Nicknames: Jenn, Olga, Shorty
Hometown: Falls Church, Virginia (aka the FC and Smalls Church)
Age: 26
Birthday: May 10th, 1982
Favorite books: She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb), Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris), Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver), Stones from the River (Ursula Hegi), The Brief History of the Dead (Kevin Brockmeier), The Ruins (Scott Smith), the Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling), A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket), The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold), The Broke Diaries (Angela Nissel), Tell No One (Harlan Coben), Eating the Cheshire Cat (Helen Ellis), Anne Lamott's non-fiction, anything by Dean Koontz, Jodi Picoult, Karin Slaughter, and Henri Nouwen
Favorite TV shows: Veronica Mars, The Office, Heroes, The Amazing Race, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Alias, Arrested Development, Buffy, Project Runway, Survivor, Lost, Top Chef, General Hospital (my guilty pleasure)
Favorite movies: Ocean's 11, Best in Show, While You Were Sleeping
Favorite songs: "Goodbye to You" (Michelle Branch), "Find Your Way Back" (Michelle Branch), "Full of Grace" (Sarah McLachlan), "Gloomy Sunday" (Billie Holliday/Sarah McLachlan), "Yesterday" (the Beatles), Eva Cassidy's version of "Songbird"
Favorite actors: George Clooney, Victor Garber, Will Arnett, Anthony Stewart Head, John Krasinski
Favorite actress: Nancy Lee Grahn, Kristen Bell, Amber Tamblyn, Jennifer Garner, Amy Adams
Favorite singers: Michelle Branch, Eva Cassidy, Sarah McLachlan
Favorite CDs: Hotel Paper (Michelle Branch), The Spirit Room (Michelle Branch), Eva by Heart (Eva Cassidy), The Eleventh Hour (Jars of Clay)
Favorite plays: You Can't Take it With You, Much Ado about Nothing, The Women
Favorite soundtracks: Love Actually, Moulin Rouge!, Shine, "Once More, With Feeling" (aka the musical episode of Buffy)
Favorite poet: T.S. Eliot
Favorite number: 47 (that's for you Alias fans out there)
Favorite store: Old Navy
Favorite color: Yellow
Favorite word: Defenestration (the act of throwing someone or something out a window)
Favorite movie ending: The Wedding Singer
Favorite love songs: "Every Time I Close My Eyes" (Babyface) and "Here with Me" (Dido)
Songs on my iPod: "All These Things That I've Done" (The Killers)
"Before He Cheats" (Carrie Underwood)
"Breathe" (Michelle Branch)
"Chemicals React" (Aly & AJ)
"Crazy People" (The Wreckers)
"Desperately" (Michelle Branch)
"Find Your Way Back" (Michelle Branch)
"The Good Kind" (The Wreckers)
"Goodbye to You" (Michelle Branch)
"How" (Lisa Loeb)
"How Can I Keep from Singing?" (Eva Cassidy)
"In the Waiting Line" (Zero 7)
"Intervention" (Arcade Fire)
"Leave the Pieces" (The Wreckers)
"Love Me Like That" (Michelle Branch)
"Monster" (Meg & Dia)
"Move Along" (All-American Rejects)
"Never Again" (Kelly Clarkson)
"Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" (Jet)
"Read My Mind" (The Killers)
"Songbird" (Eva Cassidy)
"This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" (Fall Out Boy)
"Tuesday Morning" (Michelle Branch)
"When You Were Young" (The Killers)
"Where are You Now?" (Michelle Branch)
(I had a lot more songs until iTunes CORRUPTED my iPod and I lost them all, including Kelly Clarkson's "Up to the Mountain," which I loved and which is NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Grrrrrr.)
