Thoughts

I hope Erin doesn't mind that I snatched this picture and reposted it on my blog. Its just exactly how I imagine myself. . . braids, backward baseball cap and big backpack and boots. It took me a while to figure out where it was taken. . . it seemed to be too open to be Erin's landing and then I saw the intercom box and placed the wooden railings. This is the enterenceway to Frogmore Estates (the apartment building where I had been living for the last 4 years.) What threw me was that the walls are white - now they have this fancy green/blue paint.

Its been a good day, in spite of working most of the day. You'll note that they frequency and quality of this book are both likely to decrease now that I am working. My mom gave me this book that starts off with the line "Do princess's where hiking boots?". :D It was great. I won't spoil it, but I highly recomend it.

I have curtailled my newspaper reading. I'm surprised at my lack of desire to follow the terrorist arrests closely. Generally, I follow local stories closely. I think partly that it is my own mixed feelings about it. I certainly am not happy to hear that people born and raised here were turned against their own country, yet I have too many friends of Muslim background to want to join the feeding frenzy on yet more bad publicity for their community. What I have skimmed in the papers, shows that different writers have handled the story differently - but its not a straight forward issue (in contrast to the ecoli disaster in Kashechewan) so you are getting more variety of opinions. Some of the articles are well thought out, and some are a touch nasty and most are simply calculated to get the best readership and not especially brilliant journalism. I don't mind hearing updates on the case, but I'd like to see a bit more variety in the news. I'm glad the police were on the ball - kudos to them. But if you beat the issue long enough, its only going to show up the dirty underside of all of our hearts as we let 17 young men and youths represent the entire Canadian Muslim communtiy.

Gabe baked a wonderful cake, but we were too full to eat it tonight... but its cake for breakfast for sure!! I have lots of thoughts, but I can't seem to get them all down. It could be the lateness of the hour. Thanks to everyone for making today special. Life is a crazy place. I guess you can only live it as it comes. I'll think some more tomorrow.

Jenn 

Bleckflies!

Only picture of Jason in my repatoire to date. This was from our first French River trip when the black flies were unbarable.

Glasses were bigger back then! Having recently been diagnosed with an eye-turn (an overly active focusing tendency) and told to wear some weaker glasses when reading at the computer - I have had the joy of revisiting some of my own larger glasses. None of which are particularly flattering. However, I have noticed a difference in the ability of stay watching the computer screen. He he... but I'll be getting another pair of glasses eventually - so I won't have to look like an owl forever.

Lots of other thoughts I wish I had time to share, but my lunch hour is done and I'll have to get back to reading massive pdf files whole. I really wish that they would cease publishing pdf of papers with 2 or more columns - its next to impossible to read.

Anywho - later.

Jennith 

Oh World - you're too good for anyone to realize!

Here are pictures of the old, old days. . . Poor Suzanna had the honour of the most painful line in all of "Our Town" A painful play in its own way, but with lots of great memories - like James downing an entire flask of watery tea in front of a sold out audience. Regardless of fiddling with Picasa2 - I had no way of making this picture less freaky looking or getting the red out of their eyes. (Actually - It does look much better, but still freaky)

Cheers,

Jenn 

Everyone should climb trees

Aside from getting scratched and risking death, climbing trees is one of the best parts of childhood. Here is Vivek en arbre. 

A Tribute to Troll Earings

Ah - the good old days when matched sweatsuits were high fashion and head bands and big dangly plastic earings too!!! 

Ryan Lighting Guy

 

The Best of Engineering Pub Crawl T-Shirts

Here is Gabe and I at Canada's Wonderland. This was Gabe's first (and possibly last time going to wonderland). He was a good sport, letting me drag him on a bunch of rides, roller coasters and such.

I must say that I liked Top Gun the best (and I think that was Gabe's least favourite.) He did like the wild water canyon though. Even the weird 3 D Hanabarbara video was kind of cool.

Their prices have gone up insanely since I was a kid. You can't buy anything for a remotely reasonable price, and while we were a captive audience, you left feeling a bit ripped off.

Our T-Shirts resulted in numerous comments. For the record, they are engineering pub crawl t-shirts from UNB espouses our love for integration or the integral of e raised to the power of x, which happens to be e raised to the power of x for all of those of you who have let your calculus get rusty. I think9 or 10 people, mostly staff came and asked us about it.

In our defense, we got dressed and then much later decided to go after all. So we weren't planning to go before we wore the same t-shirt. I just grabbed the wrong sized one out of the cupboard and still had it in hand when I found my own and so I offered it to Gabe. It made the day and the picture memorable though.

Cheers,

Jenn 

Ranger Camp Pinata

 

Canada's Wonderland sometime before 1995

 

The Mysterious Groupies

Dramatic Fashion at the height of the early ninties. 

