One Year Later
Once again I've actually been too busy to write an entry for several days. I find this to be deplorable.
CCC(P)MUNC 2004
Friday and Saturday there was the Contra Costa County Model UN Conference down in San Ramon in the SBC Palace. No really I took some pictures, hopefully I'll get them up here eventually, in the SBC Centre you can see your phone bills at work: creating palatial buildings with mile-long corridors and multiple lakes. I'm told Kritsy's prom was held there.
CCCMUN is put on by the CCC Board of Education, traditionally with the UC Davis Secretary-General as their figurehead SG. As such its well funded but usually put together with ridiculous oversights because the people putting it all together have no idea how MUN should be. Last year they outlawed the passing of notes in committee, which is the primary form of communication for delegates. This year things were a lot better. The only glaring problem that comes to mind is that delegates didn't have their country names on their name-tags.. unfortunately though I don't think most of the people reading this will understand the significance of that unless I go into a thorough explanation of how committee works, and I don't think anyone would feel interested in reading that anyway.
Now normally I have a lot to say about a committee when its over. All these funny little stories about things that happened and inside jokes that developed, but really, I can't think of anything to say about the committee. I think it was shorter than committee usually is -- two half days, whereas I think one full day and one half day is more common. We had 55 delegates in committee, our topic was "International Drug Trade." The representative of Cuba in his first speech explained "Cuba is a communist utopia. We have no drug problem. This is because we execute all those we find are involved with drugs. Through our decisive policy we have rid our country of this problem and we recommend the rest of you do so as well..." this led to some other highlights, for example someone claimed that it costs much more to execute someone than to hold them in prison, to which the representative of Libya responded "in countries such as ours and Cuba, we have a very streamlined legal process so that executing people is actually much cheaper than holding them in prison." Under international pressure to be more merciful, Cuba amended the resolution he was working on to allow first time offenders caught with small amounts of illicit drugs to simply be sent to re-education camps.
Return to the Beginning
On Sunday Kritsy and I went down to Berkeley, because it was there that a year ago today in the rain on Telegraph we decided that we would be boyfriend/girlfriend (then we ate naan for a dollar and had tea).
So we were marauding Telegraph and it happens that we find a pair of docs that fit Kritsy perfectly at the Buffalo Exchange for $30. We later found an identical pair of the docs at a shoe store for $150. I think the only reason they were still there is because they had really ugly yellow/brown laces in them. Being that they had twenty pairs of ringlets we put two pink laces into each shoe, tying them in the front and at the top, and I laced them so it makes Xes on alternating sides all the way up. Its kickass, I want to patent the pattern. (=
Also Moe the Flower-Man thought I gave him a twenty when I gave him a tenner (even though he scrutinized it?), so he tried to give us $16 instead of $6 in change but being the good kids that we are we were like "such sauce Moe." Anyway he was really nice and you all should visit him for your flowering needs.
Erratum
Two different reporters called me Sunday morning, and I find that they still managed to not check a significant fact against me. The senator they interviewed stated that he didn't know of any time the removal of a court member for absences has come before the Senate. I'd like to point out that (A) thats the point, I was supposed to tell the (then) senate president pro tem who would report it to the senate and he never did and that was the problem and (B) it in fact did happen and last year a court member was considered for removal for that reason before the ASUCD senate. The way it is currently written in the Aggie article it implies I am not reporting unexcused absenses that are occuring, which is a gross misportrayel of the situation.
Picture of the Day
A reporter covers another of those vigorous rallies of the turbulent 2002/2003 years. My favourite thing about this picture actually is the guy on the left who is like "wtf?! get lost!" to the other guy. Also you'll note the big bald guy on the right, ASUCD presidential candidate of the Leadite party (2002?). I really rather liked the guy actually but his VP running mate was the odious Miss Mary Vasquez, who among other things, stated during a senate meeting that the Irish people had never suffered worth noting and sued the California Aggie because of, and effectively ending, their end-of-the-year humorous edition.
Previously on EMOSNAIL
Year Ago Last Thursday: Quotes - quotes from my War, Nuclear Weapons, and Military Science professors. My favourite of which was the nuclear weapons professor's explanation of his grading policies: "when you start incinerating people, partial credit is not an option" -- Further Seems Forever also played at Davis on this day.
Year Ago Last Saturday: The No-Cal/So-Cal Exchange Programme - Croat and Anna come up from OC for the Tiger Army/Necromantix/Rancid show, are convinced UC Davis is PCU. Also ASUCD President Sara Henry and advisor Vicki Swett mess with ASUCD judicial proceedings in contempt and disregard to the constitution and bylaws, and expect me to do the same. Also another great quote from Professor Jensen: "...a kilogram of plutonium contains a metric buttload of energy..."
Year Ago Today: Miss Kristy Heidenberger became my girlfriend in the rain on Telegraph.