February 20th, 2011
Contrary to what my picture of the day might suggest, I actually hung out with 7 girls and only 1 guy today. I’ll explain all this in detail later.
In the morning/afternoon at around 1:45 Alethia picked me up. While in the car I met 1/2 of a self of twins (Hannah) and while at Alethia’s place I would meet the second set (whose name I just now happened to forget)…. I also met Gwen, and all five of us subsequently watched the first three episodes of Glee together before I was ready to leave. I helped Alethia on her practicing of being a campus tour guy by asking her ridiculous questions such as “Why is this campus socially dead?”, “Where can I get lots of alcohol?”, “How’s the spirit at this school?”, and “I heard this school was racist. Is that true?”. She finally would drop me back on campus, where I would be subsequently be picked up by Alex for dinner.
Alex, Rosario, Wanting, and Matt Diamond (the 1 guy), and I would all go to dinner at a location called Five Guys. It’s basically a burger joint much like In & Out, which is slightly more expensive, but also tastes slightly better to compensate for it. Another plus is that they have peanuts, although I’m not too big a fan of nuts in my mouth. Unfortunately, by this point my headache started coming back but I didn’t want to be a buzzkill so I stayed strong. It was nice seeing Wanting again, cause I haven’t seen her all quarter. Immediately after eating, we all went to some mall near Fashion Valley with an AMC in it to watch the movie “True Grit.”. It was really good, but I’m surprised the main female character only got nominated for supporting actress…. she was not supporting, she was the main character for goodness sakes. After, we all went to Ralph’s to buy some neopolitan ice cream (which we all accidentally called cosmopolitan a few times). We went back to Alex’s place to eat it, watched the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (my second viewing, but it was still extremely punny), and then all decided to call it a night. Me and Rosario would go to Earl’s, she would give me some Tylenol for my headache, and I would end the night heavily drugged.
| Facebook is recognizing civil unions and domestic partnerships as relationship statuses for the social network’s members, a move hailed by gay and lesbian advocacy groups as a strong statement of support for same-sex couples. The social media juggernaut added “in a civil union” and “in a domestic partnership” to the list of available status options for members in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Australia. Very interesting! |  |
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On February 20th, 2007, An American appeals court has upheld an anti-terrorism provision that states that the Guantánamo Bay inmates will not be able to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts. The provision is a key element in a law for prosecuting the terror suspects that President Bush passed through Congress in 2006. The appeal court has said that civilian courts cannot determine whether detainees are being held illegally. The ruling is likely to go to the Supreme Court, which had thrown out the government’s original plans for trying detainees before military commissions. The Court of Appeals upheld an act of the 109th Congress to remove the right of Guantánamo Bay detainees to challenge their detention in lower federal courts. The Military Commissions Act suspends the right to habeas corpus and bars anyone deemed an ‘enemy combatant’ access to the federal courts. Not really the best thing ot happen to our civil liberties. |
P.S.: “Have you ever felt like you were a little bit different? Like you had something unique to offer the world, if you could just get people to see it. Then you know exactly how it felt to be me.” – Flint Lockwood.
