Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Jenn's LiveJournal:

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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
1:30 am	. . . it's official. He's on his way down. I am . . . so nervous I've been dry-heaving for the past hour or so, and, just. Yes. He hasn't eaten, won't have slept, and probably won't have showered, but in a few short hours he'll be here. I'll be able to touch him again—something that seems minor, till you realize that I don't tend to touch people unless I'm really comfortable with them (. . . it's a boundary issue), and so I basically haven't hugged anyone or whatnot since he was down last. Nor kissed anyone, really, aside from one very stupid mistake. I . . . yes. God, I've missed him. I just hope everything works out OK. (wank away)
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
10:18 am	Oh God. Unless something goes horribly wrong, I will be seeing Zed TOMORROW. We said goodbye last night, because he was on IM briefly before he went to bed (God bless friends in Portland that don't mind him using their computers?), and instead of saying, "I'll talk to you soon" he wrote, "G'night. See you soon." and my brain melted as I realized that OH MY GOD that is totally true. :D So nervous. So very very nervous. But tickets have been purchased for VNV and for his trip down here, and everything should be OK. WISH ME LUCK. (wank away)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
12:00 pm	Hurray! Unless something goes wrong, Zed's tickets are bought and he'll be seeing VNV Nation with me next Friday. :D We have a place for him to stay, travel arrangements are worked out . . . should be good. (wank away)
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
1:28 am	Went to the Great Salt Lake this evening. Pics here. ( My two favorites behind the jump. ) I don't know where I picked up saying, "behind the jump" from, but I think it needs to stop. (wank away)
Friday, June 12th, 2009
1:29 am	I guess I'm going to be updating this after all. It's funny—I was thinking about it today, and how little I post on this site. No one really knows me here, and I dont' think even the people I have friended know a ton about my life. Sort of funny. So, umm. I suppose I'll have to start updating this more often? Whatever. If I'm going to, well. Quick primer, for those following along at home, or more specifically, a timeline of where my life is going/has been (because I only update once in a blue moon), and a cast of characters. ( Cut to spare your friends page. ) What's the news from your part of the world, oh Journalfen flist? (wank away)
Monday, June 8th, 2009
11:25 pm	I am gainfully employed again! My first day was today. Well, sort of. Contract work for someone specializing in reptile showings. Guy is very nice, all animals are very well-taken-care-of (he's working in tandem with one of the better vets in the valley oh em gee! they only feed prekilled whenever feasible, because they believe live is dangerous! they quarantine each new arrival for three weeks!) and well-socialized for what he does. Did a presentation at one of the local schools today, for their summer program, and it went fantastically. Since it is contract work, I need to keep track of how much I get paid and when, for TAX SEASON (dun dun duuuuuun), and it's not regular work . . . but it's at least interesting, and it pays decently. So, um. Yeah. :) (1 little wanka wank away)
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
7:36 pm	In which the internet (especially Twitter) is used for GOOD, not evil. :D Ben Templesmith is a comic artist, best known for illustrating 30 Days of Night and Fell. He's also behind a side project known as Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, and maintains an LJ and a Twitter: ben_templesmith, and Templesmith, respectively. As an artist, he's fairly protective of his work. Enter Club Dada, and the band Brutal Juice. You might note some similarities between the poster and one of the covers for Wormwood. aquaphase alerts Ben Templesmith, who updates his Twitter with it, the article praising the poster gets a sudden edit, and my faith in the users of Twitter in general is restored. Though I am wondering who in their right mind would want to piss off Ben Templesmith, because, ummm . . . (2 little wankas wank away)
Friday, May 1st, 2009
3:15 pm	I have a dreamwidth account. I'm on there as kickthehobbit. . . . yup. I'm sort of irritated—I included that as the first line of a longer post about how anxiety's been trying to ruin my life again, and the majority of comments I got were begging for invite codes. From people that don't usually comment on my journal. I don't care about how often you comment or not—I mean, come on, it's LJ—but if you're not going to comment for months at a stretch, then the first comment you break the silence with is, "Oh, cool, do you have an invite code?" that's tacky as Hell. I don't even care that it was on a post talking about anxiety. It could have been something where I talked about cooking or books or seeing David Bowie's bits last night in "Man Who Fell To Earth". If we barely talk on LJ, then, you know, maybe I'm not the best person to beg an invite code off of. Current Mood: Fan-Fucking-tastic (2 little wankas wank away)
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
12:36 am	It dawned on me that I haven't posted photos of myself here in . . . oh, ever. Since it's JournalFen, and this is a rather chest-y pic, I thought I'd put it up. So, er. This is what I look like. ( Cut for photo. ) (2 little wankas wank away)
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
