Opinion

When I wrote a column two weeks ago on alternative means of procuring textbooks, I didn’t think much about the now obvious message – that it’s OK to pirate your textbooks.

The older I get, the deeper into the wonderful world of permits and fees I travel.

When’s the last time you called your parents? Last week? Last month? Never, because they’re not even in your contact list? Tsk tsk.

While watching the Golden Globes on Sunday, aside from critiquing some “interesting” clothing choices, I was cheering for one movie in particular: The King’s Speech.

Winter fashion. To those residing in middle America and the East Coast, this means nothing short of a below the knee winter coat, insulated gloves and a scarf wrapped in mummifying loops up to the ears.

I love crepes, and I love making them at home because they’re much smaller than when you get them at a restaurant. And when they’re smaller you can try a greater variety of fillings.

I hereby give you permission to enter my memory lane. Admittedly, it’s more of an alley (I don’t remember much). Welcome to my third grade classroom, equipped with 35 “I still think my teachers sleep at school” students. My teacher welcomed us into the classroom one day with a challenge. The task: name all seven continents. The reward: center of attention for the next 10 minutes.

Last week I was pretty pissed off.

Pending the regents’ approval of a recent ASUCD mandate, select UC Davis students would be granted the privilege of scheduling private meetings with any of the 26 members on the UC Board of Regents – what ASUCD is referring to as white lining privileges.

Perhaps, if Martin Luther King Jr. were to write a letter on the holiday set aside for him, it might go something like this, albeit more eloquent:

The city of Davis needs to chill out.

Thirty-six UC executives think the university owes them money. A lot of it – $51.5 million, to be exact.