animal symbolism

Dear Readers,

I just had an interesting thought. I have just moved my chinchilla, Nibbler, into the room of my new apartment which I share with my boyfriend, who hates the chinchilla. My roommates also hate the chinchilla and the roommates own a cat who would like to eat him. It has proven to be an interesting, and by interesting I mean exhausting, circumstance. I digress.

My interesting thought was the idea of introducing my young snake, Zero who also resides in my bedroom, to the chinchilla to get him accustomed to rodents too large for him to eat. This is something I would never attempt with my adult snake, who as most of you know is unnaturally large for his species. This makes me think of why I would never attempt such a thing. It's not because he is so large or so powerful or really so threatening that to attempt it would bring certain death of the chinchilla. No, the chinchilla would probably cause more damage to the snake because he has never hunted anything alive in his life nor would a corn snake even attempt to take down anything larger than a young rat in the wild. What I think it comes down to is the image of a snake that has been ingrained into our subconsciousness.

In paganism a snake represents power and wisdom. There are very few animals that I won't handle when they are agitated. The only two that come to mind are snakes and horses. The only logic I can come up with is that horses can break your legs if they kick you correctly. So that leaves no real reason why a snake has earned such respect. Also, if asked which animal I thought was more intelligent I would probably say Jack and Zero over Nibbler, which makes very little sense, Nibbler knows his name, some basic commands and he can recognize a variety of different people and acts accordingly around them. The snakes only understand the basic rituals of feeding time and the reaction to a human hand entering their tanks. Even with Jack, who has had six years of conditioning, there is still some discrepancy to these conditions.

Biologically it has been proven that social animals such as dogs, chinchillas, humans (duh) have far more developed brains than solitary animals like snakes and cats and...uh...coke heads. So I guess my thesis to this long winded come back post is that social stigmas run deep.

Thank you ladies and more like gentlemen because I do believe that my dear James may be the only one who reads this.

Yours,
Jen

PS
I've been meaning to restart this blog for a few weeks. When I get around to it I have a delightfully cynical post about one of my last commutes to Humber College via GO train.
PPS
I'm planning to drop out. That would make for a pitiful angst ridden post worthy of high school. You will read no more about that tidbit of information.

Long time no post

Hello yet again dear internet,

Much has happened and unhappened since we last met.But one thing remains the same, my aspirations to lead a life worth blogging. I'll leave it at " Hi, I'm back" for now with the promise of posts in the future

Why Lack of School and Too Much TV Don't Mix

So I was watching the news today ( I have time for that now!) and I had a " No shit!" moment. As most of you know the pope is in Palestine. He's basically telling the Israelis to back off. What I'm getting from the opinions of the west is they're kinda like " well if the pope says so he's probably got a good reason". This is where I feel pretty lucky I escaped the whole Catholicism thing. What people seem to have forgotten is that this guy was a hilter baby. He's probably in that group of ex Nazis that pretend the whole holocaust thing that never happened and the rest of the world came up with the nasty rumour because they were jealous that the Germans invented the Volkswagen and they didn't. Following that train of logic ( Bear with me on this one) Pope Benedict probably just thinks the Jews are batshit insane with crazy imaginations so he sides with the Palastinians. Now when it comes to the Abrahamic religions I stay out of it generally speaking because it's all the same shit. So I really don't have an opinion on the Israel/ Palastine thing. I love my Jews and make jokes at their expense but that's about as in to it as I go. So my comment on this is to just remind everyone that Benedict was being groomed for SS so maybe he shouldn't be influencing anyone's decision on the matter. Go ask the Dalai Lama what he thinks, he's cool, he swears.

Dog, Plant, Blender

How do those relate? Those are my incentives to come back to my parents place. I'm so upset about having to move. I don't think anyone can fully comprehend how much I love Toronto and how much it's killing me to leave. Everything is down here. My career, my culture, my god damned blue banana..., my friends. Back home I'm the weird one because I'm one of those "Artsy Folk". Yesterday I got bored so I wandered around Kensington Market and went out for dinner in Little portugal and I was half tempted to find some new fabrics down in the Fashion District. To re-enact that in hicvkille I would have to bum around the upper canada mall, eat at some dirty mom and pop bakery in bradford and drive to walmart so i can hit the craft section. Where is the poetry in that?! ...And there are large carnivorous dogs in the walking trails...

But anyway my family is there, my dog is there and when I find an appartment I'm getting a fish and keeping him in a specially rigged blender and his name will be francois the angry german.

In response to the flu outbreak... oh and school.

So that swine flu... some scary shit eh? It's actually a strain of Influenza A, H1N1 to be exact. If you do end up getting it you're going to camp out in the bathroom all day just like you have every other time you've come down with the flu. The people who are dying are the young and elderly. Same as every other flu outbreak. My mom's company is only preparing so they can add the strain to their bug collection and rape you lot out of money for a vaccine. It does not kill people with a healthy immune system. That rumor probably started up because the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 caused the sufferer's immune system to overcompensate resulting in your body kicking it's own ass. Even if this strain does that it's like taking antibiotics. That's more or less how they work btw. anyway. enough nerdiness for one post.

School is over. I still think I'm lying about that. I almost wish that was the case. Almost. Wasn't ripped a new one which sounds like no academic probation. I can honestly say this year has changed me at an alarming rate. I was an actor, a hick, and a going no where sissy before coming here. Humber Studio Theatre as broken me in a good way. I've grown to become a glorified construction worker with all of the bad manners that go along with that title. Nothing like hard hats and scarves. I still want to stick to rock shows and film, more rock though. I've been given the new option of becoming a lighting designer which was something I didn't think was possible even at the end of semester one. Now i'm starting to feel passionate about hitting buttons. That does include sound mixers shamefully. So instead of pulling the would be gut wrenching and very relfective bullshit that everyone is spewing on facebook I'm going to leave you with one thought. Jen Mclean: The Zombified Lighting Designer On Fire. I give you my career.