Deputy District Attorney Tim Wallace & I have embarked on a joint lobbying mission. Our goal is to convince the owner of the Fat Cat Cafe (Edna) one of these days to make corn chowder as the soup of the day.

Historicity
   Moving right along with the pre-Emosnail series, since I left off in the middle of a story   Tuesday October 26th, 1999: ( Read more... )

   On second thought, I'm really not sure anyone actually disputes the Case 31 ruling other than a handful of nutjobs who only believe in government By the legislature For the legislature.

Poll Van Schoelandt v. ASUCD Senate

Historicity, continued
   ...Instead, I think I will continue the series on events that took place in the mists of time prior to livejournal. We left off in ( Read more... )

   Continuing the Emosnail Prehistory series...

I spent what would have been my sophomore year of high school in Sweden -- summer 1998 to summer 1999. I stayed with the family of Tony Bjuhr, the Swedish exchange student who had stayed with my family for the previous year. They lived in Kristinehamn, a small town of 25,000 on the northeastern ( Read more... )

   Continuing the Emosnail Prehistory series...

I had been in the United States for about a month when we got a Swedish exchange student in the summer of 1997 (Tony). I'd be in the United States for 13 months before I'd leave again to spend a year in Sweden. But first, I'd have freshman year (9th grade) at Mission Viejo HS ( Read more... )

   Today I went shopping for some nice semi-formal clothes with my mother. This was partly because my cousin Chelsea is marrying "the partner" in a month or two, but also because with all the things I do that require professional dress, all I have to work with are dress shirts, ties, worn out black dickies and polished docs (Which have a hole in ( Read more... )

   We all know that livejournal is positively rife with "memes." I'm not sure any of us know how to pronounce that however. Nor do very many people probably know that the term "meme" was coined in 1976 by professor Richard Dawkins. I certainly didn't know that when I met Professor Dawkins last April. If I'd known that he was the inventor of the ( Read more... )