The Agrinautica

Today, Part II
   While I was in the IR office being persecuted by the two advisors there, IR director the infamous Professor Siverson walked by the doorway out in the hall. As he did so I thought "oh I want to talk to him." Seconds later he pops his head in the doorway and looks at me, and the following conversation ensued: "Eric?" "Kris" "Fricke?" "yes" "you were in my war class last year right?" "yes. Hey I'm reading your latest book [The Logic of Political Survival] for POL179 right now, and you know there is wording error in the first paragraph?" "Yolk? yes I know..." and well it continued for another minute or two as he complained about the error (he'd found it in the first draft but it never got fixed), but the point is I'm suprised he recognized me, and even more suprised he thought my name was Eric.
   As you may know, my little brother is named Eric, so its not shocking for people from mission viejo to think my name is Eric, but Siverson has surely never met him and its just an odd coincidence.
   My own previous experience with Siverson consists (1) of getting kicked out (for the day) of a 200 person lecture by him freshman year because I'd had the audacity to pass a note (that said "hey how are you?"); (2) getting kicked out of a seminar last year (permanently), because I didn't have upperclassman status; (3) taking POL121 (The Scientific Study of War) with him and calling him on that Denmark also owns land in North America, and that there was in fact a war in 1911 (the "first balkan war").


Quotes of the Day
"I wake up, I see the sun is a new colour!" -Israeli History professor - it was funnier with his jewish accent.
"I've been on both sides of the fence: First I was for it, then I was against it, then I read the report and thought it was a good idea again; kinda like John Kerry" -ASUCD Senator Adam Barr, currently a staunch supporter of retaining choice voting at UCD
"Monarchy is simpler than voting, so I oppose this legislation as stated" -ASUCD Senator Donnie Cohen-Cutler, on the legislation to change from Choice Voting back to the "first past the post" system, which supporters say is simpler.

   Friday I craved of the hot dog, so I ventured down to Hot Dogger down-town and got myself a hot-link. Then I hung out with Gena in the Oxford Circle ("Little Big People") Park. I was so proud to see people hanging out on the equipment there (I had a large part in designing it while on the City of Davis Renovations Sub-Committee for Oxford Circle Park).
   Friday night Kristy and I went to party with Sloshie, Colleen, Nessa, Nizzle, et al in La Salle. It was just a low key event at their place with a small number of people, but there was rampant partying going on all over the complext at large. A nearby party even had a keg of guinness.
   On Saturday I ate lunch/breakfast (at 2pm) with Kristy at Posh Bagel, then headed over to Cafe Roma for an executive meeting of the Agnostic & Atheist Student Assn (AGASA) ("You've got answers, we've got questions").


A Firetruck
   THIS entry mentions the most infamous Emosnail protagonist and this livejournal; and would be interesting to anyone who likes reading about the antics of the ASUCD government, or would be curious to read about ASUCD purchasing a firetruck.
   Note of course that it is not necessarily an objective dissertion on its subject and as such Emosnail does not necessarily endorse any opinions stated or implied in the article except for the last line (" And might I say, Kristy looked might-ee fine at the Senate meeting ;)").


Professor Quotes
   "Would that be... hella?" -Professor Siverson. Class proceeds to stare at him blankly. Someone in the front row whispers to him. Siverson says "oh. Would that be hella cool?" class bursts into applause.
   "Would you say this air conditioning is adequate.... or would you say its pretty fuckin weak?" -Lecturer Avrom Brown.


Unrelated
   The first part of our POL121 final shall consist of but two parts. One: come up with a question. Two: answer it. We're talking multipage essay type question here. Siverson is a cruel cruel man.


Related
   A Year Ago Thursday: Going to Class with Kristy
   A Year Ago Friday: I've Got Vacancies
Speaking of which, I currently need to fill two rooms for next year. PLEASE send any leads you have on people looking for rooms to me.
   A Year Ago Saturday: Promoted to Chief Justice, Swore in Sara Henry