The Agrinautica

   So yesterday, after much sitting around and reading of the Ramanyana, which I have determined is the best story ever written, I actually went out and was sociable.
   I went to see Estereo and Radio Cure at the Sweet Bean cafe in Elk Grove with comrade Garian Cika. cartoontom was there of course, and pocketbookannie is in Estereo...
   I bought the Radio Cure CD "Losing the Signal," and then at the party later on that night Annie gave me their other CD, "Running in the Red," as an early birthday present. Yaay.. thankyou Annie!! (=

   From there Miss Cika and I proceeded back to Davis, where we picked up an In-N-Out burger (mmmmm) and the infamous Thomas Grossman. Now if you don't know of Tom (some of you may recall him as "the microbiologist"), well... yea. I'll tell you about him later. (= But anyway, we then proceeded to Kim's birthday party.
   The party was pretty low key, but Gerri, Chaz, and Nick were there, among others (including one guy who didn't say a thing the whole time but alternated lying on the floor with sitting in a chair staring vacantly about, and another guy who was on his cell phone the whole time). The aforementioned Annie and Tom showed up for a little bit as well. And.. yea. At one point, round about say 2am, there were like three couples in various places in the room in various stages of one-trying-to-seduce-the-other, Antonio the weird drunken guy, Garian, and myself. Being as we all know the picture of innocence I would have nothing to do with this rampant premarital kissing. That and Cika and I got over THAT like a year ago.
   So yea, I won't speculate as to what our comrade Tom may or may not have done last night, or with whom.. you have to ask someone else for that.. or like.. buy me alcohol.. or something.


   In completely unrelated news I discovered a livejournal community titled letusbekris: "This is a community for people who want to become Kris, lovers of Kris, and individuals who are already Kris." Now THAT is.. craziness.


QUOTE OF THE DAY:
   Christine: So what exactly do you do in the Coast Guard?
   Kris: Do you bravely navigate ships where no one has navigated them before?
   Chaz: I work in headquarters.
   Kris: So you bravely navigate papers across your desk?

   So of course this morning I was touring my friend Brianna ("Bree") LeMay around campus because she is considering either this place or like, SLO I think. In ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. She's so crazy. Yea.


   I got back the interrogation story I wrote. Silly teacher who recons herself so distanced from conventionalism established herself to firmly subscribe to an odd regime of "dialogue should not deliver information" which is starkly opposed to what I was initially taught (though I think the context I was taught it in was a theory by Shakespeare, and playwriting may be different, as it is essentially ALL dialogue), but the definitiveness with which teacher is convinced there should be an utter seperation of dialogue and information I find foolish. So psha on her.
   As USUAL she wrote "good start to an interesting story" on it. Half the characters are freakin DED in the end and the whole issue is nicely wrapped up within the story, so how she sees this leading to a larger story is beyond me.


   As can be seen by the previous entry Annie (pocketbookannie) taught me a crafty trick to host pictures at geocities. In her infinite wisdom she also taught me how to make those entries where you click on something to make it expand, and how so put that little link to someone's user account as well. She wrote these numerous things on a napkin for me.


   The ASUCD Supreme Court is being foolish again, as usual. They want to have a weekly column in the Aggie, in which they will discuss god knows what. I'm a bit concerned because there's a strong precedent of Supreme Courts NOT going around offering unsolicited opinions on things. It appears that the supporters of this idea have strong support among the others of the Court however, so we'll see we'll see.. their first "article" it appears will the opinion they wrote about why they aren't taking the last case (Birman, Fricke vs whomever), so I can deal with that.. we'll see what future issues they try to write about and gun them on a case by case basis.


   And now.. now it is 05:35(am), and I must write "Rewrite the beginning of a myth, fable, or fairy tale through a new perspective. If you always write in first person, try second or third. If you always write in third person, try first or second, ect. You may alter the setting here as well, and make it contemporary, if you wish. (1-3 typed pages)" before 14:10, and I'd LIKE to study hella russian before office hours at 10:00am, as we have a test tomarrow and..yea.
   As regards the writing assignment.. there's not much room to be imaginative and crazy with it; I mean sure I could take something completely out of context in those parameters and like.. put Beowulf in space or something wack like that.. but I dunno.. thats too expected ..it just doesn't feel right. I strongly believe that first person is wack, and second person is crap, but whatever, I guess I'll do first since I always do third. Seriously thoguh I think writings in 1st person are usually jsut a cheap way the author tries to make something seem more personal.. I think it works about as well as using rampant profanity to make a point. And second person? Thats just some sick bastardized cross between first and third. Gah, I hate aspiring writers. I think one should not aspire directly to be a writer (As does our teacher and numerous in the class), but merely write because one has something to say, something to write. And if in so doing they happen to bring themselves success as a writer, so be it. I hate people.

   Anyway right now I'm of the opinion of doing this character Humbaba that is killed by Gilgamesh in Gilgamesh, since it turns out my original intention of doing Grendel from Beowulf has SO been done. Psha on that. I better start writing now.