January 12, 2006
Catch Up
Things I have done :
Ate at that new Japanese place. It was alright. I was hoping it would be a good place to go for sashimi and so ordered some nigiri sake (salmon). It was alright, but bland. I guess the lesson here is to eat rolls in Davis, not fish.
Went with Jasmine to see John Edwards speak about poverty. I did not expect that he would have a southern accent. He spoke largely about poverty, the racial element of poverty, the social class stratification, the increasing difficulty of moving up in social class, inefficient medical insurance, and a few anecdotes about random stuff. Not too surprisingly, he avoided the topic of the Iraq war, even when it was brought up nearly point blank in a question after the talk. He was a good speaker altogether, and made several interesting and good points. I was glad I took the opportunity to see him speak. I'd say he did a pretty good job of not being too partisan in what he spoke about and how he spoke about it, but what do I know?
Went to a cocktail party with the strongest mixed drinks ever. I had maybe a cup of whatever foul mixed drink they had and was pretty buzzed a bit after. This resulted in me devouring a bazillion of these pesto croissant thingies one of the hostesses made as well as various other snacks such as bread, crackers, carrots and stuff. It was all fun and games until my buzz wore off. Then the drunk munchies disappeared and I felt sick from all the food I'd eaten. I then proceeded to get totally fucking sharked at scrabble by some Korean jerk. Final scores : 336 (diaspora? wtf. and two "bingo"s), 154, 128, or something like that. I hate losing.
Played "Shadow of the Colossus". This game is..., good. It's very reminiscent of "Ocarina of Time" in a lot of ways, except that Shadow is bigger, more hardcore (you get a sword, a bow, a horse, and powerful hands), and a billion times more depressing. In some sense, the main characters interaction with the world is limited to two kinds of actions : moving around, and killing things. There's not much to talk to (as far as I've seen), the only thing that moves that you can't kill is your horse, and most of the things you have to kill aren't even trying to kill you. All the same, the gameplay is great, the graphics and art are just superb, and the story makes you want to figure out what the hell is going on.
Over the break I managed to destroy my sleeping schedule something fierce. I fixed it the day before classes started, and then proceeded to fuck it up again not more than a few days later. As a result, I managed to sleep through my ONLY class on Monday, which was at noon.
That night, I made sure to get to bed at a reasonable hour so that I could get up in time for my 9am the next morning. My alarm actually died halfway through the night, but I still woke up about six minutes before it went off. I took the on-time bus to class, and got there about fifteen minutes before class even started. So people slowly showed up to class, and eventually all of us (all fourteen of us) were in the class, and he wasn't. And class had technically started about twenty minutes prior.
Someone then mentioned that previously, when this teacher taught some other class, he pulled the same crap one day because his son was running around with a Q-tip in his ear and fell or something and it, well, yeah. So we all left at thirty after figuring something similar had happened.
This would normally be nice, except that I had absolutely nothing to do until my next class. So.., a classmate and I wandered a bit looking for something to do. For lack of any better ideas, we figured bowling would be fun.., except that when we got there all the lanes were taken by a class. And the pool tables were out of commission due to the bookstore-registers-book-buying-thingers. And most of the games in the games area kinda suck. So we wandered some more and found an energy drink taste test experiment thing being held by the food health sciences something or another department. We figured we might as well, since we had nothing better to do. All there really is to say about is that I don't like most energy drinks, but apparently the one I like best is Full Throttle.
As for the teacher that didn't show, when I went to class on Thursday I walked in kinda late and saw we were taking a quiz, which kinda sucked. I also saw that the teach had many scabs on his face, a black eye, and some other random bruises. From what he remembered, he was biking, then he woke up in the hospital. According to a witness, he was biking, fell over, and fixed himself up good-like on the curb. Apparently the impact was so bad he was knocked out for about an hour and a half.
He was saying that it was particularly disturbing because no one had any idea why it happened. If he had say, hit a car, or a bump, or some such thing he would know what happened and how later to avoid it. Because they have no idea why he fell, he can't really do much to prevent it from happening again, which is a much worse situation to be in.
Went to kung fu for the first time in a long time today as well. I'm kinda out of practice, but it's nice doing physical stuff again.
As for tonight. Today has been an antsy sorta day, so we'll see how the night goes. Jon did suggest car bombs. But I do have class at noon tomorrow. Hrm.
The three-day weekend will be a nice time to relax. Schoolwork has indeed been kicking my ass already. No solid plans yet, but hopefully something fun comes along.
