April 7th, 2011
What started as a relatively average day ended in a relatively entertaining night. The day started with me waking up and going to the Sustainability Resource Center to learn how to use HootSuite. Mandy wasn’t there, but Kirsten taught me how to do it, as I got on my merry little way to class in Center. Afterwards, I ate at Pines which unfortunately did not have any stir fry, and then went to work where I ran into John Cuellar. I went to class where I talked to Amanda for a bit, before taking the second of 18 absolutely annoying quizzes. Afterwards, I went to Foodworx to eat dinner with Geetha before going to my final class of the day. Average day commences.
By nighttime, I headed over to Warren SAC to meet up with Julia, Amul, Alex, and Lauren as we continued writing “Rezzies” for PAW. I wrote one for Tyler and will probably end up writing more tomorrow if I end up finding the time. We ending up talking more than we did actual work. Afterwards I went with Lauren to Earl’s, went to her place to talk for a bit, before ultimately shuttling to the Village for their Casino Night Event with Geetha, snapping a picture while there. No gambling was actually done for us though cause we came late and it was crowded, so it was more of a CasiNO than a CasiYES. While there, we would run into Mimi, Nicole, Aleks Levin, and Rashika. Thanks to our hard work, we were able to help jeopardize the event (in a fun way of course), and also had a shotgun mock wedding together. I saw Parminder and a few of his friends as they campaigned their hearts away for A.S. It’s going to be definitely interesting to see election results for tomorrow! Afterwards me and Geetha headed back to Warren as we ended the night talking about ICRA-related thoughts with Amul.
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| On April 7th, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins the Cold War phrase when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a “domino” effect in Southeast Asia. The so-called “domino theory” dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade. Damn Commies =/ |
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| Uncomfortably close to a deadline, President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders have only hours to avert a Friday midnight government shutdown that all sides say would inconvenience millions of people and damage a still fragile economy. Obama said he still hoped to announce an agreement on Friday but did not have “wild optimism.” In revealing nothing about what still divides them, Obama and the lawmakers, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., all said another late night of talks in the Oval Office had narrowed their differences over cutting federal spending and other matters. But Obama said ominously that the machinery of a shutdown was already in motion. “I expect an answer in the morning,” Obama told reporters Thursday evening as representatives from the White House and Capitol Hill plunged ahead with negotiations into the night. The aides were trying to cobble together a deal on how much federal spending to slash, where to cut it and what caveats to attach as part of a bill to fund the government through Sept. 30. A temporary federal spending measure expires at midnight Friday. OHMAGAH, what’s going to happen?! |
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