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I feel like a little kid again.

I attended candlelight service with my family tonight, to make my momma happy. As an agnostic I could have done without the massive amounts of Protestant guilt, the claim that without religion Christmas becomes strictly materalist, and better keys for the hymns, but I got through it without getting up and walking out on the sermon like I was oh-so-tempted to do, so I'm very proud of myself.

But my favorite quote of the evening:

< A man speaking to some children, cheerily: >

Man {note, still very cheerily}: "Well you know, its not your birthday, it's Jesus's birthday, so you might not get anything."

Was he trying to make them cry? Geez.

I had an otherwise funky day but Kirbys heal all wounds. I love my Kirbys.

Finally some Jump, Little Children Christmas cheer for you.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a good night.

So cheesy.

As promised, the internet has given me the ability to be a master digital archivist of my life. Sounds like a bad hp commercial.

Anyway.

106 West's Annual Christmas program, Saturday, December 14th, 2002. Me performing 2 songs:

Joni Mitchell's River: MP3 Audio | Streaming Video

Christmas Blues: MP3 Audio | Streaming Video

I'll be here all week! Tip your servers. Thank you and goodnight.

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Why haven't you done this yet? Do you not love me?

Some Holiday Cheer.

I want these.

And while you are here, you could always take a look at this.

*Smooch*

About jennatollerson.com: I rearranged some things. The content of my bedroom moved to the kitchen, the kitchen moved to the mailbox, and new special content is coming to the bedroom. I've also added a concert calendar, so no one will be able to accuse me of not remembering to tell them about a show again, because you can look up all the shows I'm going to and even some I can't go to right there.

So, there. Or something.

Okay...

Did you ever get a cut and you can't remember how you got it? I have one on my left hand right now.

You know those oat clusters in cereals like Honey Bunches of Oats and Cranberry Almond Crunch? They should make a cereal out of just clusters.

Mmmm... Skippy peanut butter.

I feel like finals are already over. It's surreal. Maybe that's why I'm having such a hard time willing myself to study for my last final, which is tonight. I feel really really prepared and not prepared at all at the same time. How does that work?

Coming soon... A/V of the now even more famous Jenna Tollerson. Stay tuned.

And wish me luck.

I'm beginning to hate school.

1) I can't get the classes I need.

2) They are not offering the classes I want to take, or else, because reasons of prerequisite, they are unaccessible to me.

3) Because I've fucked up my GPA beyond recognition with this class I did not need, I still will probably not get to go to art school next semester.

Oh yeah, life is fucking dandy.

There are no interesting courses to take to fill out my schedule. Where are the course on Beat poetry and novels, or drug culture in the 20th century? Huh? Why is it all Victorian poetry and Colonial America? Why is my university so fucking dry?

To top it all off, the couple classes I am a little interested in are not being offered next semester.

Right now I have have Political Science on my schedule. And that's it. I can't even get into that Ecology class, even now, which is the situation responsible for the whole science fuck-up in the first place.

Can you say, semester off?

Of course, if I left and got a job, I don't think I would come back. Actually, I know I wouldn't.

Assuming I can get a real job.

I'm just so tired of this bureaucratic bullshit.

Back to the Future is coming out on DVD!!!

Talk about culture that defined my childhood, geez.

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{That one is my favorite.}

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So I have decided that Marine Enviroment is the lost cause to end all lost causes. I know that it is no longer typical of me to give up so easily, but it is a matter of priorities. I'm not going to give up valuable time studying for other tests in order to maybe salvage the wreckage and pick out pieces of flotsam and jetsam that I probably already have anyway.

In the metaphor, the class is a shipwreck. But I think I went too far with it.

Anyway, my mind has reached a point of saturation after studying for three days, I have have decided it is time to go get some dinner, then go home and relax and go to bed early so I don't miss my 8 AM Rock History final.

I'm not giving into crippling panic of semesters past. I have worked hard this year. Some classes will show it, and some classes won't, but that's the way the cookie crumbles, you know? I'm trying not to sweat it.

Everything is going to be fine. I've been trying my best, and that is all I can continue to do.

Despite the horrors of academia, everything continues to look very bright.

Weird.

Everyone come see me and an assorted cast of characters perform in 106 West's Annual Christmas Show this weekend.

Guaranteed to be much cooler than it sounds.

Some updates:

As it turns out, you can get in trouble for alcohol you may or may not have consumed at one time.

But it turned out fine. I just went in and told the truth (except replacing 'me' with 'someone really close to me', which is still the truth, just keeps me from looking like an alcoholic) and he promised me my record would be cleared, and so would my roommate's, and reminded me to be more careful with things like this is the future.

