I bought some smoked sausage and shrimp, cooking that with some onions, peppers, pancetta, thyme, basil, parsley, and of course some white rice with chicken base. Maybe some cayenne.

sounds good as shit

I'd add celery when you saute the onions and peppers and some white pepper for the classic Cajun flavor profile. Also, how could there be any doubt about the cayenne? Sounds very good, though. Let me know how it turns out with pancetta. never thought of that, and it's a chore to get tasso ham around here.

i looked up some jambalaya recipes, some oregano, cumin, bay leaf, worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce might be interesting to add. tomato, fresh or canned also seems to be a popular ingredient.
i want to try a vegetarian variety of jambalaya but not sure if the flavor will be right.. im thinkin i'll need a lil seafood stock

I thought about the celery, I decided to not use it, I don't know why. Probably because of the texture. Although I use celery in my Chicken Soup and it gets that soft, soggy, but still stringy texture and I love it.

And yeah, I'm going to use pancetta just because I don't have any regular bacon, I'm interested in how it'll come out.

Just peel em if you dont want the stringy texture?

Vegetarian jambalaya? Erm...why?