Eat Your Vegetables

2004-01-15 10:56 a.m.
Frequently Asked Questions

1. Who the hell do you think you are?
Last time I checked, I was Jen. I live in Vancouver, BC, and work for a large automotive company in a cubicle farm.

2. What makes you the expert?
I have an excellent memory and I’m a good bullshitter. Duh.

3. Why do you swear so much?
I was born into a blue collar family and use swearing to remind myself that wealth doesn’t necessarily mean smarts. No, I’m kidding. I don’t know why. I just do. Deal or fuck off.

4. Who is Bevan?
Bevan was my cat. He died August 03. You can read about that here because I don’t want to talk about that. I have since adopted Mooki. And yes, that’s me holding her. Aren’t we just so hot?

5. Who designed this kickass diary?
Gillian. And she fucking rules.

6. What happened to I Owe It All to Sarcasm?
IOIATS was my old diary. I was angry. I was sarcastic and bitter and now I’m not. Jen.20 was a lovely orange and rust design that was nice and warm and felt like pumpkin pie. Now, Jen 3.0 is bold and pretty. It reflects my mood and my personality a bit more now. The entries from both IOIATS and Jen 2.0 can still be found in my archives, but the look and the name are now in my past. You shouldn’t live in the past either, so if you are pining away for the old sarcastic, slutty uber-bitch that was me before, sorry. Again, deal or fuck off.

7. I’ve noticed in a lot of entries you refer to HRR. Who is she?
Well, if you are a keener, you can read my old entries and figure out what her actual name is as I used to refer to her by name before I devised my system of acronyms and psuedonyms. HRR stands for Her Royal Roommatedness. I lived with HRR from August ’01 till February ’04. There is a lot of history between us recorded in this diary.

8. What’s with the locked diary?
I started this diary a long time ago as a bit of a “well, let’s see what I do with this” type of thing. I started it to write about stuff that I was sure my friends were tired of hearing. Plus, like I said, I work in a cubicle farm and I am online all day long and I need something to do that makes me look busy lest my boss find me more work to do. I always went under the principle that if I was publishing this online for the world to see, then I had no right to lock it. Then I started using IOIATS as a place to vent about HRR and she was reading it and oh, bad things happened. So I locked it. I’m a hypocrite. Sue me. You obviously have the password, so fuck, whatever.

9. What would you call your favorite entries?
I put a lot into this question, and as of this editing of my FAQ (October 04), here they are:
The one where I talk about my favorite homeless guy
The one where I discuss what it is like to live in a supermodel world
This one, in which I discuss Vancouver drivers
The roommate removal entry
The comparison of my resolutions and how I really did
This one, where I pay homage to my mom
This list of things I want to do one day