Oh, I will.

Sabrina is the newest hostee at 5750, and the board is becoming more active. And it's still orange! Go, I command you.

As for HTML not showing up in comments, that's because I disabled HTML in comments, so all tags get stripped. Being a designer/developer I know how malicious users could get if I allowed HTML, but I'm currently looking for a patch to allow certain tags (i,b,u,s,a, and maybe img) in the comments. But I also might just give up, allow HTML and wait for an attack. We'll see.

I know if you don't know anything about HTML none of that means anything to you, and that's fine. You have your own strengths, dear.

Also, come to the Christmas Show! I command you.

Seems I'm all about the bossing around today.

The weekend was good.

On Friday I went with a group to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding. See this movie. I command you. So funny, and so sweet. And totally makes you wish you were Greek.

Saturday, I went to lunch with my dad, and then I got a new watch battery and new shoelaces! If you have ever been a starving student, you understand how thrilling it is to be able to afford things you actually need. My shoelaces were falling apart, and obviously, my watch had stopped. I also got some Dr. Martens's leathercare and now my shoes look {almost} like new. Yey!!

Davistreet played at 106 West in the evening, and then me and my crüe convorted around Winder, visiting both Waffle House and Walmart. That's what there is to do in Winder. But it's fun.

Today I rehearsed my numbers for next week's Christmas program. Everyone come out!!! There are going to be lots of special guests. Then my fam drove me back to school, and here I am.

Classes tomorrow, 2 finals on Friday, then one more on the 17th. Just gotta push through this last stretch.

Off to get my beauty sleep!!!

P.S. Evolution Box Set — IwantthisIwantthisIwanthis.

I'm a sellout. For you pasting pleasure:

1.LIVING ARRANGEMENT? College dorm. One room that is my kitchen that is my living room that is my office that is my bedroom. And I have a roommate.

2.WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? 'Blood and Gold' by Anne Rice

3.WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Flaming "OPIUM" and "www.jumplittlechildren.com", and a fireball in the background. I can tie anything back to Jump.

4.WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE BOARD GAME? Chess. Really.

5.YOUR FAVOURITE MAGAZINE? Flagpole & Wired.

6.FAVOURITE SMELL? I'll just go with Patchouli. But there isn't just one.

7.FAVOURITE SOUND? Haha. I'll be irritatingly broad — MUSIC!

8.WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? regret

9.WHATS IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE
MORNING? my body is a mindless drone which moves independently about my room resetting alarms and hitting snooze buttons with one mission: more sleep. My mind doesn't wake up until about 20 minutes after my body.

10.FAVOURITE COLOUR? black and blue.

11.HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? I'm all about screening. If it's my dorm phone then they aren't calling for me anyway, and if it's my cell I gave someone the number because I wanted them to call me, so I actually do answer, if I'm not indisposed.

12.NAME OF FUTURE CHILD? IF I have children, they will name themselves. I don't mean that they won't have names until they start talking, I just mean when I see them, I will know. IF I have children.

13.MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE? Cynic's answer: Money. It makes the world go round. And even though you don't have to be insanely wealthy you will always need some amount of money.

14.FAVOURITE FOODS? Pizza. Croissants. Chocolate milk. Gummy bears. Brownies. Snelling's cream of spinach soup. Yum.

15.CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA ICE CREAM? Chocolate.

16.DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE FAST? Yes, I do. But only when I'm by myself and can turn up the radio really loud. And even then I stay nervous.

17.DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL? Lately I've been using Sam the Cow for my pillow.

18.STORMS-COOL OR SCARY? big thunderstorms are awesome, as long as you don't have anywhere to go. Even then they are not scary, just uncomfortably wet.

19.WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? I still don't have one. I think I'm better off, actually.

20.IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON DEAD OR ALIVE WHO WOULD IT BE? My birth mother. — I kid!! I have all the people I need right now. New people will be sent to me when I need them.

21.FAVOURITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK? um I have a few. Bacardi and Sprite, Jack straight (but chased!), Everclear and Coke.

22.WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? Pisces

23.DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? not any broccoli. Ever.

24.IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED WHAT WOULD IT BE? I would actually like to own a record store. I think that would be fun. It would give me a lot of time to design websites too.

25.EVER BEEN IN LOVE? nope. You always think you are at the time. Oy.

26.IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? I hate that question. First, if they want to ask an optimist/pessimist question, fuck, they should just ask it. Second, no one is really either, so it makes the whole thing moot. You know what I'm saying? Fuck.

