tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61341384681023007032011-04-21T16:30:39.745-04:00Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04515644494377899185noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134138468102300703.post-56135920673244268992009-01-04T20:12:00.011-05:002009-01-04T22:07:31.116-05:00

I'm one of those people that makes a ridiculous amount of delicious food over the holidays. Aside from the previously mentioned apple butter, I also attempted fudge (which failed as fudge but succeeded as fudge sauce on ice cream) and caramels (which just failed), and made three different kinds of truffles. Considering that the truffles were the only ones that succeeded, really, here they

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This was a two-day affair. A delicious, aromatic, two-day affair that had my housemates and I drooling every time we went into the kitchen. Apple butter. Oh man. It is fantastically simple to make, especially if you have a crock pot. I used this recipe and intend to give out small jars of the stuff as Christmas gifts. I started Thursday morning peeling apples. I forgot to take a picture of the

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I am a bad, bad food blogger. Since I posted about that delicious roasted acorn squash I have made - and forgotten to photograph - cheesecake brownies, a few loaves of bread, and carrot muffins. For shame, as all were delicious.Anyway, I did remember to take pictures of the piparkoogid that I made. This recipe for Estonian gingersnaps was in the Toronto Star last week and looked mighty tasty. 

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Behold! Acorn squash. This showed up in the Good Food Box like a month ago and I'm only now getting around to using it. That's the great thing about winter squash - stored properly, they will keep up to six months. Hence their popularity once it gets cold. Two weeks after the acorn squash showed up we got a butternut squash and made soup out of that. The poor acorn squash sat green and lonely (

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So there's part of me that really wants to blog more, but these days I do not have the energy or interest to blog about politics (especially SCSU politics, I'm not touching those with a ten foot pole), therefore, I am going to be blogging about the one thing that has been keeping me somewhat sane this semester: cooking.These days I have been swamped. It's my last year of university and I am

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This is cross-posted, with some edits, from my private journal, since I am not up to rewriting anything on it. It hurts too much.So it's a Saturday, the day after spring formal, which was awesome, and I slept until three, and spent the afternoon and evening messing around on Facebook instead of doing homework, as usual. I'm scrolling through my friends' status updates when I notice someone's. It

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So the blog is more or less dead but I thought I'd showcase some awesome stuff going on on res right now. For International Women's Day I shamelessly ganked an idea from Antigone Magazine and we did a postcard project, where people wrote their hopes and dreams for women in the future. The cards are now on display in the Residence Centre if you're local and can check them out. Feel free to

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The Toronto District School Board has brought up the idea of a black-focused school again. I can see both sides of the coin on this one. Which is why I thought of something completely different. A social justice high school. In the way some arts schools work, students could choose a 'major' or a track focusing on an issue or topic of interest to them. Race, ethnicity or culture could definitely

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I noticed a lot of people joining the Facebook group "tips for all women... please join... and pass on." I have some tips of my own for avoiding rape and assault. Top two places sexual assault occurs, YOU could be AT RISK, AVOID THESE TWO PLACES:1) Indoors2) OutdoorsOther tips for avoiding rape:- be male (most rape victims are female)- if you can't avoid being female, at least don't form a

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Things learned from SCSU board meetings, #2358:Don't actually do your job. If you do so, you may get censured. Failure to do your job will result in absolutely nothing of consequence (in a number of different ways).

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I haven't written in a while because I've been crazy busy and when I haven't been crazy busy, I've been exhausted. And now I'm back to school, which means things will be even crazier. Since I've been grumpy lately, here is something that made me very happy this morning:Students in Nova Scotia put on a mass wave of pink in order to stand up for a kid who was bullied for wearing a pink shirt.

Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04515644494377899185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134138468102300703.post-59578067632510424092007-06-20T20:09:00.000-04:002007-06-20T20:27:02.580-04:00

*Note - sexual assault triggersWell this is just plain ridiculous. A Nebraska judge bans the word "rape" from his courtroom, along with "sexual assault," "victim," "assailant" and "sexual assault kit."The result is that the defense and the prosecution are both left to use the same word—sex—to describe either forcible sexual assault, or benign consensual intercourse. As for the jurors, they'll

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I can't remember where I was directed to this from first, but who cares, it's awesome. A LiveJournal user very awesomely modified those ridiculous Special K ads. Check out the results!Some of you who know me know that I'm not too fond of bowing to bullshit beauty standards, hence I found this shaving historical timeline interesting. Do pay attention to the entry for World War One, and the fact

