Me

I guess people start the blogging process by introducing themselves and why they think they have something of interest to say. I'll focus on the who I am part now and the why I'm interesting (or not) later.

Most people call me Jen. I'm a 36-year-old, married, white female of average height and weight. I have no *obvious* defects or problems. I live with my husband and two cats in the San Fernando Valley. I grew up in Northern California, but came to LA for college (UCLA - rah rah) and made this forsaken land my home. I've earned degrees in Psychology, been licensed as an emergency medical technician (though I never worked as an EMT), trained in phlebotomy (gave a friend a great hematoma that had people asking her if she'd started slamming drugs), worked in an animal shelter, researched HIV risk behavior, and more. I am currently a professional bureaucrat, a word I can only spell correctly using spell-check, at UCLA. In my free time, I like to watch TV (current favorites are Heroes, The Biggest Loser, and So You Think You Can Dance), tend to my bitchy cat, sample new libations, hang with friends...the usual.

So that's me in a nutshell (I guess that saying means I'm the nut. Hm, I never thought about that before).