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jenna

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

intelligent, passionate, fun, adventurous, urban hippie, footsoldier in the war on schizophrenia, great friend, snake lover and owner, funny, sometimes blue, engaging, activist, self-depricator, weird, sometimes cool, articulate, (in)sane, compassionate, caring, dedicated, and i've found "it!"

My Interests

falling in love with people, places and things, my pet boa - snakie, music, ds lite, live music, my ipod, shooting people in the eye - with lazers - for wayne, mushrooms, trees, people watching, fish tanks, ginger, singing in the shower and in the car, books, smells, pillows and blankets, blown glass, extra dark chocolate, bodies of water, t-shirts, activism, bubble tea, lumines, candles, smelly soaps, hugs and kisses, sneakers and flip flops, back rubs, lotions and potions, building relationships, good conversation, passionate love, thinking and overthinking, harm reduction, taking pictures, the sun, friendships, social justice, adventures, learning and being.

I'd like to meet:

you, definitely you.

Music:

The Beatles, The Flaming Lips, Clem Snide, Ben Folds, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Led Zepplin, The Magentic Fields, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Brian Wilson, Outkast, The Postal Service, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Nico, Belle and Sebastian, Soul Coughing, Spiritualized, Badly Drawn Boy, John Lennon, The Monkees, America, Nick Drake, Bright Eyes, Todd Amodeo, Pink and Noseworthy, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Doughty, Elvis Costello, Pavement, The Dandy Warhols, sigur ros, REM, The Cure, They Might be Giants, Weezer, Yo la Tengo, The Velvet Underground

Movies:

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Woodstock the Movie, Desperado, Napolean Dynamite, DIG, The Neverending Story, Lost in Translation, Some Like it Hot, The Secret of Nimh, Cinema Paradiso, The Godfather, Clueless, Friday, Goonies, Fearless Freaks, Shawshank, Billy Madison, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tommy Boy, Almost Famous, The Money Pit, Goodfellas, Labyrinth, Dumb and Dumber, The Motorcycle Diaries, Old School, Boogie Nights, Whale Rider, True Romance, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Spun, A Scanner Darkly, Yellow Submarine, Kicking and Screaming, Half Nelson, Stranger than Fiction

Television:

Wonder Showzen, Entourage, Family Guy, Elimidate, [adult swim], Curb Your Enthusiasm, MTV/VH1 crap, Monday Night Football (only in HD), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Books:

The Brothers Karamazov, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Everything is Illuminated, Dry, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Good Earth, Pet Cemetary, A Scanner Darkly, Memoirs of a Geisha, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Fast Food Nation, Hitchhiker's Guide, The Once and Future King, The Satanic Verses, The Stand, The Hobbit, Push, The Dead Zone, Reefer Madness, Random Family, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Little Prince, The Red and the Black, The Fortress of Solitude, The Dharma Bums...

Heroes:

edith springer, annie sullivan, holly bradford, dorothy day, wayne coyne, einstein, don mcvinney, art spiegelman, terrance mckenna, brian wilson, my mom, my dad, my grandparents, my clients, my sweet rob... this list is a work in progress.

My Blog

Vegas baby!

it's been a while since i've posted. been busy with my new job at the hospital and i hate to admit it, but my obsession with myspace has cooled off a little. i'm actually posting with a purpose toda...
Posted by jenna on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:44:00 PST

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i miss my dad.
Posted by jenna on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:22:00 PST

incredible (and incredibly long)

so, i've been working five jobs for the past two weeks. i know that sounds ridiculous... i know. mondays through fridays i work two of them: one from 5:30 am to 7:30 am, and one from 8:00 am to 5:0...
Posted by jenna on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:19:00 PST

getting ready to grieve again

in less than a month i'll be faced with the one year anniversary of my dad's death. for some reason, at the end of work today i found myself re-reading some of the e-mails that i received from my cho...
Posted by jenna on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:53:00 PST

random new york-ness

this morning at 6:00 am, i had a group interview down on bowery for a part-time contract position doing interviews with homeless individuals between 5:30 am and 7:30 am, monday through friday.  i...
Posted by jenna on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:04:00 PST

pussies!

so, on saturday rob and adopted a teeny, tiny, itty, bitty, kitty. she is terribly cute. the runt of the bunch. she is orange and white and we've named her clementine. it was the only name that sh...
Posted by jenna on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:17:00 PST

birthdays and such

so, today would have been my dad's 61st birthday. and it has been about a year since my grandfather died. i can't help but hope that they are somewhere celebrating my dad's birthday with jack and co...
Posted by jenna on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:23:00 PST

bloggity, blog, blog

so it's been a while since i've blogged. i guess i find it easier to spill my guts than just give updates on how i'm doing. so here goes nothing... things in nyc are going well. it's almost the fo...
Posted by jenna on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:24:00 PST

long time, no blog

so, it's been a long time since i've blogged.  my grandmother passed away  three weeks ago and i've been trying to spare everyone from my grief this time around.  i got to see her in th...
Posted by jenna on Fri, 04 May 2007 04:41:00 PST

sometimes it just creeps up on you

so, here we go.  last night my boyfriend was watching inside the actor's studio and chris rock was being interviewed.  it was great, he's an insanely smart man and i was enthralled.  th...
Posted by jenna on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:27:00 PST