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Summer is upon us. I've left the SCSU (my term ended almost a month ago) and have drifted into the wonderful world of waiting tables, and when I'm not doing that, sitting on my ass. Those of you who remember the disaster that was my boyfriend attempting to get new identification, all is well and he has been in Canada since the start of May. Got here while I was away on a retreat and I had a

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Aw fuck, I've got 15 minutes left to get my Take Back The Blog post in. I'd been thinking about what to write all day, and realised that I didn't really have much more to say, other than to re-tell what I wrote for Blog Against Sexism Day:This summer, I was harassed because of decisions I made while serving on the student union. These decisions offended a small group of people (one person, really

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Yes, I'm alive. Things have just been crazy, but, today has been good. As I mentioned before, Andy has been in a right state over the past eight months without any ID, the past year without a steady job, and the past six months without a home of his own. Last weekend I went to visit him, we stayed in a hotel. This past week he's really been on the street, more or less (well, in a friend's

Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04515644494377899185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134138468102300703.post-13265356060116503552007-04-17T18:50:00.000-04:002007-04-18T12:50:34.935-04:00

The opening of this article is disgusting. Short of coming out and saying, "It was Emily's fault," this is blatant, awful victim blaming. Emily Hilscher was not responsible for the tragedy at Virginia Tech. Even if she was his ex-girlfriend, she was not responsible - the man who shot her was. He's the one who picked up the gun, he's the one who pulled the trigger. He was the one with such a sense

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June Callwood died yesterday. A real hero and an amazing woman. I really admired her.Toronto Star: one, two, three.How not to be an asshole: a guide for men by Chris Clarke over at Pandagon. Cue wild applause, alongside a sigh that probably the only reason some of the men this is directed at will take a hint is because it was written by a dude. What's with the sexualized threats against women? by

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To anyone who was at the Board meeting on Friday, I'm sorry for my outburst. I'm not sorry for the message I was trying to convey, but I know it was unprofessional of me to act the way I did. It was the result of a lot of frustration I've been feeling because of the way certain Directors have been acting, and I meant it when I said I couldn't believe I'd lasted this long with them. I'm not

Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04515644494377899185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134138468102300703.post-60638197890350574762007-04-13T14:21:00.000-04:002007-04-13T14:38:51.922-04:00

This is another long story, but I'll make it as short as possible, and that is mostly because I'm sick of typing it out over and over again.Some of you who know me personally may have already heard about my boyfriend, Andy Parker. Andy lives in Niagara Falls, New York, and in August 2006, his identification was stolen: his driver's license, his birth certificate, and his social security card. As

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I'm disgusted to hear about the recent article in the University of Western Ontario's student newspaper, the Gazette, that was part of their "spoof" issue for April Fool's day. Someone thought an article, entitled "Labia majora carnage," that took direct shots at members of a campus women's group, WIN, and alluded to rape (in the form of taking a WIN member into a dark alley to "teach her a

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I just read this post by Erin Millar over at the Macleans Education section about RSU President-elect Nora Loreto's little freak-out on Bob Rae in the middle of an interview being conducted by Eyeopener editor Robyn Doolittle. “She starts on about reducing tuition since it's expensive to live in Toronto,” Doolittle described in an email, “then goes off about the Millenium scholarship. Rae tries

Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04515644494377899185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134138468102300703.post-72213368569934790772007-03-29T13:57:00.000-04:002007-03-29T14:03:40.266-04:00

My friend Gillian has a letter in the Varsity today, about Friday's Board meeting. She tabled a motion of censure against the President, which the Board didn't even allow to be put on the agenda. Absolutely ridiculous. Read her letter. It's good. Another article in the Varsity about Scarborough getting shafted. Another friend, former SCSU VP Academics Jeff Rybak, has his book launch today at

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My friend Peggy is a journalism student at Sheridan College in Oakville. Recently, the Sheridan Student Union Inc. had their elections. Peggy told me something very curious about what happened when she went to vote:She was told to write her name on her ballot. Yes. Names. On ballots. What, followed by, the fuck, were they thinking?This led to an investigation into the elections that brings to

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At last night's Board meeting, the SCSU very unceremoniously got executives for next year. Here's how:At the beginning of the meeting, there was an item entitled "New Business - Issues Regarding Elections: Logistics and Rulings." During this item we were first directed to a section in the VP Human Resource's report where he discussed hiring for a new elections committee. On Monday the 19th the

