The Agrinautica

   A year ago today I extensively experimented with controlling substances for the sake of 30 in 30. Well I've experienced a lot of bullshit since then, so I thought I'd update you all on that. Also I've been spending 20 hours a day deliriously working on history papers, researching people's annals -- so I don't have time to make 30 in 30 videos or the sanity to do the alchemy necessary to create blogging gold.

Experimentation Redux
   Anyway, so yeah last year on this date I did a thorough review of 15 different types of energy drink. This is a sequel to that.
AMP - Amp, the Mountain Dew energy drink, is new since last year. It actually tastes like mountain dew on steroids.. in a good way. Unfortunately they don't sell it in four packs like the other drinks, otherwise I'd stock up. )=
Kabbalah - Kabbalah has come and gone in the intervening year. All of a sudden it was everywhere, and just as quickly it completely disappeared. It was so good, it founded a religion! But yeah I really liked it despite the fact that it was probably part of some creepy religious conspiracy headed by Madonna.
Monster "Juice" - And other forms of "juice" as well. I don't get it. I tried it and it was just.. I dunno. It tasted like an energy drink plus weird.
No Fear Gold - Sobe decided to try to harness the power of "blogging gold" by recreating the chemicals in a bloggists body during such moments of blogging glory. What they discovered was alarming and they promptly destroyed their research and mixed some chemicals together at random. I don't know what specifically they're going for with No Fear Gold, but its a different flavour than normal red can No Fear and I actually kind of like it. Plus both No Fear flavours are currently at $5.99 a four-pack while everything else is at $6.99 and I'm not one to argue with a dollar.
Other Developments: Most energy drinks used to be $1.99 a year ago but now they've risen to $2.19. Forget war for oil (which isn't even keeping the price down), we need to invade someone to keep the price of energy drinks down! Also Red Bull is still a ripoff, and the No Fear drinks finally realized that no one thought they were worth 50 cents more than everything else and actually lowered their prices to below average.

Bonus Question
   Three Years Ago I posed the following hypothetical question:
The Question: What would YOU do if you were sleeping with a russian, but when you woke up they were compeletely gone, like in those movies, only, its THEIR bed??
   And got the following responses:

[11:12:36] shid: uhh, go: hmmm
[11:12:48] shid: then try and scavenge some food from the kitchen
[11:12:53] shid: like ramen or something
[11:13:04] shid: or perhaps a danish

[11:45:46] RunModGirlRun: well, first of all, it would be a russian man
[11:46:01] RunModGirlRun: and second, I would check to see if I was tied up
[11:46:17] RunModGirlRun: third, I would wonder how he cut himself free
[11:47:25] RunModGirlRun: and maybe then, I would raid his refrigerator. and take a shower.

[16:14:00] willnotheal: Well, if I woke up in a Russian bed and my mistress had disappeared, then I would ask myself where the hell she went. I would look to my left (where she was sleeping), just to make sure she really was gone and that I wasn't still drunk from the jello shots the night before. Then I would turn to other hot Russian girl on my right and have mad sex with her until the other one showed up. Then I'd have sex with her. And then with both of them. And just to top it off...I'd have sex with them again.¹

   Well its three years later and its STILL happening to people -- just the other day it happened to Chris Bunch (though it appears likely he only THOUGHT he fell asleep next to a Russian)-- so what would you do?


   Entry of the Day: Okay otimus' entry today was actually pretty funny, though apparently he has way way too much time on his hands -- 30 in 30 - The Game


Meanwhile in the Real World
   There was an epic battle on the quad on campus today, which in accordance with tradition I completely missed out on. (Now in video!!!) Yeah thats how we roll at Davis.

   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.

   Yesterday I worked for five hours, didn't get a break, and spent three hours at "bombay blasters," a place where you have to stand constantly, without even room to pace back and forth, and get constantly splashed.. as this was the last three hours of the park it was way cold. Finally I got to go home twenty minutes early since I didn't get my halfhour break. And I bet they only paid me until 19:30 cause they only pay in 15 minute increments.
   I actually told deepguard Stephanie "Guacamole" Gamache to "bite me" when she told me to rotate faster. That was very therepeutic. Then as I was leaving she was like "why do you get to go home early?" and I was like "because I just spent the last three hours at bombay, and never got a break" to which she replied "well life's not fair" yea well I never said it was biatch, you just asked me why I was going home early. Speaking of deepguards and how they are all climbing over eachother trying to act more important, apparently Barret had some kind of list of the supervisors ranked from his favorite to least favorite, and then Gamache was like "I bet Stacy in the office and I are your least favorites" at which point the other deep guards looked at her and were like "uhhh, you're not a supervisor Stephanie." Neither is Stacy the Office Wench for that matter. But it just goes to show, these people are so delusional they actually forget they're not supervisors. I take some pleasure in knowing that a number of them will be endlessly passed up for promotion as I was.

