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Jenny

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About Me


Hi, I'm Jennifer.
I am impatient.
I like deep-fried pickles, pizza, my elbows, walks at night, fireflies, a clean house, organized things, big hugs laced with sincerity, mountains, unexpected compliments, warm cloudy days, Dove milk chocolate, the air in autumn, snow before it turns black with exhaust, painted toenails, and cuddling with Vellux blankets of any color. I rearrange my furniture too frequently and I've adpoted way too many strange pets in the past. I love Detroit no matter what. I like to volunteer to do things no one wants to do. I took Japanese at the high school and college level and sadly, I only retained a few key phrases.
I don't like abusive people, emotional indifference, insensitivity, milk, fish, sunburns, vanity, liquid eyeliner (I can't ever put that shit on right!), fluorescent-colored anything, spandex pants, jogging pants with misleading words on the rear ("Hot" or "Sexy").
I don't do any drugs but I enjoy beer, wine, and mixed drinks.
Since 1999 I have been improving financial lives in the metro Detroit area and since 2005 I've been a part-time Certified Massage Therapist (CMT) specializing in Aromatherapy techniques.
I am an MBA candidate. My goal with this education is not necessarily to have a particular position or role in society (or to be a perpetual student, despite what my family says). Instead, my goal is to always be intellectually challenged. My dream job would be to become a socio-economist: one who studies the relationship between social life and economic activity. I don't know where these people actually work, but I want to be one of them.
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My Interests

Writing, reading, organizing things with labels!, driving around aimlessly in new places (and shopping in new places), and economic/sociological based discussions.

You Are A Green Girl
You feel most at home in a world of ideas. You're curious and logical - and enjoy a good intellectual challenge. You're super cool, calm, and collected. Very little tries your patience. Your only fear? People not realizing how smart and able you are! What Color Girl Are You? OH MY GOD did this thing just say "very little" tried my patience? WOW. I think you have to have patience for it to be "tried."

I'd like to meet:

Franklin D. Roosevelt in his pre-World War II days to discuss his then-experimental social programs
Economists everywhere who forecast and plan accordingly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson for an infusion of heighty, hedonist transcendentalism.
Michael Moore. If he thought Flint was suffering in his 1989 film "Roger and Me," I'd love to see what he had to say about Detroit, Saginaw, Flint, and...well, the rest of Michigan in 2008. In addition, even though the CEO would rarely make personnel decisions regarding GM, maybe we could track down Rick Wagoner and talk about the components of effective corporate governance.
Tennessee Williams because he's such a creative, twisted literary genius.

Music:

Depeche Mode, Led Zeppelin, New Order, U2, The Smiths, Morrissey, Bob Seger!, Bruce Springsteen, Simon and Garfunkel, John Mayer, Tori Amos, The Killers, Moby, Morcheeba, The White Stripes, Rolling Stones, KISS, Spoon, The Cure, and The Beatles.

Movies:

Rocky (I through IV), The Illusionist, Amelie, Like Water for Chocolate, Taxi Driver, Roger & Me, Sin City, Strictly Ballroom, Muriel's Wedding, Forrest Gump, Fiddler on the Roof, Frida, Polish Wedding, The Wedding Singer, The Virgin Suicides.

Television:

I watch the news, and yes, I already know it's biased.

Books:

Books are a huge part of my life! I LOVE British Postcolonial Literature for its restrained passion(Dickens, Bronte, Austen), American Transcendentalist Literature (Thoreau, Emerson) and Realist (20th c. American) Literature for its truly bittersweet endings (D.H. Lawrence, Henry James).
Some of my favorite books are those involving intrapersonal conflict and psychological epiphanies.

Heroes:

My BOYS are my heroes for their innocence and honesty.

My Blog

$5 to the winner

There’s a truck on my street that has a window sticker that reads: If it’s brown, it’s down. What does this mean?  $5 to the person with the best answer.  And the truck is ...
Posted by Jenny on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:50:00 PST

Very Important Information

www.songfacts.com This a really great way to find out all sorts of interesting stuff about songs.  Like that 70's group 10cc MIGHT have coined their name because 10cc of semen is what a man ejacu...
Posted by Jenny on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:15:00 PST

"food" @ the grocery store

At the grocery store today I was buying shredded mozzarella cheese (I was preparing to make stuffed shells mmmm) and when I looked at all my selections some were priced really disproportionately. ...
Posted by Jenny on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:42:00 PST