Ate at that new Japanese place. It was alright. I was hoping it would be a good place to go for sashimi and so ordered some nigiri sake (salmon). It was alright, but bland. I guess the lesson here is to eat rolls in Davis, not fish.
Went with Jasmine to see John Edwards speak about poverty. I did not expect that he would have a southern accent. He spoke largely about poverty, the racial element of poverty, the social class stratification, the increasing difficulty of moving up in social class, inefficient medical insurance, and a few anecdotes about random stuff. Not too surprisingly, he avoided the topic of the Iraq war, even when it was brought up nearly point blank in a question after the talk. He was a good speaker altogether, and made several interesting and good points. I was glad I took the opportunity to see him speak. I'd say he did a pretty good job of not being too partisan in what he spoke about and how he spoke about it, but what do I know?
Went to a cocktail party with the strongest mixed drinks ever. I had maybe a cup of whatever foul mixed drink they had and was pretty buzzed a bit after. This resulted in me devouring a bazillion of these pesto croissant thingies one of the hostesses made as well as various other snacks such as bread, crackers, carrots and stuff. It was all fun and games until my buzz wore off. Then the drunk munchies disappeared and I felt sick from all the food I'd eaten. I then proceeded to get totally fucking sharked at scrabble by some Korean jerk. Final scores : 336 (diaspora? wtf. and two "bingo"s), 154, 128, or something like that. I hate losing.
Played "Shadow of the Colossus". This game is..., good. It's very reminiscent of "Ocarina of Time" in a lot of ways, except that Shadow is bigger, more hardcore (you get a sword, a bow, a horse, and powerful hands), and a billion times more depressing. In some sense, the main characters interaction with the world is limited to two kinds of actions : moving around, and killing things. There's not much to talk to (as far as I've seen), the only thing that moves that you can't kill is your horse, and most of the things you have to kill aren't even trying to kill you. All the same, the gameplay is great, the graphics and art are just superb, and the story makes you want to figure out what the hell is going on.
Over the break I managed to destroy my sleeping schedule something fierce. I fixed it the day before classes started, and then proceeded to fuck it up again not more than a few days later. As a result, I managed to sleep through my ONLY class on Monday, which was at noon.
That night, I made sure to get to bed at a reasonable hour so that I could get up in time for my 9am the next morning. My alarm actually died halfway through the night, but I still woke up about six minutes before it went off. I took the on-time bus to class, and got there about fifteen minutes before class even started. So people slowly showed up to class, and eventually all of us (all fourteen of us) were in the class, and he wasn't. And class had technically started about twenty minutes prior.
Someone then mentioned that previously, when this teacher taught some other class, he pulled the same crap one day because his son was running around with a Q-tip in his ear and fell or something and it, well, yeah. So we all left at thirty after figuring something similar had happened.
This would normally be nice, except that I had absolutely nothing to do until my next class. So.., a classmate and I wandered a bit looking for something to do. For lack of any better ideas, we figured bowling would be fun.., except that when we got there all the lanes were taken by a class. And the pool tables were out of commission due to the bookstore-registers-book-buying-thingers. And most of the games in the games area kinda suck. So we wandered some more and found an energy drink taste test experiment thing being held by the food health sciences something or another department. We figured we might as well, since we had nothing better to do. All there really is to say about is that I don't like most energy drinks, but apparently the one I like best is Full Throttle.
As for the teacher that didn't show, when I went to class on Thursday I walked in kinda late and saw we were taking a quiz, which kinda sucked. I also saw that the teach had many scabs on his face, a black eye, and some other random bruises. From what he remembered, he was biking, then he woke up in the hospital. According to a witness, he was biking, fell over, and fixed himself up good-like on the curb. Apparently the impact was so bad he was knocked out for about an hour and a half.
He was saying that it was particularly disturbing because no one had any idea why it happened. If he had say, hit a car, or a bump, or some such thing he would know what happened and how later to avoid it. Because they have no idea why he fell, he can't really do much to prevent it from happening again, which is a much worse situation to be in.
Went to kung fu for the first time in a long time today as well. I'm kinda out of practice, but it's nice doing physical stuff again.
As for tonight. Today has been an antsy sorta day, so we'll see how the night goes. Jon did suggest car bombs. But I do have class at noon tomorrow. Hrm.
The three-day weekend will be a nice time to relax. Schoolwork has indeed been kicking my ass already. No solid plans yet, but hopefully something fun comes along.
# posted by Yann : 21:03
