About

Oh hai.

Hello, my name is Jennifer.

I play a lot of video games.  World of Warcraft, Team Fortress 2, and Left4Dead are my main passions for the moment.  I'm a PvE fireballing blood elf mage in one of the top ranked Horde guilds on the retardedly low-populated Khaz Modan server.  I also have a horribly undergeared undead holy priest alt.  You can look me up on Steam if you have either TF2 or L4D; I'm usually up for a game. RPGs are my big passion and, at the age of 14, I bawled when Aerith died in Final Fantasy 7.  Twelve years later, it still makes me sad.

I will cry at tragic video game plots.

Netflix tells me that I like "violent" movies.  Thanks, Netflix.  If you're wondering, I think Fight Club, Kill Bill (Part 1, in particular), The Royal Tennenbaums, Pieces of April, and Slumdog Millionaire are all amazing films.

I rarely cry at movies.

I'm also still in college because I dropped out previously.  During my time as a college drop out, I was employed at a mental institution for emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.  Imagine a mixture of Girl Interrupted, Garden State, UFC fighting, COPS, Law & Order: SVU, and the delinquent child cast of Oliver on psychotropic meds and you have a good idea of my time there.  Then I worked at a chemical dependency detox center for a while.

My degree is in psychology with a focus on addictive disorders and recovery.  I counsel people sometimes.

I laugh insanely loud.

Lubbock TX is my home, and while I used to resent it greatly, I've grown to really enjoy living here and sort of fear having to move once I graduate if I can't find a job.  I'm not too terribly worried about it though because I believe wherever I end up is where I'm really meant to be.

I have the most amazing boyfriend on the face of the planet.

I really like alternative/underground comic books and am developing a growing appreciation for manga and certain genres of anime.  I did this 24-hour comic book challenge where the goal was to conceptualize, write, and draw a 25 page comic all within the span of 24 hours.  I made it to page 17 and would have finished but I picked an annoying and involved drawing medium.  I was happy with how the 17 pages turned out though.

I love dry red wines and a good ale, stout, or wheat beer even more.

I get really excited when people are into or interested in the things I like.

I'm learning how to play the drums.  One of my awesome friends gave me his old kit.

I have awesome friends by the way.  Everyone says they have awesome friends, but I'm sure if there was some sort of tangible awesome ranking match that one could enter their friends in, mine would win.

I'm one of those annoying people who thinks their taste is music is impeccable and I will road trip across the country and then some to see my fav bands/singers.  I dig Sleater-Kinney, Tegan & Sara, Brody Dalle, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rancid, Thao, Joy Division, The Misfits, DeVotcKa, Metric, Feist, and a whole lot of other things.

Books, movies, comics, and video games about zombies are of great interest to me.

I like a good cigar on the rare occasion.

I really dislike talking on the phone; I'd rather you text/email/facebook/IM me honestly.  I have the bad habit of abruptly ending phone conversations with a very quick "okaybye*hangup*" or a "okay I'm done talking now - the end, goodbye *hang up*" - long conversations have to take place face to face.

I stayed in a one bedroom, one bath apt for one weekend in Indianapolis, IN with fourteen other people I had never met before and only interacted with off the internet.  It was amazingly cool and I still keep in contact with a good deal of them.  I try to meet people I socialize with on the internet whenever I can, given I don't think they're stalker or rapist material.

I don't know how to swim.  At all.  In the least.

I know how to knit though, if that counts for anything.

I love Jesus and go to what I sincerely believe to be one of the greatest community and service-oriented churches this side of the country.  God is an amazing and consistent and wonderful God and I am completely in love with Him.

I always say I'm going to take part in NaNoWriMo, but never do.  I wanted to be a fiction writer in my early twenties and then an artist and now I am neither really, though I still enjoy the two.  I like to create things and am sort obsessive about things I make being aesthetically pleasing.

Ironically and in spite of everything else that I am, I've often been told I'm pragmatic.

I like making origami.

I wish I had more time to read.

My right ring finger is horribly crooked and it bends weird.  I broke it when I was younger.

I build computers.

I really like hugs but am sort of awkward at initiating them.  I've gotten immensely better at this in the past year though.

I freakin' LOVE my birthday and it's on April 14th, if anyone was wondering.

I'd rather have someone be brutally honest with me rather than try to placate my feelings.

I enjoy all Asian food - Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Thai, Singaporean, etc.  If I had to pick a favorite though, I guess it would be Thai.

I cave in too easily to family obligation and I blame that as a result of my traditional Hispanic upbringing.  I'm not a big fan of Mexican food, by the way.

I think I fall into that category of girl that you'd take home to your mother, if you and she are still on speaking terms.

This site will be a lot of things, as I think I'm a lot of things.  It's mostly for me but I'm inviting anyone who wants to read it as well.  If there's one thing you should take away from this I suppose and try to remember about me is that I like apple pie.  A lot.  It's really the best way to get me to be your friend and I'm open to bribes involving apple pie as the payoff.  Like phone conversations, I'm often bad at ending posts and rants.  With that said, I'm done talking now.

The end.