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The first thing I wanted to see this morning was definitely NOT the dead model gallery (view at your own risk, may be triggering) from the latest episode of America's Next Top Model. Alas, they came up. I've never been a 'fashion' person. I've only ever watched this show when my housemates are watching it and I happen to be around. I don't see the appeal of watching stick-thin woman-shaped

Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04515644494377899185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134138468102300703.post-23400554635340882222007-03-21T20:01:00.000-04:002007-03-21T20:23:31.919-04:00

Hey everyone. I know I've been quiet for the past week or so. That's because there's this little thing called school in my life I've been attending to. Yeah. That thing. So today, a couple of links, before I dive into writing my research paper: Report from the CFS Task Force on the Needs of Muslim Students (PDF) - As much as I dislike the CFS, I was involved in this initiative in the summer and

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I had to scan this in two parts since it was on legal size paper. Here is the letter (with some of the signatures) and here are the names of the former execs endorsing the letter. Because some of the writing is illegible, and one name is cut off, I'll rewrite them here:Lendyl D'Souza, VP Human Resources 04-05, President 05-06Jeff Rybak, VP Academics 04-06Paul Hunter, VP Campus Life 04-05, VP

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The SCSU Board Meeting lasted until about 1:30 AM but somehow a decision was made. BIRT that the SCSU hold a re-election with the following timeline: Deadline for nominations - March 23; Campaigning until April 8; voting on April 9.This was after a presentation by the Chair on options and pros and cons, and the presentation of a letter from former SCSU Executives. The vote to hold another

Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04515644494377899185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134138468102300703.post-91286699496016543822007-03-14T12:09:00.000-04:002007-03-15T14:22:17.284-04:00

Emergency Board of Directors meeting tonight. Main topic on the agenda: What To Do Now That We've Thrown Out The Elections. We'll go over the situation as it stands, consequences, what we can and cannot do (according to by-laws and policies), possible paths of action, etc., and then (hopefully!) the debate will be over which option is best. I hear there's going to be an all-star lineup in

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Further updates from the SCSU: Around 5:30 Sunday afternoon, Raj Gunaratnam, the SCSU President, calls me on my cell. He wants to know what I think about sending an advertisement for a re-election to the Varsity for Monday's issue. I tell him that such an election would be illegal, as By-law #2, specifically Sections 2.01 and 2.02, outline that a) the Board must set and ratify the timing of all

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After averting disaster in the form of our by-laws being broken AGAIN, I'm tired and need to do my homework. More on this and further developments in the elections debacle later.

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I am finally getting around to writing this, after much thought and discussion. Friday night was the SCSU Board of Directors meeting with the Report from the Elections Committee on it. Unfortunately the PDF of the report is not up yet, so you'll have to take me at my word on what it contains until I can link to it. First, here's the short version: After a four hour meeting, for the second time

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With 15 minutes left in International Women's Day, here is my blog against sexism.I don't remember the first time I ever really encountered sexism. Some people have stories about how they were treated as kids but I wanted both Barbies and Tonka trucks so I got both Barbies and Tonka trucks. Sometimes the Barbies drove the Tonka trucks in the sandbox. And as far as I can remember, there wasn't

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The media attention keeps coming. The National Post ran the article today. This morning, Heidi and I were pulled away by one of the university's PR people to talk to Global news, so I'll be on TV tonight. Finally, this afternoon I got a phone call from the Globe and Mail, who will probably be coming in tomorrow. Throughout all of this I'm trying to stress that this isn't a big deal. Of course the

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Wow. This women-only workouts thing has garnered more attention than I thought it would. Hell, than it really should. There were articles in the Underground and the Frequency, the two U of T Scarborough papers, and my friend Karen wrote one for the Varsity. This is the one that has been drawing some attention. On Monday, Heidi told me she received a call from CBC Radio's morning show, and today,

Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04515644494377899185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134138468102300703.post-76170563934868374692007-03-06T23:02:00.000-05:002007-03-06T23:49:52.110-05:00

So here I am, working away at the SCSU, teaming up with the Athletics Department to offer women-only workout times at the Rec Centre. Over 65% of UTSC students are women, and among our diverse campus is a large Muslim population. There was student demand and so we did it, we're on our merry way. We got three hour and a half time slots per week in the Cardio Theatre. Blinds were installed for

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