The Agrinautica

   Internet's been inexplicably down more often than not all week. I had more reliable internet access during my roadtrip!!


   Last Saturday (the 29th) I had the LSAT, and there's nothing to report previous to that because I was studying for it 24/7. The lads at Bee Busters spent the weekend lobster fishing though.
   Saturday evening I hung out with my friend Janice in downtown Fullerton. I pwned her in a game of pool -- and then she pwned me in the subsequent three. O=

   Monday I was back at work at Bee Busters (after having been off the previous week studying for the LSAT). I spent much of the day working on the boat down in the docks. Typical.

   The previous week a legal staffing company I'd applied to some time previously called me out of the blue to come interview. Wednesday I started at a law firm near downtown Irvine on a temp assignment. Its a law firm that deals with insurance companies, so when someone spills hot coffee on themselves or slips on a sidewalk, and sues the company, it goes through their insurance and comes to this law firm. As such, the cases have been really interesting so far. As opposed to when I worked at the family law (divorce) Law Firm and got the impression all their cases were vapid and had my enthusiam sucked out of me, the stuff this firm does seems really cool.
   It would be imprudent of me to post about our cases, but I think I can relate a story my mum told me today which is basically like the kinds of cases we deal with. Apparently my grandfather's business had an uneven sidewalk out front that people kept tripping on, so they hired a contracter to come fix it. Apparently the contracter came out to deal with it, and tripped on the sidewalk, and sued them. ?! Yeah, thats what a lot of our cases are like.
   I've got a big desk in a cubicle on the ninth floor of a building. I've been mainly sorting files, which really isn't as bad as I'd have thought.


   Otherwise, I hung out with Mark and Jeff the other day at the Lazy Dog Cafe again.


Picture of the Day
   The removal of gasoline and diesel subsidies last week in Myanmar (formerly Burma)'s military dictatorship caused fuel prices there to rise fivefold, causing buddhist monks to begin mass protests. Journalists were quick to optimistically dub it the "Saffron Revolution" despite the fact that saffron is a colour worn my monks in neighbouring areas, but the Myanmarian monks do NOT wear saffron, and also, it did not lead to a revolution. Among many more serious repressive measures, the military government shut down the internet throughout Myanmar during the crisis.

Japanese reporter Kenji Nagai continues to take pictures as he is shot to death.