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jenni next

synethstesia

About Me

Ditching the thesaurus and going on instinct. Creativity is coming back but only in small increments. I still need the occasional cigarette and coffee is my vice of choice. I wish I could succumb to opium or some other glamorous intoxicant to make me creative, but my disease prevents me from that life. Systemic Lupus is both a curse and a blessing in all ways imaginable. Being sick has caused me to look at the world in a different light. I don't see life through rose colored glasses, instead I see more clearly what I want to change.

My Interests

Art, books, my computer, planetary science, cosmology, geophysics

I'd like to meet:

Artists, writers, musicians, poets, philanthropists, philosophers (not the barstool type), activists, linguists, historians, anthropologists, anyone with something important or interesting to contribute, and geniuses of all types. And, David Gilmour and Roger Waters...

Music:

I like it loud Especially if it's Sean and Toni (Code) and Darin Westcott, and Alicia Marie, and Tiffany Kyees!

Movies:

Citizen Kane, The Life of Emile Zola, Casa Blanca, The Big Blue, anything by Akiro Kurosawa, To Live (Zhang Yimou), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mary Poppins, Sound of Music, Pink Floyd - Live at Pompei

Television:

I don't have a TV. I feel like I am lacking the knowledge of pop culture that goes along with TV watching. Unlike everyone else, I don't think that television is bad. It is just a thing you know...it's not evil. It is only evil if you abuse it....like everything else. although, that being said, I will not allow myself a TV because I become a listless, drooling idiot if I have one.

Books:

Edward Abbey, Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Cheever, John Updike, Ayn Rand, Marcel Proust, Robert Jordan, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce, Margaret Atwood, Upton Sinclair (I don't like the way he writes but I think he's important to read)...Tolstoy, Chekhov, need to read more Nabokov, Gogol, basically, any Russian Literature, I just love it. I'm really starting to like Tennessee Williams and I like to read The Economist. Right now I am reading Jane Eyre. I don't remember ever reading it!

Heroes:

right now: the illustrators of The Economist magazine.

My Blog

my new backyard

Here are just a few of the wild-flowers that I see during a typical walk with my dog on another gorgeous, Colorado day:Alpine Anemonies, Colorado Columbine, Arnica, Campanulas, Indian Paintbrush, Delp...
Posted by jenni next on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:21:00 PST

anthem

Into the distance, a ribbon of blackStretched to the point of no turning backA flight of fancy on a windswept fieldStanding alone my senses reeledA fatal attraction holding me fast, howCan I escape th...
Posted by jenni next on Mon, 26 May 2008 11:58:00 PST

same old story

This is not a cleverly written blog so those of you who read my blog looking for sardonic wit and humor you won't get find it here.I'm writing because I'm too tired to call everyone and give updates a...
Posted by jenni next on Tue, 20 May 2008 01:27:00 PST

...okay, so not the last blog

This is my declaration stating that it is okay for me to be exhuasted.  Here are the reasons why: 1. I have spent the last month painting and spackling.  This may be no big deal to some...
Posted by jenni next on Sun, 11 May 2008 01:16:00 PST

a blog to end all blogs

Been a long time, partly because I am still writing a letter to Los Poblanos Organics here in Albuquerque. This letter describes my disappointment with their really crappy service and also outlines t...
Posted by jenni next on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:16:00 PST

Lean and Mean

Lean and mean. Those are the two words that describe me or that will describe me in 2008. I want to become like a well run manufacturing plant that keeps its inventories low and is implementing Just...
Posted by jenni next on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:02:00 PST

"Starfish", by Eleanor Lerman

Poem: "Starfish" by Eleanor Lerman, from Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds. © Sarabande Books, 2005. I heard this yesterday on The Writer's Almanac and had to post!StarfishThis is what life does. It let...
Posted by jenni next on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:09:00 PST

Too little, too late

A white beam of hot light brimmed the mountain peak and spilled over to the valley below. The focused ray of intense energy, an unnatural product of the winter sun unbridled by atmosphere, melted the...
Posted by jenni next on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:01:00 PST

Pygmalion

It's an old story. An old story that I have never identified with, nor have I cared to write about, but I simply cannot take it anymore. The story of the king of Cyprus who carved and then fell in l...
Posted by jenni next on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:52:00 PST

Roll the Dice - Bukowski

Roll the Diceby Charles Bukowskiif you're going to try, go all theway.otherwise, don't even start.if you're going to try, go all theway. this could mean losing girlfriends,wives, relatives, jobs andma...
Posted by jenni next on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:48:00 PST