The Agrinautica

Sterling Suxors
   Last night the fire alarm went off again at Kristy's complex, Sterling, and proceeded to go off for quite some time. I think this is at least the third time in the last six months I've been there when the alarm went off, and I distinctly remember it going off for 40 minutes straight one evening. Now I've lived in The Trees for a year and a half now, and NOT ONCE has the alarm gone off here. Reason #513 why Sterling is a sucky place to live full of immature people.
   The alarm went off about as often back when I was in the dorms, but THERE they always managed to shut it off within ten minutes TOPS.


Auntie Bev & Uncle Ben
   Yes the name similarity is as bad as say... "Kris & Kristy." Ben & Bev are one of two sets of aunt/uncles I have in town here. They live on J Street. On Thursday Kristy and I had dinner at their place. On Saturday I stopped by there to borrow two wineglasses and a corkscrew for the vday plans. Today (Monday) I stopped by to return the wineglasses, and ask for help understanding "chi squared," a statistical technique which will be on my test tomorrow. While an employee of some sustainable agriculture part of the University (That keeps the agricultural industry informed of our latest revelations here at Davis or something I think), Aunt Bev is also a stats grad student on campus.
   This story has no further point. Ben & Bev are excellent however. And damn can they make a delicious Thai dish.


Picture of the Day

Kristy & Kris
Last Thursday, With Cat Margarite
© Bev Ransom 2004

Tear Gas & Thai Food
   Friday evening Kristy and I decide to go investigate the restaurant Thai Recipes. Last time they (she and all the usual people.. yea.. I was busy though d= ) went to Thai Recipes they apparently had a malevolent troll of a waitress, but they were a big group so the waitress may have been misbehaving just cause she knew she was gonna get her tip anyway.. on any account we were feeling adventurous and decided to give it another investigation.
   Firstly however, since parking is crazy difficult in Davis, we parked behind Fuzios and those places.. and walking past the front of Fuzios ran right into my Uncle Ben and Auntie Bev. That was crazy sauce.
   Anyway, for my $8+ I got a highly unsatisfactory amount of food. It was good but hellllla small.. like Fuzios portions are ginormous in comparision (Fuzios = weaksauce portions itself). Comparing it to Sophia's Thai restaurant, the food was much better (Sophia's quality I would definitely rate as weaksauce), but the free refills on Thai Iced Tea at Sophia's and the fact that I only needed to eat three people's meals to feel content puts Sophia's definitely in the lead. I think there might be at least one more Thai restaurant in town though so next time I'm goin out to eat I guess I'll investigate that one (Thai Nakorn?).

   Back at Kristy's apartment complex... well Kwisty lives in "Stirling University Something", commonly known as "Stirling," or "Starlington." "Arlington" you see is the infamous party crazed apartment complex (affectionately known as "the second year dorms," because while only first years live in dorms here I guess Arlington had a notoriously high level of second years), but I believe Arlington has calmed down a bit lately.. anyway I've never seen it at all like Starlington was Friday night.. which brings us back to Starlington:
   ...so I leave Kwisty's apt at like 1am to get a CD out of her car... first of all the hallway is totally filled with smoke or fog or some kind of thick white obscurant which has reduced visibility to about ten feet, and when inhaled causes severe caughing. I suspect either (A) someone exploded a fire extinguisher or (B) the police broke up a party using teargas.
   Anyway music with extremely heavy bass premeated the entire building, and the sounds of raging partying similarly seemed to come from no specific direction but oozed from the walls in every direction.. exiting the tear-gas filled hallway one was met with a sight that confirmed that indeed people were partying all over the place. Like.. whoa.


The Sacred Order of Kadafi
   Saturday all day we had our Model United Nations mock-conference (isn't that redundant?). Just the people from our school, which amazingly numbered about 40+. I was a bit sceptical at first but it turned out okay I think. I guest-spoke in World Health Organization on the topic of AIDS/HIV as Libya, informing everyone, as is official Libyan policy, that HIV is an evil American conspiracy designed to make the rest of the world dependant on US pharmaceuticals (also since the US insisted that AIDS prevention education was key, I declared that they were also using it as a way to "impose their craven and depraved American morality on the rest of the world." After this speech committee broke down for a short time while people asked questions such as "does he ALWAYS speak like that??" such sauce.
   Back in my own beloved committee, DISC (we only ran two committees), I also spoke as Libya, urging everyone that arms control is complete bollocks, but not in those words. Cuba in DISC actually was arguing for the same saucey policy, against everyone else, and I saw to it that he got the "Spirit of Libya" award (which of course I made up for the occasion).

   That evening Kristy and I went over to Sloshie's, where of course drinking abounded.


ASUCD Intrigue, As Usual
   Today during Entertainment Council meeting I mentioned that ASUCD Senator Lydiana Alfaro had firmly blamed and condemned Ent.Con. for the Taking Back Sunday Incident, saying during last weeks Senate meeting that EntCon had been explicitly told by the LGBT not to proceed with the show.. the exact opposite of what I had heard. The EntCon staff unanymously declared that Senator Alfaro gets no more favors, and is now persona non grata to the EntCon. Ah campus drama.. ah the many interesting revelations of my ten minutes of attendance at last weeks Senate meeting.