just enjoying themselves, it was excellent.
   At the show I hung out with Anna LeLoup (former columnist for the Chosen Echidna) and Camille (mystiqmusic). Afterwords I hung out with Allie Bloomqvist (flyinmonkey) and Laurie (wrong_cow_girl). Incidentally, Anna, Camille and Allie were originally all part of the same group of people but it disintigrated as so many groups do and I think now I'm one of few people who still hangs out with different former members of it.


Poll of the Day
   As regards the first question, assume future interviews would be with real people rather than myself, use the scale used in previous poll questions, where 5 = I love this feature and would like to see much more of it, 4 = I enjoy this feature, 3 = continue to use it at about this same frequency, 2 = I'd like to see less use of this feature, and 1 = please cease and desist with this particular feature.
[Poll #313435]


¹Yes Tobin I realize there is a grammatical error inherent in their name, that is not my doing.

   My two brothers have both arrived home. Immediately after settling in they disconnected my internet access. The relevant equipment is horded away in their rooms. I am writing from my parents computer in the other room.
   In the probably doomed endeavor to keep this journal from parental discovery I must erase the internet history after updating; but alas I don't think that erases the trail entirely, and being on my brother nibot's friends list is an imminent danger on any account.
   I should kill him.


   So while Shalane is over dying my hair Tobin stops by my room and behaves in such a troll-like manner that I have trouble convincing Laney that he is not autistic.
   No my brother is just mind-numbingly evil.


   Saw Dera, Chris Hubert, and briefly Liz (nerdrockliz) at Diedrichs today, among others. While at the Spectrum getting hair dye Shillelagh and I ran into MVHS graduate Ian Butler, and realized he lives with Matt Morgan and the two gay guys.

   So yesterday, Saturday, we were all hanging out at Diedrichs like we allllways do right. And then Mike the Horrible Human decides to up and throw a bottle at two completely random middle-aged women who were coming in to diedrichs (recall when he tried to throw one at a passing SUV), I guess just because he thought that would make him look like one tough doesn't-give-a-shit mofo. Yea well then he had apologize like no other as the ladies cussed him out, and run and hide when the cops showed up.. yea real tough. Anyway so yea he was gone when the cops arrived and gave us all a lecture. A lecture while I'm drinking beer out of a diedrichs cup that I sharpied "sXe" on the top of. Heehee. But yea it sucked. And they were like "we're gonna start cracking down on the people hanging out here." Thanks a lot Mike.
   Then we went to Cordillera elementry, but almost immediately someone yelled "cops" and we fled.. from where they were standing though I'm pretty sure they couldn't see any inbound cops on us. I think it was even Brandon that called it, focker. Then to Top of the World for a bit. Sure enough as soon as we returned to Diedrichs to bring people back to their cars the cop popped up immediately to investigate what we were up to, and then was seen marauding back and forth on the nearby streets. Then I think we spent 40 minutes trying to convince Matt Morgan that he was too drunk to drive. He wouldn't let anyone else drive his car, and he needed his car in the morning so it needed to go home with him.. quite a quandry.

   The one good aspect is that Mike is now blacklisted from Diedrichs. I hope they enforce it.


   Now I work 12:00 to 20:00. I hate that shift.
   The Promise Ring cover of "Gouge Away" by the pixies was going through my head over and over again as I lay in bed this morning for some reason.

   Having complained about the diedrichs lifestyle in my last post, I must say last night was more pleasant than I expected. We totally rocked out at Diedrichs to 80s music Crispy was blasting from his car.. and I swear if I ever get some kind of musical talent and become famous, more than one of my music videos is just gonna be Crispy rocking out. He was wearing his girlfriend Abby's clothes. It was too funny.
   Then we ended up at Top of the World. There were like a dozen of us. We just kicked around there till the sprinklers came on and then we fled. Returning to Diedrichs for the free Pizza Hut (from Taco Bell), these two other guys I've never seen before emerged from the opposite corner of the parking lot on cue for food.. psha on that! So I just relieved them of one pizza and some breadsticks. Later Mike the Horrible Human showed up and asked me how much food I had.. when I said I only had one pizza he made some sarcastic remark that ended in "fuck you!" and left. Obviously he thought I was lying.. awwww I hope I hurt his widdle feelings. Ass.
   I now have a leather jacket, a rather antique looking visor-cap and someone's blanket in my car. I think the blanket belongs to Laney and the other stuff belongs to Matt Christie. On that note Laney broke up with me* yesterday because I was talking to this girl Sarah who showed up. I was heartbroken. But "its cool we can still be friends."
   Suzanne is "addicted to the Diedrichs Kids"