Backwards Baseball Hats and the Morning Parking Lot

Why our highschool buses insisted on getting us to school an hour early still mystifies me. (well it had everything to do with money, but in a way it was nice because it gave everyone a chance to hang out and do a bit of last minute homework.

One of the things I miss the most from the Woodlands is the chocolate chip muffins that you could buy hot in the morning from the back of the kitchen. Yum.

I love this warmth in this picture. Two of the nicest smiles in the whole pile. :D

Cheers,

Jennith 

Funny and Funny in Grade 9

Whew. . . At least I wasn't quite the geekiest kid in school (albeit that I did memorize the periodic tables up to 104 for a couple of bonus marks.)

I thought everyone would smile to see Gareth and Alex and remember their hijinx. I haven't heard much about them recently. Alex is a genius and Gareth I heard joined the army.

It's neat that so many people are reading my blog. I suppose I'd better start trying to use full sentences and proper spelling.

I cut out halfway through the last blog where I was just about to describe the different between perserverance and perseveration. I was interupted by the surprise arrival of my very own angel (aka gabriel) 2 days earlier than I'd expected. So, its not surprising that I didn't finish the blog. I was accused of perseveration because I want to replace my current glasses with an identical pair because I like them and I don't like the weird new ones that count as fashion these days. (my current ones are a simple pair of black wireframe glasses. Perseveration is: " The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus." dictionary.com... Sigh... now I guess I'll have to pick different glasses just to prove my mom wrong.

So now everything is much messier, but its nice having Gabe here. He was missed.

I'll keep the pictures coming.

Jennith 

Peace, Protractors and Perseveration

A tranquil morning on the Bruce Peninsula (1993), M looks over the lake on an early morning hike.

Other thoughts. . . I'm almost done sorting through my room, relocating things I don't need and repacking them. I even found the protractor I was looking for this morning on my desk under a stack of photos. (I suppose that none of you are suprised that I have photos everywhere still. Actually, I've packed most of the sorted photos back into a rubbermaid container. I just have a few stack on my desk that I'm steadily feeding through my scanner. At least I'm getting my money's worth out of it.

As for the perseveration (not to be confused with perservation) - I'll have to finish this later 

"This is me in Grade 9" BNL

My brother is a huge BNL fan... as were we back when Gorden wasn't even out. Probably one of the 2 best concerts I've ever been too (and both were at Kingswood - aka Canada's Wonderland) was the Barenaked Ladies in the pouring rain and Depeche Mode (it was like a huge sing-a-long).

So, this is me in grade 9. . . If I was a bit self crueler - I might include a shot of my self portrait which I painted from it. Actually the picture isn't that different expect we were suposed to do it in an unrealistic palate - so my eyes are red and my skin is yellow.

I really always hated these glasses. They never fit right and they never sat straight and they're huge!!!

Wow... do I look like a 90's geek with big plastic earings and bangs that I probably adjusted myself (I finally realized that I shoud stop trying to cut my own hair.)

The Orange shirt I'm wearing eventually became my tree planting shirt. It has faded to a pale orange and is stained and torn (I later retired it to my work shirt - so it has lots of paint and oil stains). I think I still have that Northern Reflections windbreaker somewhere too. I should take a look for it. Its a cool colour.

Cheers,

Jennith 

Outers Go to Tobermory

All the pictures from this trip turned out pretty nice. Georgian Bay is in the Background. We are on the Bruce Trail. Early 90's 

The Woodlands Parking Lot

Remember here? Maybe not if you didn't spend all your lunches here in the "Parking Lot".

Here is most of the JPC in their natural habitat. 

Spooky Stuff

Just playing with manual settings, cats and Picasa...

Jenn 

Chitaqua Girl

And the lights went out.... and the stage manager said the lights went out....

This play was proof that even if things look really shaky in the dress rehearsal - you can still pull it off on opening night.

I still wish that we'd done chaos and desire - risky as it was.

This would be highschool grade 11 Searsfest. I actually think the set is quite striking.

Anywho, a nother piece of Woodlands history - brought to you by the JPC

ttyl,

Jennith 

I think I'm a clone now!!

This actually isn't me as a child - its my mom! Scary stuff eh. I spent today going through boxes of stuff with my Grandma. We found lots of cool stuff including some great photos. There are a bunch more - like ones of yellowknife in the 1950's that I hope to get scanned eventually.

We figured out some reasonable bus routes to Humber as a side effect of wondering why GO transit had cut busses on the route that I took to get to my gramma's. So all in all its been a productive event. I myself still have lots of paper to go through and throw out still.