   I just discovered Suzanne's (your_evenstar) previous journal still exists.. if you want to see my thoughts on the highlights of that um go here. Heehee I know Kristy would tell me this entry is going to make me full of myself.

   Don's going off to prison for a bit apparently. Whoa and reading the comments to that entry Timo says his house got raided based entirely on things he wrote in his LJ. Thats for sucks. But yea just wanted to officially offer condolences over Don's fate. Let me say also that his lj has always been my favorite to read, because I think he has a healthy disdain for LJ and therefore doesn't ramble about crap but writes to the point about real things.. except when he's been emo about Vanessa (=

( quizes from Suzanne's easyjournal )

4th of July Festivities
   So like any evening, it started out with a trip to Diedrichs, which is on the way anywhere anyway. During the short time I was there Suzanne showed up.. which was crazy cause thats where her "Evil Ex" Chris hangs out.. so I don't by any means claim to have had any part in their reconciliation, but I was there when it happened. (= And on that subject she has recently recanted her earlier proclaimation that I am the devil incarnate so.. yea.
   Anyway Diedrichs closed at 6:30 on account of the 4th. Psha on that. But I had to mosey on to go pick up Ashlee and Aimee anyway, so I went off and did that, and then met up with the Diedrichs crew again at a place of Katie D'agistino's in Santa Ana or Anaheim. This place was like... amazing. It was one of them tall narrow places that was hella modern-artsy on the third or fourth floor where it got wider, and an art gallery on the bottem floor... yea. It was the for awesome. And I discovered we had roof access, which led to many of us accessing the roof, and widespread exploring of the rooftops.
   Anyway it was quite the nice little party. But then there was this guy Brandon who I swear is like poser-gay. Like.. gay because he can't get girls so he pretends he doesn't want to. Like.. I got that vibe already but then when he was drunk he could not keep his hands off Aimee or Ashlee. Anyway, he got the drunken idea to throw shiznaz off the roof and kick piping up there and stuff.. and I have no sympathy for him cause (A) that was dumb and immature, and (B) it's Katie's house, ass. So yea the Cracked Out Security Guard apparently somehow managed to figure this out, between being cracked out and well, being cracked out. He was like sweating like no other and stammering and barely coherent... someone said he was prolyl actually on heroin? I don't know but he was for certainly on something. So security-miser gets all up on us and we determine it was definitely Brandon who was the ass and needs to step up and take the blame. And then.. then when asked if anyone else was doing it Brandon said Aimee was (I'm pretty sure that while she WAS up there with him, she wasn't actually throwing shiznaz).. because you KNOW that when you're about to get in trouble with The Man for something you should always try to pull someone else down with you just for company right? Oh wait, NO. That would be reason (C) I have no sympathy for him.
   Anyway, with all this going down most of us decided it was time to split.. so I drove Ashlee and Aimee home.. The End.

   I found out the guy with the Flogging Molly and Steel Reserve shirts is named "Matt." He is for awesome. Matt: "Hey Kris whats your favorite malt liquor?" me: "Steel Reserve, no question." Matt: "Duuude this guy is soo in our Steel Reserve Crew!"


BASICALLY, I NEED A NEW JOB, BASICALLY
   So I had work today. I worked for an hour and then was informed that I am not actually LIFEGUARD CERTIFIED so I couldn't work.. they can't recertify me in that until next saturday morning. (I'm certified in CPR and Defibrillating and other shiznaz like that howeveR). Anyway, the joke's on them, cause I haven't been lifeguard certified for THREE YEARS! Fockers. Yea, basically I'm a bad person its true.
   And I also learned today that I once again didn't pass the Department of State Foreign Service Exam. Aannnd I am currently not enrolled in any classes at UC Davis for the fall. I think I'll look into getting in the illegal arms trafficking business. I hear its lucrative.

   But seriously if anyone knows of anywere that is hiring I need a job.... at a coffeeshop, or lifeguarding, or uhhh as a cook...