27.FAVOURITE MOVIE? Three Amigos, Waking Life, High Fidelity, Almost Famous, and all Brat Pack movies.

28.DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? nope but I don't hunt and peck either.

29.WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? A plastic under bed box containing music posters.

30.FAVOURITE NUMBER? 5,693,312

31.FAVOURITE SPORT? soccer. For watching.

32.SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU: Sam reads things when I send them, and therefore knows the correct address to which to send her e-mails, you wankers.

33.NAME A PERSON WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? I don't play favorites.

34.NAME A PERSON WHO IS LEAST LIKLY TO RESPOND? everyone. I just called everybody wankers, for chrissakes.

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By the way, if you didn't get this in your e-mail it's because I don't have your address in my Outlook, or I don't know you. If you are feeling left out and want my silly surveys, leave a comment with your address so I may add you, please. :)

A beer truck's roof was peeled off under a low bridge and beer flowed into the streets.

And the people rushed the streets and licked the pavement.

Well, not really. But when I saw the headline on CNN's news ticker thingie, that's the mental image I got. Doesn't that make the the story at least a little more interesting?

Speaking of mental images, we had one of those 'special dinners' at the dining hall today. You don't need to know much except it means food even better than our day-to-day food. So I'm almost at the end of the line, near some casseroles, the guy behind me sees said casseroles and vocalizes loudly,

"Oh my ggggodddd, this is amazing, wow. Oh my god."

For some reason I was the only person who smiled and giggled playfully at the display, while everyone else just averted their eyes, as if they were embarassed for him. Maybe it's because it sounded exactly like he had an orgasm right there in the dining hall.

At least that's what it sounded like to me.

He must have been starving.

It's a JLC IE Skin!!!

Not the most sophisticated thing I ever did, (Jay's and Johnny's faces are under buttons, bah) but still, pretty neat.

(If you want to skin your browser it's not very hard, but involves some steps. Contact me.)

This is strange, yes. However, being a cook, I'm the only one so far to notice it's directly related to this, if not endorsed by them. Same logo, and repeated images of soy sauce. Doesn't take away the surrealist element of it though.

All through US History I had Led Zeppelin playing in my head. Class went something like this:

"The US's global power structure is 3 dimensional."

Wanna tell you about the girl I love
My she looks so fine...

"The military power is unipolar, where the economic power is multipolar."

...She's the only one that I been dreamin' of
Maybe someday she will be all mine...

"Under Clinton we has successes like NAFTA, NATO expansion to Eastern Europe, and brokering peace agreements in the Balkans. Clinton foreign policy was internationalist in orientation."

...I wanna tell her that I love her so
I thrill with her every touch
I need to tell her she's the only one I really love...

"Post 9/11 we see the Bush doctrine on September 20th, in which he states, 'You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists.', indicating that neutrality is not acceptable."

...I got a woman, wanna ball all day...

"There is new doctine of preemption, which is anti-containment. The US may strike first countries that had not yet acted aggressively outside thier own borders."

...I got a woman, she won't be true, no...

"The Axis of Evil is identified as Iraq, Iran, & North Korea. This is because of thier weapons of mass destruction and support of terrorism."

...I got a woman, stay drunk all the time...

"Meanwhile, the Bush administration is split into three camps: realist unilateralists, the neoconservatives, and moderate multilateralists. Camps 1 & 2 are united by 'hegemonism' and emphasis on 'hard power', which is this case means military power."

...I said I got a little woman and she won't be true...

Well, it was actually Veblen covering Led Zeppelin playing for me.

I only have ONE US History class left, thank the gods. I feel like ripping my arm off sometimes just so I have something to throw at my teacher and freak everyone out a little. Make the room a little livelier. It's soooooo boring.

Plus he never calls on me when I raise my hand with an answer. My inner dork weeps. Bastard.

Well, it's December. ::cough, cough:: If you haven't visited my main page you should go, just for the snow. Also, the Winamp list is now is real time and set to auto refresh, so if you are interested in my varied and not at all music-snobby taste that is the place to be.

Heather's visit was awesome. She fills me up with all kinds of hope and enthusiasm. Talking to her makes me feel like I can kick ass at anything I do, because she is a fountain of unconditional praise and encouragement. It gets hard staying at my house because there is a lot of negative energy and there is a tendency to be brought down. Between Heather and Sarah I survived Thanksgiving!

I ripped off the footnote trick from this woman, but it's an homage. She's just so inspiring. I don't believe she'd mind.

One week of classes, then exams. Not long left. I can't wait.