4:05 pm	( Piece of really short fiction. ) I have another, longer piece that I'm taking in for workshop on Tuesday (I'm doing an upper division writing workshop this semester at school). I showed it to people on LJ, and the basic consensus was that A). After having revisedrevisedrevised it's basically done now, and B). I should probably try to submit it to somewhere like Asimov's and see if they'll take it for publication (it's short-ish SF, about 4K words). Normally I would go "pfft," and leave it at that, but the person that told me is not the sort that usually agrees with what I write being "good" (usually has suggestions to make as to what could be fixed), so it's a nice ego boost? I guess. I'm simultaneously looking forward to and dreading tomorrow. I have a presentation to do in comm, but we're doing quantum in physics, and I'm really enjoying it . . . and chem has been good lately, too. We'll see. Really looking forward to Tuesday, ridiculously so. That's when the workshop is, and the presentation on The Tent (Atwood's book of short stories). I'm happy with what I've written, even if the pretentious asshat in my class is probably going to rip into me about "what [he calls] tea-time dialogue" and the bitchy girl whose story about a female-only society I ripped apart is probably going to try to "get revenge" by pointing out the flaws in mine. Eh. Not to be OH GOD SO VAIN, but I'm a better writer than either of them. Bitchy girl tends to go off on these long asides that derail the plot and make absolutely no sense in context; pretentious asshat writes terrible dialogue and descriptions that don't make any sense, and on top of that, his characters all sound like forty-year-old men. So! We shall see. (wank away)
Monday, March 9th, 2009
12:36 pm	I took Heather with me to see "Twilight" at the dollar theater yesterday. Oh my dear sweet Christ, it was the best $2.50 I've spent in a long-ass time. I haven't laughed that hard at a movie in God knows how long. It was awesome. Heather laughed with me, too, which made it all the better. :3 (wank away)
Friday, February 27th, 2009
5:47 pm	If you are fifteen fucking hundred miles away, living in Ohio, and also depressed, lonely as fuck, and convinced that you're never going to get a girlfriend evar, and have been going on about how you're "so sad" that I had to leave? Telling me that you love me and that you think we ought to get married is NOT OKAY. Until last weekend, I hadn't talked to you in ten months! Seriously! GAH. God DAMN. I'm already in romantic limbo; I don't want you adding to it. (wank away)
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
11:31 am	Here we go again . . . I don't know if anyone here is a member of sf_drama over on LJ (kind of doubt it, actually), but if you are and the in-house wanking is getting you down, I've created a new comm. et_dramera. What sf_drama was intended to be like. (wank away)
Friday, February 20th, 2009
10:59 pm	A). I went to a reading last night, and ran into people I know from class. Who promptly told me that they're really sorry they missed my being workshopped, and could they please get a copy of whatever the Hell I brought in, because they really want to read it. They think, from my comments, that I'm probably worth reading. . . . damn. B). I'm considering submitting to this. I mean. What could it hurt? C). I really hate the fact that most of my friends live in Oregon/Washington. D). I threw up on a train platform . . . Tuesday? Yes. Tuesday. Typical period-y doom. I'm probably going to end up going back on birth control because of it, if only because heeeeey, I don't need that sex drive anyway (not like I'm seeing anyone right now), and it's probably better than puking every time my period comes around. Hm. E). I really need to start writing poetry again. F). Dammit. I really do miss him. :/ (2 little wankas wank away)
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
12:52 pm	And for all of my whining, someone on LJ randomly gave me paid time. What. (wank away)
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
1:37 am	( In which I whine about my LJ friends list. ) (6 little wankas wank away)
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
12:32 am	Huh. I just realized that the comment I left in the last fandom_lounge post (about Fables) probably makes me sound like one of the rabidly childfree. Er. No. Not so much. I don't particularly like Fables because I felt the romance between Snow and Bigby was rushed if not forced, and I haven't liked the side arcs about their children. They don't really seem to relate to the overall story, and they don't add much—I felt as though they were catering to fans more than anything else. I'm perfectly fine with children in GNs (I mean, Hell, I loved Blankets), just. Their children seem to be less actual characters and more plot device. (wank away)
Monday, December 1st, 2008
11:31 pm	Not that it really matters, but . . . Yup. Was at 19056 as of Wednesday; wrote like mad to get to 50K. Made it, with forty words to spare. It's TERRIBLE. But I finished, and that's all that counts. (wank away)
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
5:36 pm	Bwuhuh? I had a very "bwuhuh?" moment just now . . . was reading the zee versus zed wank on otf_wank and say someone say that chintimin was "asking for it", quoting what he'd said. . . . chintimin? is my best friend. Zed. I linked him at the zed not zee wank last night and he commented on how "it's zee, dammit!" but didn't mention that he'd commented in the post. Slightly surreal to see his name pop up in the comments, but I think this particular offense is forgivable. I mean, come on. His name really is Zed! (wank away)
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
1:23 pm	NaNoWriMo is at 11496. My birthday is in twelve days. I'm going to be twenty-one. (1 little wanka wank away)