http://www.jennifner.com This Is Gonna Be Awesome... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:16:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is kind of like donating your body to science, but while you're still alive. This gives you the lucky bonus of being self-aware enough to recognize that those working on you are just as clueless as you are as to the cause of your illness. I guess it's kind ... http://www.jennifner.com/2008/08/29/apparently-ive-volunteered-for-an-unpaid-medical-research-study/ It was never intentional to take this long of a break. It just sort of happened. I didn't really notice it until a friend of mine mentioned he still missed my blog. And I'm thinking, "Oh yeah, I used to write a blog instead of just reading other people's." And ... http://www.jennifner.com/2008/08/08/after-a-long-hiatus/ If someone you were interested in said this to you, what would you think? It's true, though. I really am baking cookies for a funeral home! I was being honest! How do you convince someone of this? http://www.jennifner.com/2007/11/30/wow-you-know-id-really-love-to-go-out-with-you-but-im-baking-cookies-for-a-funeral-home-that-night/ We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a special report. Dumbledore's gay. There, I've said it. Is your world radically different than it was a minute ago? Neither is mine. Before discussing the matter further, here are some quick answers to most of the questions I've received throughout this week. My basic ... http://www.jennifner.com/2007/10/29/thats-it-ive-had-enough-im-done-this-is-my-last-word/ Argh! Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Drink up, me hearties, yo ho! But that's not even the best part! While I was looking for background on how exactly this blessed holiday began, I stumbled across something even more enjoyable: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (Yes, you ... http://www.jennifner.com/2007/09/19/ahoy-me-mateys-we-simply-be-misunderstood/ (Full disclosure: So I'm a BYU alum and have technically never played a drinking game. Nor do I seriously condone them. But did you see BYU vs. Tulsa game tonight?!! Drinking away the shame seems like a perfectly reasonable response.) So, without any further ado, I present to you the BYU ... http://www.jennifner.com/2007/09/16/byu-football-drinking-game/ The genocide in Darfur. The Crandall Canyon mine disaster. Read the news for three minutes, and it’s hard not to become overwhelmed by the human suffering. Especially when you realize that so many millions of lives are so intimately and infinitely effected by the things that so many of us ... http://www.jennifner.com/2007/09/03/im-not-standing-on-a-soapbox-im-holding-up-a-bucket/ My new favorite person is whoever invented bedtime. I think maybe that was God. Or my mom. But, hey, whoever it was, they got it right. http://www.jennifner.com/2007/08/14/favorites/ Note: I have every intention of posting my thoughts on my recent trip to London. I really do. It's just that every time I think of London right now, I feel forlorn and homesick (even though it's not my real home) and it makes it extremely hard to concentrate on ... http://www.jennifner.com/2007/08/03/alphabet-soup-or-why-i-wouldnt-really-want-to-live-in-the-1800s/ So I just picked up my copy of Harry Potter 7 from the Waterstones at Picadilly Circus. (Can I just tell you I love the fact that I got the book seven hours before everyone else in the states??) It was the official release party in England. After six hours ... http://www.jennifner.com/2007/07/21/the-beginning-of-the-end/