Food

I am a huge foodie.  Actually, I am a normal sized foodie, which is shocking based on how much I love food.  I love expanding my palette, trying things I haven't tried; and eating foods that I've eaten my whole life done just a little differently.  Today, I got a loaf of Portuguese bread and made toast with honey and butter.  Comfort food.  I could probably sit and eat half a loaf like this.  Nothing beats comfort food.  We (Americans), all have a slate of the same comfort foods -- mac and cheese, ham and cheese sandwiches, pizza, chicken soup -- or some variations thereof.  But, we also have comfort foods that are entirely unusual to everyone else.  I happen to love celery, cream cheese and green olives.  My mom used to make it for me all the time, so it's one of my things.  Ritz crackers may be substituted in place of celery, but for a true comfort food, it's gotta be celery.  I have yet to meet anyone else who eats that; most people look at me like I'm nuts.  My friend eats avocados mashed with olive oil and salted heavily on a crusty bread.  I had never had that before, until he made it for me one day.  I have to admit, I liked it.  Prior to that, I had never enjoyed avocados at all.  Then there are comfort foods that, once you separate the emotional attachment to them, suck.  Yoo-hoo, the chocolate drink, is terrible.  Really.  But every time I see it I think I'll like it and buy it.    I think, in the end, the comfort is more important than the food.

Internet Communications

The internet has changed communication significantly, a bit for the better, a bit for the worse.  It has made the world smaller, you can have a casual conversation with someone on the other side of the world that you would have never had any other way.  Social networks have made that remarkably easy.  Video chatting, like skype, makes our chats intimate, brings us closer together with our friends and family, and having the screen between us makes us bold.  We say and do things we might not in person. 
On the other hand, email, chatting and texting makes us lazy and takes the emotion out of communication.  Since humans communicate very little with actual words and rely on things like body language and vocal tone to get our points across, there is much lost in written communication.  The handwritten letter still had an art to it, but the email is shorthand and short words and doesn't even have handwriting to analyze -- much is lost in it. 
Things like mass communication, directives or just out and out time killing are best done through the internet, but nurturing a relationship is still best done in person.

Intro

Hi, I'm Jen.  I'm from New England,  I am thoroughly uncomfortable posting information about myself on the internet, so I plan on keeping this intro fairly simple.  Posting personal information on the internet is a good way to cause yourself trouble in the future, and I try to avoid that.  I have to keep a blog running for class, so here it is.  I'm currently a college student in my junior year, hoping to be complete with my undergrad come spring of '12.  I'm a Leo, if you're into that sort of thing, which I'm not.  I hate the winter, although the snow has made it more bearable than usual.  I tend to travel a lot for both work and pleasure.  I just got back from FL.  I'm a huge fan of Disney World, so my boyfriend and I spent 12 days down there, messing around and overeating.  I think I'm going to run back down there the end of the month before my work ramps up and hang out with my family and hit the racetrack.  I'm an avid motorcyclist, so I try to drag bikes down south in the winter so I can ride and not freeze my butt off.