   Just got back from Wild Rivers. Couldn go swimming because they were in the middle of a state audit. I learned that Aquatics Director Kevin Kopeny hasn't been around because "he's still at that court case." I of course have no knowledge of a court case.. they like to keep these things hush hush. I hope they get good and sued. ::Shakes fist::


   I totally crave a sandwich.


   *psh Laney is totally Matt Morgan's gf. Pay attention.

   For the extremely concise version of yesterday's activities, check this.

   Additionally I met some friends at "the chocobean" coffee shop to transfer them funds on behalf of someone else as part of a certain secret operation (and no it doesn't involve trafficking of drugs). Apparently they had an aversion to Diedrichs. ::shurg::
   Then I swam laps
   Then we had us a bonfire on capo beach again... it was tight, sitting on the beach with the bonfire, 40 of steel reserve in hand, while Crispy plays his guitar. Even if he WAS playing dashboard songs hehehe.
   Matt told me they are totally hiring at the lumber yard he works at. I am totally going to check it out. He and Laney apparently suddenly broke up yesterday. ::shurg::
   Then we went to a jacuzzi. I don't think any of us actually live in the community where its located but we know the code to get in for some reason.
   Evening concluded with Katie and I getting free taco bell at midnight. Apparently they do this like every night. We didn even need to say anything we just walked up to the window and they handed us three personal-pizzas and two orders of breadsticks (its a taco bell / pizza hut). Then Alyssa, who hadn been out with us that night, randomly showed up... cause you know, the Diedrichs lot is the place to randomly show up at at midnight.

Spotlight on the Diedrichs Crew
   So I realize I'm casually bandying around these people's names like everyone knows who they are, even though _I_ didn't even know almost any of them two weeks ago. And seeing as I like to think that people read my livejournal, and therefore hope that while it may have massively long entries, it at least is not disconcerting like that, I shall explain a bit about the people whose natural habitat is the Diedrichs off La Paz.

   The only one of them I knew more than two weeks ago was Katie D'agistino. Her best friend is Laney, whom I call "Shillaligh" ("shill-ay-lee"). Shillaligh WAS dating this kid Matt, who's pretty for awesome. But he's not to be confused with the OTHER Matt, formerly "the guy with the Steel Reserve & Flogging Molly shirts" (or SRFM). Then there's the two Chrises, Krispy (Chrispy?), and Croa (AKA "Croat")(Suzanne's "Evil Ex"). Apparently I am "K-Dawg," at least according to Laney. Also there is totally Becka (momentsxwasted), whom I just inspired to write The Diedrichs Crew - In Depth. Otherwise there's other people that come and go, but these are the kids that are ALWAYS at Diedrichs.


Life at the House of Fricke
   So I've been swimming regularly. As a consequence my dad has taken to jokingly inviting me to go swim with them in the ocean at 6am. They really do this. Like once a week or so he and his friends swim a mile in the ocean at 6am. Wacky. In addition they of course do lots of other working otu too, but 6am in the ocean. ::shudder::. Dad runs triathalons you see.
   After dinner the other day dad invited me to try some excellent honey that recently came from one of the hives. It really was particularly exquisite honey. It just struck me a very Fricke moment though... us and our beehives.
   And then that same evening (this is all from day before yesterday, when my only lj entry was the quizes), I notice a black widow spider in a jar on the table. Apparently mother found it at the yarn store she now works at... and of COURSE decided to bring it home as a pet. My family is kinda weird.


   OMG, further proof that COMMIES are REAL ULTIMATE POWER, though you can see other opinions here. The sorority girl one is particularly choice. And of course, pirates have always been strong contenders for real ultimate power.


and as if this entry wasn't already long enough...
Dogs on Highways - Two Opinions
CON by Miss Phylicia Witherington
PRO by Chris "Croat" Plancich.