Randy Barnes joins the blog fray!

Just in time, too.... I think we're going to see a whittling down of blogs over the summer. I'm going to be here though, living it up in Berkeley this summer. I'll keep posting as long as interesting (to me) things keep happening.

Two papers down with one more to go,
Then I'm away to S-L-O.

The next round of Celebrity Bobxing, May 29th:

Manute Bol vs. William "Refrigerator" Perry
John Wayne Bobbitt vs. Joey Buttafuoco

My money's on Perry and Buttafuoco.

Night.

A recent AIM conversation with my friend Andy (Paradox133).

Paradox133: I made Nikki(?) (tall asian) a drink using blackberry schnapps and triple-seq. tasty.
EpikDave: ah, that was you who rearranged my liquor cabinet!
Paradox133: I think kevin got there first, but I did move some things for access reasons.
EpikDave: you disrupted my alcoholic feng shui.
Paradox133: perhaps that's why I've had such a bad hangover today. Karma man, Karma.

Here's a sad and interesting article from Australia about the dangers of infants and rice milk.

I don't think that the parents will be convicted of negligence, but it still is a warning to overly-zealous adherents to vegetarianism and alternative medicine that sometimes it's good to remain traditional in some respects. The speed with which the baby's health detoriated is remarkable and shows how tenuous life can be for a newborn child.

Here's a question for you, oh loyal readers.

What's the point of studying for something that you will fail?

I don't ask for my own personal reasons, Rhetoric majors don't take tests, we write miles and miles of papers. But if you spent hours and hours studying for a test, but failed, wouldn't it just have been better to have gotten hammered or gone out to meet and get to know new people during those hours?

I think I'd be really really depressed. I'd just plead that you keep priorities in mind as we embark on this final leg of the semester, ladies and gentlemen.

Thanks for the (more or less) kind words from Political Cullitonholic. I agree with you wholeheartedly about Negativity. I'm glad it's out there, but the writing needs to get stepped up a bit. We'll see how it goes. I'm particularly annoyed with the anonymous articles, that just looks bad.

Oh, and just so there's no confusion, that's NOT me in the pictures that accompany my article in Negativity.

Happy Mother's Day.

Also, happy end of the weekend, which was probably the last chance for any of you guys to go out and get drunk before buckling down on finals.

The college schedule is not one that is conducive to the development of the well-rounded individual. So be it, I suppose. At least some of us will have a summer off coming up to relax, make some money, and hit the beach.

The move to year-round college just to graduate in four years is a most unsettling one. I may be crazy, but it would seem that it should be no problem to put together your degree in four years (assuming you don't start switching majors your junior year or something like that). But somehow it's not. Even people who stay with the same major from day one can't get out of here in four. If all goes well I should be able to get out of here in 4 years with no summer school, but only because nobody seems to want to enroll in the classes I do, whatever that means.

Something needs to be fixed. I'll tell you when I find out what that is.