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Jen

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My Interests

Music:

Radiohead, The Clash, Iron and Wine, Pavement, Butterglory, Neutral Milk Hotel, Teenage Fanclub, Arcade Fire, Thom Yorke, The Black Keys, The White Stripes, Cat Power, Peter Bjorn and John, Andrew Bird, Stephen Malkmus, The Kings of Convenience, Silver Jews, Smog, The Flaming Lips, Rilo Kiley, The Hives, Dead Kennedys, NOFX, Sleater-Kinney, Rye Coalition, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell (Blue Album), Buddy Holly, Sublime, Johann Sebastian Bach, Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Bessie Smith, and Blink-18freakin2

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo

Books:

Rhetorical theory, Southern Gothic novels and short stories, poetry

My Blog

Twenty-six

Every year I make all this effort to create for myself an ordinary day, like any other -  it never turns out that way.  So I've decided: next year, if I'm still here in Hawaii, I'm partying ...
Posted by Jen on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:25:00 PST

Me me me

So the other day I walk into work, on time for the first time in months, and I suppose the expression on my face is more pleasant than usual because my boss greets me with, "Hi Sunshine!"I equally ent...
Posted by Jen on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:35:00 PST

Imagining Defeat

She woke me up at dawn,her suitcase like a little brown dog at her heels.I sat up and looked out the windowat the snow falling in the stand of blackjack trees.A bus ticket in her hand.Then she brought...
Posted by Jen on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:32:00 PST

Relapse

Yes, I'm sick again.  And this time I don't mean in the head.  Strictly.  ---Two or three years ago, I was working on a job where I spent a few days, if not a couple of weeks taking pho...
Posted by Jen on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:34:00 PST

Another semester ends...

I swear I must've been saying this every other day for the past month, but I can't freakin' wait for summer break.  These past two semesters have been pretty draining and I could definitely use s...
Posted by Jen on Wed, 09 May 2007 04:13:00 PST

Match.com ads on Myspace

Does anyone else think those match.com ads are annoying as hell?  I don't know how the ones for guys are, but man.  I can't stand that one idiot they choose to play the "smart"/nerdy guy - d...
Posted by Jen on Fri, 04 May 2007 09:24:00 PST

I work with David the Gnome.

ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Yes, I get paid to make gnome caps out of transparent tape....
Posted by Jen on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:05:00 PST

Virginia Tech

It's weird, being in Hawaii.  We're so far removed from so much that a lot of people (such as myself) tend to feel a lack of immediacy or urgency to big events that take place elsewhere.  I ...
Posted by Jen on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:00:00 PST

Earth Day and Friends of KTUH Benefit at Indigo

Indigo1121 Nuuanu Avenue10 pm to 2am21+Support college radio!
Posted by Jen on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:07:00 PST

Remember?

"What do you think love is, Chuck?" "Well, years ago, my dad owned a black 1934 two-door sedan." "What's that got to do with love?" "Well, this is what he told me: there was this really cute girl, see...
Posted by Jen on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:38:00 PST