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jennrubenstein

loud music is amazing; i want to experience it for years to come, and i'm sure you do, too. WEAR EAR

About Me

i'm jenn. i'm 26. i'm a native washingtonian, i grew up 13 miles south of the pentagon, i love loud music, yuengling, my ohio state buckeyes, and the redskins, and i currently live in the brighton neighborhood of boston, massachusetts (between boston university and boston college - send me a message if you'd like my current address). i just graduated on may 18, 2008, from Boston University, Sargent College, with a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology , where i specialized in voice disorders and swallowing. i am currently pursuing a career in the medical realm in the dc area, and will be moving back to the region asap.
i've had a lot of people (okay, basically everyone i know, and many i don't) ask me to explain my chosen career. i think my basic short explanation helps clear up a lot of the confusion, and i'm happy to share that with you - just send me a message! if you're really curious, i found a pretty complete description of the profession as a whole, covering all aspects of the field. click here to read more about what an SLP does.
click here to add your input to my johari window.
"in my lifetime, we've gone from eisenhower to george w. bush. we've gone from john f. kennedy to al gore. if this is evolution, i believe that in 12 years, we'll be voting for plants." -lewis black
does the way i wear my hair make me a better person?
does the way i wear my hair make me a better friend?
does the way i wear my hair determine my integrity?
i am expressing my creativity...
i am not my hair, i am not this skin, i am not your expectations
i am not my hair, i am not this skin, i am a soul that lives within
- india.arie - "i am not my hair"
"most americans are not nearly as homophobic as they were brought up to think they were supposed to be." -congressperson barney frank
"i think if i have any credibility in the gay community, it's because over the years i've defended one simple principle which is: there should not be two sets of civil rights in this country, one for people who put penises in vaginas, and one for people who don't." -bill maher
collage updated 29 july 2007
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My Interests

music, linguistics, yiddish, perception, voice, language, speech, boston, piercing, tattoos, life, learning, house/wilson, eppescest, wine, art. football, basketball. (baseball, hockey, soccer.) the ohio state buckeyes. washington redskins, washington wizards, our nation's capitals (c-a-p-s caps caps caps), washington nationals, dc united. boston red sox, boston celtics. boston university hockey (fuck 'em up, fuck 'em up, BC SUCKS!)

I'd like to meet:

¤ other people who crave intellectual stimulation.
¤ voice professionals
¤ queers, jews, and queer jews in boston
¤ people who work in & around bands

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Music:

dredg, bob, humanroom, mute math, polkadot cadaver, mindless self induldgence, circa survive, phantom communique, cky, dropkick murphys, head automatica, 36 crazyfists, lennex, mad caddies.
suicide city, the speaks, godhead, 30 seconds to mars, city sleeps, 51 peg, egz, maus.
josh groban, norah jones, alicia keys, lily allen, regina spektor, NOTA, seal.
offspring, green day, foo fighters, cake, weezer, 311, system of a down, nirvana, sublime, aerosmith, black sabbath, nirvana, led zeppelin, tool, pink floyd, tenacious d, hall & oates, gorillaz, nin, johnny cash, rammstein, apc, rockapella.
panic! at the disco, scissor sisters, elton john.
bach, chopin, haydn, tchaikovsky.
(strata, fourth element, dog fashion disco, the alter boys, halfway broken, 33 west, margret heater, jepetto, spectre, welbilt, two skinnee j's, supermack.)

Movies:

existentialist themes/psychological thrillers: donnie darko, american psycho, equilibrium, being john malkovich, fight club, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the butterfly effect, the usual suspects, minority report, identity, memento
other great films: batman begins, the big lebowski, soylent green, dead poets society, gattaca, stranger than fiction, to wong foo, the princess bride, x-men (all), harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, harry potter and the goblet of fire, harry potter and the order of the phoenix, newsies, the davinci code, rocky horror, empire of the sun, the cell, charlie and the chocolate factory, pcu, bound, the fifth element, my cousin vinny, yentl, get real, beautiful thing, the bubble

Television:

house, degrassi the next generation, er, ugly betty, lost, grey's anatomy, numb3rs, how i met your mother, the big bang theory, desperate housewives.
heroes, south of nowhere, friday night lights, private practice, las vegas.
the l word, scrubs, medium, bones, svu.

