Jenna's House of Idiosyncrasies Version 9.0 // Critical Darling, Commercial Flop

My business has been featured in D-Web Magazine, which as I understand it is based in New York. Fancy. The article about me (which is really just a simple Q&A) is here, and my logo is on the front page twice. All at least marginally exciting, one must admit.

A few things:

• I am so totally ready for the universe to stop beating me up. I get it! I've learned my lesson re: biting off more than I can chew/counting my chickens before they hatch/eating my green veggies/various other platitudes that ultimately mean nothing. The point is, I deserve to have something good happen in my life — it's been more than a year since the last Really Exciting Change, and I refuse to believe that at 24 years old things are due to start leveling out.
• I am sure I am not the first young geek to say this, but I really wish I could work for Connected Ventures, or at least hang out with the staff on a regular basis. There are many reasons for this, too many to enumerate here, the least of which is that they spend afternoons after work making dorky music videos that come out eerily well. My new favorite reason? I just discovered that the always lovable Zach Klein is actually a stone fox.
• My friend Becca, upon arriving at my apartment this time last week and putting away some beer to chill: “Your refrigerator might be the saddest thing I have ever seen.”
• To the bad cover band around the corner I'm being forced to listen to through my open window: you have no business covering Nelly. The only thing worse than hearing “Hot in Here” for the 400th time is having to sit through a rhythmless cover version.
  I think they will bust out some 50 Cent anytime now, and then my night will be complete.
• Twilight is this weekend. It won't be as quite as fun without beer and food money in hand, but there should at least be some sights to be seen and some drunk people to make conversation with.
• They are butchering Gavin Degraw now. I am sorry that I can't be more entertaining for you today.

My years of training as wallflower patient observer (before transforming into a social butterfly) have suddenly yielded a fantastic accomplishment. My “overheard” has been published on that bastion of Classic City culture, Overheard in Athens.

Drunk girl 1: She's carrying a hairbrush in her purse! I can't believe you carry a hairbrush in your purse!
Drunk girl 2: Doesn't everybody carry a hairbrush in their purse?
Drunk girl 1: Not me!
Drunk girl 2: Well, what do you carry in your purse? A flask of vodka and a pregnancy test?

Linky-link-link to the page, completely with clever title I can take no credit for.

Geek talk with CB; lunch with Mom and Dad, because they think everything I say is hilarious and they make me feel like a standup comic; Hot Kathy (Demo) by Apes & Androids; EveryTopicInTheUniverseExceptChickens.com; Defaced; the photos of Franca Alejandra (warning: some are NSFW);The Scissor Sisters on Passions (which you've got to admit is just fucking weird; twitter (like having an AIM "away" message without the annoyance of actually using IM of any kind); “You move Smoothly!: Cute five-year old breaks out moves, kicks out jams, etc.” Let My People Come, The Musical; “Slab City. Several hundred people spontaneously built a city on desert land that was owned by the government, and continued to occupy it for decades despite the absence of any services that are taken for granted in civilization, such as water, power, gas, sewage, garbage, phone, postal or governmental authority.”

Happy Valentine's Day.

Top 10 things that will not endear me to your Myspace profile, my new Holgaroid, TV on DVD

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

FOR SERVICES RENDERED IN THE AREA OF FREAKING. (SFW); after-work beer with my boy Brown; wallowing shamefully in self-loathing; remembering that next week is a brand-new week and I can do anything

coffee breaks with my crack headed coworkers; watching Freaks and Geeks on DVD (sometimes just to stare at James Franco); the feeling of using my brain (use it or lose it, folks); Fall Out Boy; Creed punk'd!; foolish Friday nights; feeling awake when I have to wake up at the crack of dawn

Jenna (2:31:06 AM): have you seen this?
Sarah (2:31:33 AM): haha, yeah
Sarah (2:32:06 AM): why?
Jenna (2:32:30 AM): I dunno I was just wondering
Jenna (2:32:43 AM): i got a referral from it, I didn't even know it was up
Sarah (2:32:55 AM): haha well
Sarah (2:32:58 AM): Jason Spatola saw it
Sarah (2:33:02 AM): and he was asking me all about it
Sarah (2:33:37 AM): and I was just kinda like, "yeah, I dunno know, that's my dad"
Sarah (2:33:44 AM): and it was really funny because
Jenna (2:33:47 AM): haha
Sarah (2:34:09 AM): he was like, "if I had your dad I would be asking questions all the time!!"
Sarah (2:34:18 AM): "I mean... there is just so much that is unexplained!!!"
Jenna (2:34:20 AM): hahaha
Jenna (2:34:22 AM): HAHAHAHA
Sarah (2:34:30 AM): haha and I guess it's really true... but like, we just are so used to it
Jenna (2:34:35 AM): totally