01/19/02
Heart Attack Du Jour
I nearly hit a deer.
A baby deer.
The same one I’ve seen cross the road near my house three times within the same month.
And I think it recognizes me. I wonder if it finds me as much of an odd and precious creature of wonder as I find it?
Either that or it just wants to remind me to check my brakes and wash my car more often.
Heavens knows I still have Vancouver dust & salt on the hood.
The word of the day is Canibal.
I just got back from my bible study group. Heaven’s knows it has been too long sicnce I’ve chilled with them.
Tonights topics covered the mystical body of JC and the communion, things/desires that hold us back from our spiritual growth, and trash talking Taboo.
Odd stories on why I make a warped Catholic girl.
When I was 8, I had an overactive and hyper imaginative mind. I once made myself throw up by merely looking at a plate of cold spaggetti and imagining that it was a bunch of writhing tapeworms. I think I had seen a snippet of Poltergeist the month before. After reading IT, I was constipated for a week because I was afraid something was going to come up from the toilet and kill me.
So I guess it didn’t bode well, when a few weeks after I had taken my first communion, I was teased by an evil cousin.
“Hey, you know that Catholics are canibals, right? “
“What?”
“Yeah, you’re really eating the body of Jesus.”
“WHAT?!”
“Well, you know, unlike consubstantiation* Catholics believe in Transubstantion** and the bread really becomes a piece of Jesus. Don’t you notice when you chew that it tastes a little like chicken?”
The next week when I took communion, I had to struggle to keep the communion wafer down. For in my dry mouth, my overactive imagination had indeed transformed the wafer, dry and crisp, turning into a paper thin slice of roasted Jesus.
* consubstantiation ] n. Theol. the doctrine that the substance of the bread and wine of the Eucharist exists, after consecration, side by side with the substance of the body and blood of Christ but is not changed into it ),
** transubstantiation n. Theol. Change of one substance into another. Term for Roman Catholic view that in the eucharistic rite the substance or basic reality of bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Jesus Christ, while the outward appearances of bread and wine are not affected. Roman Catholic theologians disagree as to whether bread and wine are annihilated in the process or if they pass into preexistent body and blood.
BRUTAL
There is very little that is more competitive, brutal, ruthless, and violent than a biblestudy playing Taboo.
Especially if it’s boys against girls.
Girls Clue:What does min jung have on her ass”
Girls Answer:
Boys Clue: A false female entity that supposedly governs the planet.
Boy 1: “BOOOBS!”
Girls:
Boy 2: “Uh.. Mother Earth.”
Girls:
Two stumper Words:
Copacabana
and
Queen.
For Queen, my clue was “Drag *blank”
My sweet sweet naive little moppets on my team answered “Racing… oooh oooh Fast and the Furious… oooh oooh rice rockets…”
Girls won. (duh). We rock. And though much of the discussion of the evening was regarding the virtue of humility, kindness, and service to each other, we gals were smack talking sore winners and rubbed the boys faces in it. They owe us a four course dinner now. Wooot! SUCKERS!
Laters, yo.
Min Jung
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