On Thursday, I went up to Guelph to tag along with my supervisor and one of her students on a tour de stormwater facilities in Guelph. I naturally forgot my camera and will have to go back and get some pictures next week for Dr. Wilson. Guelph has some really impressive stuff going on in that department, sadly most of their ponds are fenced, unlike the ones here that have been made into outdoor park areas. There is also a surprising number of forest trails there. I don't know what the snow is like, but the skiing looks promising trail-wise. I met another permastudent who also has a biology-engineering background. There are a few of us - Katy H. too.

So, tommorrow, I'll sleep in - I've been out of the house before 7 three of the last five days. Then, I'll just keep working through the list on my board. Window shop for glasses, cars and chest waders if I get to it. Well, the Corrolla is still in the lead. Thanks to all the people who've taken the time to comment. I really enjoy reading them and its nice knowing how many people read my blog.

Cheers,

Jennith 

Going Back To the Beginning

After seeing my gradeschool best friend for the first time in 8 years, I just had to post this picture of a slumber party at my house when I was 8 or 9. I'm the one in the green striped nightshirt, my cousin is beside me, I think the next girl's name is Melissa (but I don't know where I know her from) finally there is my friend and my baby brother (at the time) Apparently, my friend has pictures of us with licorish up our noses or some such tomfoolery.

Jenn 

Many Braids

Life is made up of many stands twisted together to make them stronger. Here is Erin back in the days when many braids were cool - well, her own unique style at any rate.

This photos is proof that you can do stuff with an SLR that you can't do with an digital camera. The picture was also taken on an Outers' trip to Tobamory.

Cheers,

Jenn 

Itches and Scratches

Here is one of the other Sears Fest Plays that took place in 1995 - Itches. I'm afraid someone else will have to identify everyone... I recognize Mike T., JP, Lisa C. and Jamie B and the other 2 I should know their names, but I can't think of them. 

Grade 10

Here are the guys in grade 9 (we were a year older) hanging out in the caf. Its funny, they look a bit different now, but its shocking how much they haven't changed a zillion years later.

This seems to be a theme for me this week. I guess scanning old photos will do this for you or running into old friends.

My best friend from grade school - who I first met in grade 2 when she sort of invited herself to my party. I'm not sure she actually came because I probably had a limit on the number of people could have, but she might have. I actually remember that party with Carrie and Penny and all of our cabbage patch kids and a couple of girls from the circle.

She's a mom now with an adorable 2 year old. (This being the girl that drove me crazy by teasing me about liking Eric Taylor) We had a really nice visit. My parents were glad to see her too.

Anywho, this is my post for tomorrow. I'll probably post again tomorrow night, but not during the day. The excitement for the next few weeks. . . glasses shopping.

Cheers,

Jennith

P.S. There is a guest book for Andrew Desmond in the star. A place where people can share their condolances or memories with the family.

P.P.S. For those of you (Geoff) who still haven't done my Johari window. The link is still there on the page. The Johari window for those who don't know what I'm talking about is this cool sort of personality quiz type thing where you have to pick 6 words off a list of about 60 to describe yourself, then other people can come to your site and pick six words from the same list that they think describe you. Its a neat excercise in understanding how you are precieved by others compared to how you precieve yourself. Generally, its a self esteem booster, since most of the choices are positive. 

Blind Revelations

The nostalgia continues. . .

Okay, here is the set of Blind Revelations circa April 1995. The silouette in the forground is our leader. She's one of those awesome crazy teachers who practically live at school doing extracuricular drama.

There are actually 3 locations visible. The actors are in the mad doctors study or some such place. I'm not sure where the kitchen (centre stage) was, but the fridge and shelves are full of cans that we labelled with generic "post apocalypse government" labels. The ingredients (which I believe I was entirely guilty for) contain things like eyes and frogs legs and rehydrogenated spamwhales or some such - not exactly appettizing stuff. That fridge was still in the lighting room 7 or 8 years later - heck it may still be there today. Memories of the lighting room... there is a sauce for the presidents choice folks. The last set - shaded in the darkness of a cross fade - is the isolation chamber/bedroom for the healthy post apopalyptic guinia pigs. Shamefully, I don't remember more of the story than that. Fun cast. Well written... oh and you have to be a bit careful of your speech in some lines though like "Mass starvation is killing us all" can sound an aweful lot like "Masturbation is killing us all" at least according to the judge.

Anywho,

I should get back to cleaning, cooking, reading and tidying.

Jennith 

Drama Awards 1994

Here is another amusing picture from highschool.

Points of note:

1. I still wonder what happened to the goldenrod shirt that Erin is wearing. I always kind of hoped to inherit it, but I supect it wouldn't fit.

2. I'm third from the left with glasses and blond wavy hair. Hee hee. Some things do change - my hair is straight and brown nowadays.

3. The gentleman in the red christmas hat was another friend of mine - I have no idea what happened to him. He wrote a crazy one act play that I never got to see, but I think he ended up doing something normal like computer programming.

Cheers,

Jennith