The Meaning of JuJu

I said the phrase, "that is some bad JuJu" in a meeting today and was confronted with "exactly what is JuJu?" by a woman who, by all rights and means, should just go away.

Being one to always have the right answer at the wrong time, I came up with this on the way home: (warning: "on the way home" means from a 14-hour work day on a trip I don't remember all but two blocks of. I'm pretty sure I was hallucinating, because I do remember at one point thinking that the bank looked like one of those twisty buildings out of a Seuss book.)

According to Laura's Dictionary Of Shit She Thinks About While Driving or Showering, JuJu is essentially cosmic ectoplasm. It acts as a medium for feelings, actions and attitudes. While it can snake out and wrap itself around others, it still belongs to us (in the individual ownership sense) and will always come back. Karma resides in JuJu and is what allows Karma to kick our asses when we're deserving. JuJu is the stuff that holds the cup when it's running over because we're doing the right thing or are on the right path. Our JuJu can meld with other peoples' and transfer properties to/from one another. And thus bad JuJu is just going to get your Karmic ass kicked.

And that, my grasshoppers, is today's post about nothing.

Rock on, my three faithful readers.