Jenna's House of Idiosyncrasies Version 10.0 [Focus.]

I have this observation to make: November downtown at 1 AM without a liquor jacket is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE.

Good gawd, I've lost all feeling in my extremities. And not in that fun floaty way you're thinking of.

The Subliminal Reassurances of Procedural Dramas, the Christmas lights in the trees on Clayton Street, pumpkin pie, the fact that I've finally found a reason to make this list again for the first time in weeks

Originally uploaded by Jenna Tollerson.

The thing that really sucks about having the flu this time around is even though I need nothing more than sleep, and even though I'm consistently drugging myself up to make sleep come easier, I'm only asleep for 3 or 4 hours at a time before stuffy nose or spiking fever wake me up again. It's been like this since I got home on Thursday night.

This is despite the fact that every time I'm up for more than half an hour I feel like I've been power walking for a whole day.

Besides being deathly ill for the past few days, things are not going well overall, hence the evident radio silence here at the House.

I've been meditating on why there are some things that have happened lately that I haven't told anyone about. Why I suddenly have become too uncomfortable to spin an amusing or alluring anecdote out of it all. I think the stress of everything is making me more susceptible to illness. That and the habitual binge drinking, the smoking, and the lack of eating much of anything. I kind of wonder how much is the cause and how much is the symptom.

This is really what has been keeping me up at night.

But I did just redesign your hub for all things Tollerson.

Yes, my Dad actually owns that domain. Smiths everywhere should now cower at the awesome power of a seven-letter three-syllable Nordic name.