Books:

1984, animal farm, to kill a mockingbird, lord of the flies, harry potter (all), funny boy, the fountainhead, atlas shrugged, the da vinci code, angels & demons, deception point, digital fortress, lullaby, tipping the velvet, jennifer government

Heroes:

favorite authors: ayn rand, chuck palahniuk, jk rowling, george orwell
favorite athletes: washington redskins: clinton portis, chris cooley, santana moss. rip sean taylor, #21, hardest hitting safety in the nfl. boston red sox: kevin youkilis, jonathan papelbon, manny ramirez, david big papi ortiz, jacoby ellsbury. washington nationals: cristian guzman, lastings milledge, dmitri young. ohio state buckeyes: james laurinaitis, chris beanie wells, brian robiskie, ray small, todd boeckman, maurice wells. (former buckeyes: mike nugent [jets], a.j. hawk [packers], santonio holmes [steelers], troy smith [ravens], ted ginn, jr. [dolphins, poor guy])
favorite actors: christian bale, jake gyllenhaal, robert downey jr., johnny depp, angelina jolie
favorite artists: salvador dalí, rené magritte, hr giger
favorite comedians: mitch hedberg, ellen degeneres, dane cook

My Blog

today

here in boston, it is 12:19am on sunday, may 18, 2008. i graduate with my master's degree today. that is all.
Posted by jennrubenstein on Sun, 18 May 2008 09:20:00 PST

12 days

standing between me and graduation are: 12 days fluency soap edits (asap) motor speech final exam (tuesday may 6) hearing II paper edits (asap) interview (wednesday may 7) final group conference...
Posted by jennrubenstein on Tue, 06 May 2008 11:05:00 PST

va/dc/md? come to TTs TUESDAY!!! . . . [this tues. jan 8]

i leave to go back to boston next wednesday, january 9. i don't know when i'll be back in town next, but it won't be until after i graduate in may. (depending on where i apply for jobs, i suppose it's...
Posted by jennrubenstein on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:24:00 PST

ill be in town dec 27 - jan 9

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Posted by jennrubenstein on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:22:00 PST

why i went to grad school, finals week edition

http://wbztv.com/sports/Vitale.throat.surgery.2.613639.htmlD ick Vitale, the voice of college basketball for almost three decades, had vocal cord surgery Tuesday and is expected to be off the air until...
Posted by jennrubenstein on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:21:00 PST

it’s official

the israel trip i hoped to go on this winter has been canceled.that means i'm definitely going to be home for a while! (aka more than just a couple of days.)i don't know exactly what day i'll be back ...
Posted by jennrubenstein on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:52:00 PST

quiz...

Okay this is called "FIRST REACTIONS QUIZ". You have to type the 1ST thing that comes to mind whenever you hear these 35 things. You can't think and go back and change your answers. Copy and Paste, th...
Posted by jennrubenstein on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:34:00 PST

tonights presidential forum on logo

yes, i watched the entire thing - streaming on my computer.these were my notes, scribbled in real-time with sharpie on index cards i had lying around. 1. OBAMA - makes me feel scuzzy. (that's honestly...
Posted by jennrubenstein on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:17:00 PST

the new 7 wonders...

i just had an amazing weekend... during which i spent just shy of 24 hours sitting in a classroom at new england conservatory. and i loved it. next time there is a rock/pop workshop taught by the inst...
Posted by jennrubenstein on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:51:00 PST

the latest edition of "why i'm in grad school," by jennrubenstein

i chose to go to grad school for my master's in speech-language pathology in order to specialize in voice disorders, particularly to work with professional singers.this isn't what most people think of...
Posted by jennrubenstein on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:44:00 PST