Kitten Pranks
I think I forgot to mention it, but Bailey, our favourite kitten, played a saucy prank on Kristy the other day -- He turned her screen upside down!
Apparently the Dell Inspiron 6000 laptops Kristy & I both have have an option to rotate everything displayed 180 degrees. The primary purpose for such an option presumably is playing pranks on computer owners who are unaware of this.1
Personally I think Bailey actually whupped out a screwdriver while we were gone and manually rotated the monitor, he's such a crafty little scamp!
Yesterday we had the hearing for Case 32, Nanakul v. SGAO (the mysterious missing Student Bill of Rights). It was less exciting than usual, since Justice Judy "I like to try to make counsel cry" Reed was flooded in down in Vacaville ("I have been up since 0400 moving livestock to higher ground" wtf Justice Reed?). Fortunately we made quorum without her and Justice Joe "Dissenting" Harney. As the rest of us were leaving after we'd finished deliberating for the evening we accidently stumbled upon a secret meeting, but they cleverly swore us to secrecy thus thwarting exposure.
We decided in our opinion we are going to appear to favour one side on the first page, the other on the second2, and then for the ultimate twist we are actually going to attach the missing Bill of Rights to end of the brief. Just you watch.
I had my "second pass" the other day as well. The way this works is one can sign up for 12 units during first pass (but not upper division classes in impacted majors if you are not that major, so I for example couldn't sign up for any of the upper div Communication classes I needed first pass), and then up to 19 units second pass (which, since classes are usually 4 units, often results in an anticlimatic one more class). Then somewhere along the way they ease up and let you add up to 24 or something if you are feeling sadistic.
I am now signed up for: HIS111C (Rome from its earliest history until 476AD), HIS121A (European history from 476AD until the 8th Century), CMN136 (Organizational Communications), and CMN1 (Intro to Public Speaking -- I wanted to take it with the legendary Professor Duax, but he's no longer teaching do to some kind of departmental drama). These classes will complete my minor in History. Additionally I already have a minor in Political Science and major in International Relations completed. I will need one more class for a minor in communications, and in order to graduate I will need to learn how to brew beer.3
At the moment I have 191 units -- next quarter's classes would bring me up to 207. I will need to petition to take up to 225, but I'm told they really just want to make sure you have some kind of plan -- mine being to take those two remaining classes. If I take 12 units in Fall (those two + another class to keep me at full time status), I'll then be at 219. I will then formally integrate my transcripts from UCI & UCLA, which will bring my unit total to 239, thus giving the registrar's office a heart attack.
This Week in International Jurisprudence: The International Court of Justice begins hearings on Bosnia / Herzegovina v. Serbia & Montenegro, in which Bosnia alleges that the state of Serbia/Montenegro has committed genocide against it.
Random Fact of the Day: "Vesna Vulović, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m (33,330 ft) when the DC-9 airplane she was traveling in blew up over Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia, on January 26, 1972." -Wikipedia.
1 Actually, as Chris "I Hate KDVS" McKenzie, who helped us figure it all out, explained, its because fancy shmancy computers for which its useful to turn the whole screen around use the same software.
2This may be a complete lie.4
3For the science breadth requirement I need to take three science classes - I've taken winemaking and nuclear physics already.
4Don't think I won't attach the missing Bill of Rights though.
Picture of the Day
Bailey makes Kristy's screen display upside down (reenactment)
Previously on Emosnail
Three Years Ago Last Friday: SO Now I'm a Cook at IHOP - The day before I had been a cashier at the COHO. I went in to inquire about a job: "do you have any experience as a cook?" "no" "can you start in ten minutes?" "I guess" "good, shave off the muttonchops." And so I shaved off my 18th century stylings in the IHOP restroom. Also this day: Self Entangling Deceitful Webs
Three Years Ago Last Friday: The Following Week - ie the week following the previous entry, up to the day both entries are posted. Working at IHOP, barely finding enough time to sleep between school, work, & parties.
Three Years Ago Last Saturday: I'm Only Happy When It Rains - An uneventful day for once. And it rained. Rain is sublime.
Three Years Ago Last Sunday: IHOP Opens - Vanessa Quits - Vanessa quits after the first day of normal operations at IHOP, sending me into terror and alarm since she's a better cook than me and I hadn't worked yet on this first day. Also, people are circulating a petition against racist vandalism -- I remark on how totally moronic this is and the discouraging implications it has on the psychological conditions of the petitioners. Also it came "to my attention today that this upcoming weekend's Model UN conference actually starts on Thursday" -- the same can be said of me five minutes ago (see below)
Three Years Ago Today: UCBMUNC 2003 - Halfway through the UC Berkeley MUN Conference (so only read down to Saturday). Hung out with my friend Sally Lorenz whom I'd met at a conference the quarter before (one will recall I chaired with her at two conferences last quarter as well), & met her friend Mara Stringfield (whom I will be chairing with at the AMPAC conference this year). While hanging out with Mara, Paul Amnapayout decided to ask her if she was "planning to get with [me] ... because if you are I think you should know Kris is awesome," but I'd walked away at around the elipses. Fortunately, however, this has givin me something to recount in all future "what was your most embarressing moment?" ice breakers. Also on this day I defied all rules of probability by completely randomly running into my former best friend Alberto in San Francisco. This brief conversation was the last time I've seen or communicated with him.
Two Years Ago Yesterday Today: Pigtails / Ponytails - (Leap Year) "Courtesy of dictionary.com: Pigtail - A plait of braided hair; Ponytail - A hairstyle in which the hair is held back so as to hang down like a pony's tail." Apparently some disagree. "But nothing's hotter than kristy with her hair in two buns atop her head." (Double true!)
Year Ago Today: Winter Election 2005 - An objective account of the "Disqualification Controversy" regarding the disqualification and subsequent requalification of Rob Roy by the previous Elections Committee.
Year Ago Today: War on Wrong: Escalation in MUN - RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED: It turns out the officers of UCDMUN secretly hated their "friend" and associate Under-Secretary-General Gena Rinaldi. Gena resigns, admits that the previous election had probably been fixed and divulges that the Secretariat had tried to expel me from the club.
Apparently: This upcoming weekend's Model UN conference actually starts on Thursday, ie tomorrow. So it looks like tomorrow at 10am I'm shipping out for Los Angeles.