Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
I’ve got a crush. I never rarely get crushes. I’ve never been one to lust over celebrities etc. But I have a crush on “Boston Rob” from Survivor. I can’t help it. I get little butterflies inside when I think about him. I’m so lame. Continue reading Crush
Green You are a very calm and contemplative person. Others are drawn to your peaceful, nurturing nature. Find out your color at Quiz Me! Continue reading I guess I’ve got the Zen afterall
Bahahahahaha go play this. Try to get to at least level 5 – it’s worth it! Continue reading a “Thrilling” waste of time
Disclaimer: Bitter singles are probably best directed to fuckoff now. Hope everyone had a happy Valentine’s day – whether you had a sweetheart to share it with or not. I know that any kind of good company and good will can make a day or night special 🙂 I had a really good Valentine’s day … Continue reading V-Day
I think people are out to try my patience today. I am normally the most cool, calm, collected person (at least at work – any indications alluding to the contrary from my Boyfriend don’t count) – but seriously people. Give it a rest already. I thought the sunshine was supposed to make people happier. Instead … Continue reading Trying
Wait, no. Make that Jen and the Amazing Technicolour Eyeball. Hmm.. still not right. The eye is not so much technicolour, as pink. That’s right. I have Pink Eye. Lovely. Could this day get any better? Come on Universe, throw something else at me. I’m still standing… Continue reading Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
.. is an angry and not at all happy bird. The fire alarms started going off in my building this morning at around 4:30. They went back and forth, between on and off about four times, until sometime around 7:30. Each time a firetruck would come screeching up, sirens wailing, firefighters would clamber out in … Continue reading The Early Bird…
Following the thread on protests over tuition hikes on Darren’s and Donna’s blogs, I thought I’d post my own response:
I think students are notorious for being entirely too idealistic, and caught up in fighting for the impossible, instead of focusing on creating the plausable. Having taken my undergraduate degree in a department that focuses strongly on ideology (Communication) at a University that is decidedly leftist (SFU), I was exposed to this attitude for many years. I didn’t agree with the attitude then, and I don’t agree with it now.
We live in a capitalist society. It takes money to pay for everything, including education. We are not, and never will be fully communist and/or socialist, and asking for our government to provide communist and/or socialist solutions for capitalist problems is an exercise in futility.
Instead, lets focus on some solutions that work *with* the current societal structure.
Continue reading “To be, or not to be… Free that is.”
Coolest thing I’ve seen all year. Go watch. http://mail.colocation.hinet.net/~happyman/funny/sand.wmv Continue reading Sand Art
Whenever I think I suck, someone please remind me how much I kick ass under pressure 🙂
We had a major crisis at work, and I managed to stay calm, cool, collected, and do my part to solve (or mediate solutions for) the problems that affected my personal area of responsibility.
What Famous Leader Are You? Continue reading I hope nobody expects me to go on a Hunger Strike
I’ve been wanting to post all day, but I can’t decide what to write. The strange and sudden appearance of the sun has whitewashed my brain. So I’ll just do this meme instead. Stolen from cdnGEEK.
1. Full Name: Jennifer Norma Antoinette (last name omitted)
2. Who were you named after: Jennifer after my Paternal Great Grandmother Winnifred (both are a derivative of the name Guenevere), Norma after my Paternal Grandmother, Antoinette after my Maternal Grandmother – all of the living linear female ancestors at the time of my birth.
3. Which finger is your favorite? My right pinky, because I can make it click funny.
Continue reading “Blank”
So I was walking home from the skytrain tonight at about 9pm. I left the house 12 hours ago to head for the bar to watch the Superbowl.
Amazing 4th quarter.
And it’s funny how sitting around and doing nothing for 12 hours can completely exhaust a person.
Anyway, back to my story.
So I’m walking down the street, fiddling with everything in my pocket (no gloves, hands were cold) which includes my pepper spray on my keychain. There were cops at the bank up the street, since the alarm had gone off there, and I was imagining how I would use the pepper spray and my eleet kung-fu skills to disarm the fugitive who would certainly immediately bust out of the bank, run down the street, then try to use me for a hostage (this is what I think about when I have no walkman to distract me).
Of course that didn’t happen, and I made it home without incident.
Until I walked into the bathroom….
Continue reading “Dumb and Dummerererer”
You have just won one million dollars: 1. Who do you call first? Brian, Family 2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? A really extravagant dinner, and a very expensive bottle of scotch. 3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else? I’d pay off my parents’ house, buy them, … Continue reading Friday Five
From sn0wangel, who took it from somewhere else.
The ones I’ve seen are in bold and I’ll warn you, I’m really bad at catching movies that I should make a point of watching):
1. Snatch
2. 25th Hour
3. Godfather I II III
4. Memento
5. Roxanne
6. Shallow Grave
7. Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Jackie Brown
9. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
10. Formula 51
Continue reading “Movie Meme”