1. Actor Danny Glover will be the commencement speaker for seniors next month in Berkeley. I wasn't really too impressed with their choice. I found an article on the Cal website about their choice. I liked how they rationalized Glover as their man:

"Chang said a variety of other candidates were considered including U2’s Bono, Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters, Bill Cosby, Ellen DeGeneres, Anderson Cooper, Magic Johnson, Tom Hanks, Jon Stewart and Kristi Yamaguchi. While a number of other schools around the country lined up speakers from the political or business world, Chang said UC Berkeley approaches the task of recruiting a speaker differently because it does not compensate the speaker financially or otherwise. “A lot of the private schools will pay their speakers with monetary means or grant them honorary degrees, but Berkeley’s view on this is that these speakers should be willing to come and speak without any reward,” Chang said."

I thought that was just a very long way to say that Berkeley is cheap. I think Danny Glover is a good actor, but there's a huge gap between Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey. Maybe if he brought Mel Gibson along, it will be worth the $2 admission, but I think I'm going to skip it.

2. I'm getting fed up with eBay. On Monday, my auction ended for $90, and I was very thrilled, but the winner had 0 feedback. The next day, he was no longer a registered user, so I lose out on my $90 and get charged eBay listing fees too. Now I have to repost my baseball card, which will likely go for less now because a similar one just ended tonight for $40 and was bought by the second highest bidder in my auction. Then today, I check my feedback and I got my first ever Neutral by some lady who said I took too long to ship her item. Do these people expect me to transport everything instantaneously? Do I look like Chief O'Brien? Bastards.

3. My apartment neighbor is crazy, and I literally mean crazy. My roommate told me some cops were at his door yesterday with two women who accused him of leaving death threats on their answering machines. The cops could not do anything because they did not have a search warrant. Last month, two guys came knocking at his door at 2AM demanding their money, and they were yelling until 3AM. My roommates think that he steals bikes and sells them. There was a note on his door that read something like "$100. No questions asked." And every once in awhile, the smell of weed will trickle into our apartment. It's like I live next to Shawn Kemp or something. Make that Shawn Hemp.

4. Some black guy stopped me in the street today while I was walking home. It was scary because he told me to stop and wouldn't let me walk around him. Then he pointed at me and said "Let me ask you something." A million things were running through my head: what should I do if he tries to take my salad and cornbread? what if he points a weapon at me, is it worth handing over my dinner? what would Jesus do in this situation? The guy ended up asking me if I had a quarter. I just said no and walked away, and then he nodded and touched my arm. Weirdo.

5. Today in my enviromental economics class, the professor agreed he would push the final earlier to accomdate the seniors because our final exam is scheduled the day after graduation, and most of us don't want to come back to take a final or study the night of graduation. He gave us two options: take a two hour final on the last day of class and it will be an easy open note final. Or we can have a hard take home final. There's this girl in the front row lobbying for the tough take home final. The professor did not like the idea of a take home final much because students can work together, so the girl said if students have similar answers, the professor should fail us. She also argued that a two hour final is not long enough because it wouldn't give her enough time to demonstrate all the material she has learned. Wow, talk about a way to not be popular in class. I'm surprised people didn't throw stuff at her. She even has convinced the professor to let her play a song of her choice an hour into class to give us a 3 minute break. Today, she played The Sign on the classroom audio system. A few weeks ago, she played some trance song. Everyone knows how I feel about trance music. Words cannot express my frustration towards this girl.

6. Our Badminton Tournament started today. The teacher will asign us random partners each time to make it fair. My partner and I started off winning our two games. I hope there are "Serious Prizes" at the end. In fact, my partner was so impressed with me she asked if I had played before, and I told her I only played a few weeks in high school. That's the truth, but I left out the part that I model my badminton game after Alex.