the couch kills the afternoon without a trial

confessions of a pink eye

2006-12-04T14:59:00.000-08:00

its been exactly 45 days since i last posted:
so here are 4.5 random things you didnt know happened to me in the last two and a bit months....
1. I fell in love with Regina Spektor. For real, this lady is bottled Russian genius. I shall post one of her vids here. (Yup. vids.)
2. I turned vegetarian. Hello alfalfa sprout goodness. Talk to me about this...im still hashing out the reasons for this decision to stop eating meat.
3. I became a member at freedomize toronto. And im really excited to belong somewhere again.
4. I woke up the other morning and couldnt open my eye...due to pink eye infestation. mmmmm...pusssssss. I would like to extend my thanks to whatever child gave me this lovely bacterial infection...Johnny, Adija, Sierra...my thanks.
4.5. Is dating "personalized prostitution"?...thoughts?...i read it on a wall at york and thought it was clever...but i dont know if i agree.
Currently Feeling: satirical. hungry.
Currently Listening: Pedro the Lion.
Current Feeling in Limbs: Foot asleep.
Currently Need/Want: a jello shooter.
thanks for your time
*jenna

i want to smooch your brain on the hills of spain...

2006-10-20T18:05:00.000-07:00

so a few things to update on/bring awareness....
1. Im participating in whats called the "Gulu Walk" tomorrow....
its a 12k walk that happens in over 80 cities...mainly to raise awareness about the 20 year-long war thats currently happening in Uganda. The idea is that one will be able to experience/walk what thousands of children have to walk evey night to ensure that they dont get kidnapped from their villages in the night (some taken for soldiers and sex-slaves for the LRArmy ....) for more info....www.guluwalk.com....
(thats right...im too lazy to do a link)...
SO ..FRIENDS! read up on it! pray for me that ill experience something that will move me (oh ahahaha...what a great pun)...and if you wish to donate...i know its a little late...but you can still donate!!! (go to the site)

Im also doing a big-bum essay on the effects of HIV/AIDS on development in Uganda....whats up with the Uganda themes lately?

Today I went to a seminar on post-colonial racism and knowledge paradigms amoung indiginous cultures in Guyana. AND HOLY SHIZA....IT WAS LIKE all of York's genius (genei?) gathered to philosophize using the most ellaborate discourse/vocabulary available...i felt quite insignificant...however...IT ALSO MADE ME WANT TO FEED MY BRAIN with as much information as possible...dedicate my life to the pursuit of THE truth....and truth outside of a western way of gaining knowledge....

well. just had to get that off my chest.

does anyone else want an enormous brain...or am i just a NERD. ?

there is more...but i need to be more productive on a friday night...wow..im such a party ANIMAL! oh....tear...
much love to you all

ulcers, crab legs, and peeing richards

2006-10-12T13:42:00.000-07:00

why? you might ask does she write such ridiculousness for a title>? well...currently my life IS ridiculousness. and usually i just want to ride in a ferris wheel all day and forget about the pressures of fourth year universiy...but ive made peace with myself to try and avoid ulcers via stress....and eat more...resulting in more fat(chick) and a generally happier jenna. so...in light of this...i would just like to brag that we had crab legs
for thanksgiving dinner...oh what a 'cracking' good time it was....let the fatness roll!
in other news....i recently got a job at a daycare centre/kindergarten class....and i worked my first day there on this very morning...
and can i say that it was a THRILL of a time.
everything went lovely until they asked my to change the diapers of 5 children!...not one at a time i might add....but 5 cute little immigrant children all at the same time. let me tell you that i havent changed a diaper in quite some time....
so needless to say..the whole situation represented some comic scene from an 'i love lucy' episode.....jenna has absolutely NO idea where to start...so she puts little richy on the john. not knowing that he doesnt yet know how to aim....jenna instructs...'little darling....PEE!"...resulting in a soaked pair of pants..and a soaked floor. and 4 children lined up against the wall staring at their incompetant diaper changer. thank the lord that the rest of the day was WONDERFUL. and im sooooo grateful for this job. even though police checks and medicals are starting to act like thumb screws on my very soul.
pray that feminist courses dont completely overwhelm my brain with post-modern though...engendering certain brain cell doom.
i hope you are all in good company.
much love!

Philosophizers of the stall

2006-09-27T19:53:00.000-07:00

Quotes recorded from a Guatemalan bathroom stall (mens i might add)....

"Life has no purpose, no definitive apriori set of characteristics. To avoid or aleviate the ugre to off one's self, one must continually strive to define one's self; which is alltogether illusionary until on e is dead and then remembered by those individuals that know them. But non of us are philosophers."

"You're both right and wrong. There is no action but selfish action, regardless of how selfless you may lie to yourself it is and no matter how difficult or how many 'self sacrifices' you have to make. Be the Quaker the 'people of the cloth', volunteers, vacationers, labour organizers, and wall street sharks, everyone is in pursuit of self satisfaction (even poor spellers)."

"I do no agree, happiness is to be pursued at all costs..."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy, its to be honorable, honest, useful...to have it make sense."

"You have no choice. Even chosing not to choose is a choice."

"Geez, when are the dick jokes coming?"

So now that you know I'm a creepy-stall-comment-copier, you may now go ahead and ponder over the fruits of my labour.
Hello blogger by the way!