March Madness

I got home from school early today (because I skipped my last class... I wanted to start my essay that is due tomorrow... but I've been home for an hour and hmm, I still haven't started), and checked the phone, and guess who called? The Federal Government! Are they looking for me? Do they want to offer me a job? Do they want me to be the Prime Minister? All of these truly rational and fantastic thoughts have been racing through my head. Of course they are calling for me. They need me there! They want me to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs, I just know it! How exciting is this. So everyone, get your opinions in to me regarding your foreign affair policies, before I am sent away to live richly in Ottawa, and no longer associate with you lowly common folk. Did you know that Saskatchewan has the lowest percentage in all of Canada for people who have faith in their politicians? Thank you John Gormley for your interesting statistics. I can see why though. We have a wretched NDP governement with Mr. Ugly Calvert (I'm sorry but he really is ugly), that screws us all, plus Saskatchewan farmers get the double wammy screwed-overness by Ottawa. Anyway, I am not here to talk politics. I'm not really very good at it, so I usually just try to stay away from the topic altogether.

I handed in a TWENTY PAGE paper this morning. I admit this 20 pages includes a title page, endnotes and a 2 page bibliography, but still it is the single largest paper I have ever done on my own. I was up till 2:30 last night doing the stupid bibliography which took me 2 hours alone. I kind of forgot to write down the authors of the websites I had used, so I had to go back and double check them all. It was a little frustrating, but I do have to say I am glad we are past the highschool days, where the internet was to be used with "high discretion" because the content was so untrustworthy, to the days of "utilize the internet for all it's worth." Anyway I am always so proud of my work when I get it all printed out and stapled together... hopefully I'll still be proud when I get it back :) This is why I have not been blogging lately. I've used up all my writing energy on papers! In fact, I am about to start another one...12 pages...due tomorrow!

OH my well University is interesting. And extremely eye opening. I was just fuming in my Women and Gender Studies class today, as my lovely prof spent an hour and a half arguing that the Bible was entirely written soley for political purposes for the Israelites, as a code of law (indeed it was this) and not as Word of God. The Israelites made up the concept of a "Supreme God" in order to differentiate themselves from other groups who worhipped numerous gods, which in turn gave them special identity and strength. The Bible was developed only when the Israelite nation began to decline, written with the intention for the Israelites to go back to their former glory. Intermarriage with other groups was forbidden only because it thinned Israelite blood, and since pro-creation is the purpose of life, individuals had to marry and have children. This leads to her entire point: The Bible condemns homosexuality because it defeats the purpose of procreation, not because God (who by the way was socially constructed) considers the practice wicked. In other words, homosexuality is wicked in the eyes of Christians because it does not lead to procreation. And that's that. Which then in turns leads to the "Fundamentalist Christian Right" of George Bush. If you are in University, you probably hate George. That is as far as I can tell so far... I'm not getting into that right now... Anyway she then goes on to the New Testament, in which the Israelites who are now Christians consisder themselves morally superior to the Romans soley because of their "pure sexuality." The human body is dirty and disgusting (um hello, I don't think the Bible says that Professor Out-of-Context, take a Hermeneutics class with Mr. Glubish perhaps?), and the notion of the Spirit is all that matters. The Bible is constantly being reinterpretated to suit the political, social and economic needs of that generation of Christians. It has not been maintained in its orginal form. And finally that the Bible is all Christians need to argue for heterosexuality because they perceive it as the Word of God and that in itself does not call for any sort of rationality or logic. Who can argue against a person's faith? Ultimately, homosexuality is only perceived as unnatural and bad because we live in a "Christian valued" world, whether or not we consider ourselves Christians. Yeah, so that was how I spent my class today. I am considering writing my paper on this topic. However I think I will take the opposite stance as her. Oh I wish I was still in Bible College, everything was so much easier!!!

Again I say, university is very interesting. I have to say that campus ministries probably have one of the hardest jobs in all of the Christian ministry because it is a student body full of rational, logical and "answers only" people. We are constantly being told of the stupidity of Bush and his fundamental Christian values and how he is ruining the entire world. How the war on terroism is a religous war. Everything should be scientific and rational.

Well I've had enough of this.

My Dad is so funny. He decided to buy cookies on his last grocery trip. This on its own is not an unusual occasion. Even with the South Beach Diet a predominant force in our home, we still usually have cookies in the house. I guess this one particular day he was having trouble deciding exactly what kind of cookie he felt like bringing home. So he decided to play it safe... Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you President's Choice innovation for the times you just can't decide on the perfect cookie:

The All-in-One Chocolate Chip-Peanut-butter-Oatmeal Raisin-Coconut-Pecan Cookie!!!

No word of a lie folks, I am reading it straight from the package. So I tried one of these genious All-in-One cookies last night... tastes like a hard oatmeal cookie. Well thanks for trying Dad. We've only got two packages of them to get through! I guess he really had his hopes set high on them!

One last thing before I bid you adu. What is happening to our good Saskatchewan neighborly friendliness? This morning my car was stuck in the snowdrift, and as I tried for a good five minutes to get myself unstuck, I stared at my neighbor across the street who was completely ignoring me... he was shovelling his driveway. He had a SHOVEL! He was 10 feet away from me, with a shovel! And THEN he had the nerve to bring out his SNOWBLOWER! I could not believe he didn't help me, especially once the snowblower came out of the garage. He was blatenly ignoring my fricken stuckness. This I know because he kept glancing over and then pretending nothing was happening. Geez guy. Let us get back to our friendly Saskatchewan roots! (And to think I'm from BC!)