Day 282: Overcrowded Apartment

 

October 9th, 2011Amul picked me up from campus today as I got ready for a long day back at La Regencia. While there, the two of us talked to Tyler for a bit, while watching some wonderful Spongebob on Nickelodian. Alex Goetz came over and we caught up for a bit talking about “graduate school”, and then Jessica Daggit came over as we prepared to play a game of Scribblish. Unfortunately by that point Bee-John gave us a surprise call telling us we needed to pick him up. We cancelled our game plans and picked him up at the School of Medicine, ultimately debating on what to eat. Finally, Amul picked Croutons as Jessica called Adam to come join us. While everyone mostly got Croutons, Alex got some Pick up Stiks, while I, being the odd one out, got Chipotle. We all ate at the lunch table while debating some heated political topics from the dream act to U.S. foreign occupation in other countries. I think I ultimately won against Adam’s terrible Corporatist ideals. RON PAUL 2012!

We all came back to my apartment where we started playing a wonderful game of Catan. Alex ultimately won, while Adam was studying the entire time. For no particular reason at all, Adam invited Sid over just so he and Bee-John could meet so they could participate in future food challenges. STUPID! At some point during the day the apartment seemed to be super crowded as all my friends were there, Tyler was there, Lauren and Eric were there, as well as Manuel and three of his friends. We all left at approximately the same time, me saying farewell to Amul as he dropped me, Tyler, and Alex, at Alex’s place respectively. She drove us to Hopkins as I walked to Geisel for a small amount of time. Unfortunately, my book wasn’t even located in the library so I departed meeting up with Geetha at her apartment. I attended her Sunday Study Break event as I studied Vietnamese while eating some delicious Papa John’s pizza. Shortly thereafter, she would pick up several of her other birthday scavenger hunt gifts, including a cute frame pictured in today’s picture of the day. I ended the night busing back to my apartment, doing laundry, and watching the Season Finale of Breaking Bad. Talk about intense.

On this day in 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while battling his band of guerillas in Bolivia and assassinated him the following day. His hands were cut off as proof of death and his body was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1997, Guevara’s remains were found and sent back to Cuba, where they were reburied in a ceremony attended by President Fidel Castro and thousands of Cubans. Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna was born to a well-off family in Argentina in 1928. While studying medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, he took time off to travel around South America on a motorcycle; during this time, he witnessed the poverty and oppression of the lower classes. He received a medical degree in 1953 and continued his travels around Latin America, becoming involved with left-wing organizations. In the mid 1950s, Guevara met up with Fidel Castro and his group of exiled revolutionaries in Mexico. Guevara played a key role in Castro’s seizure of power from Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and later served as Castro’s right-hand man and minister of industry. Guevara strongly opposed U.S. domination in Latin America and advocated peasant-based revolutions to combat social injustice in Third World countries. Castro later described him as “an artist of revolutionary warfare.” LOLS, WHO CARES.

Ron Paul met the crowd at the Values Voter Summit in Washington on Saturday more than halfway. Speaking to a packed hotel ballroom filled with his admirers, the Republican presidential candidate laced his usual attacks on American fiscal and foreign policy with biblical allusions. He likened the sprawling federal government to the king sought by the Israelites in the book of Samuel. “We have too long relied upon our king in Washington and we have to change that,” Paul told the crowd, which was enthusiastic considering the early-morning hour. VERY TRUE.

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