javajennifer | July 8, 2011
Justice isn’t a cold glass of water served in a pretty glass to the thirsty masses. Justice is the reluctant acceptance of an imperfect process that represents the best and worst of our legal system. As Casey Anthony spends a few more days in jail serving out the terms of her entirely too-brief sentence, the [...]
javajennifer | March 11, 2010
Sandra Bullock’s academy award win on Sunday came with the certainty of the red carpet itself. Her role in The Blind Side was, in every way, the equivelent of Julia Robert’s Oscar-winning performance in 2000′s Erin Brokovich: an adequate, if predictable portrayal of a stubborn woman, that involved dying one’s famous tresses from brown to blond. [...]
javajennifer | January 6, 2010
The temperature gauge in my car reads 3 degrees at too-early-in-the-morning as I make my way to the airport for a flight that few people know I’m taking. It’s been a rough few months and despite the freshness of the New Year, I find that I’m still licking wounds from 2009 when I approach the [...]
javajennifer | April 6, 2009
On the metro this morning I was surrounded by tourists. You can tell that they’re tourists because they ride the metro with a combination of fear and confusion. Fear that they are moments away from being the victim of a violent crime, they eye everyone with skepticism. Fear that they are going to get off [...]
javajennifer | April 5, 2009
Cat hair wafts from my 20 lb laptop at 37,000 feet. Unable to stay away from TS for longer than 4 days, I booked a last minute flight to Kansas City to snuggle into the crook of his arm to whisper and kiss. I’ve written exhaustively about the casualties of my divorce. Relationships that were [...]
javajennifer | March 9, 2009
How do you measure a waste of time? Pre-internet, if you needed to get licence plates for your car you actually had to drive to the DMV in some industrial part of town and sit in sculpted plastic chairs for hours waiting for a $6.00 hour employee from the Department of Motor Vehicles to call [...]
javajennifer | February 3, 2009
Yes, yes… I have self-esteem issues, blah, blah, blah and I know that when you rip someone to shreds you are revealing how little you like yourself, blah, blah, blah. But lemme just say this: I KNOW I look better than Jessica Simpson .
javajennifer | January 27, 2009
Patti Stanger, if you don’t know owns her own Matchmaking business and is the star of her own reality show called The Millionaire Matchmaker which airs on a channel I am happy to say isn’t included in my line-up of 13 channels. She’s also widely interviewed for women’s magazines and has made appearances on Dr. [...]
javajennifer | January 24, 2009
Toilet seats decoupaged with President Obama’s image. Jerseys’ with the number 44 emblazoned on the back and Obama in block letters across the front. Golf balls. Dinner Plates. Long Sleeve T-Shirts (3 for $10! the vendors shout) with the First Family across the front, outlined in gold sparkle-paint. Hats, hats and more hats eached more [...]
javajennifer | January 3, 2009
Returning to DC this afternoon had all the finesse of taking Tony Soprano to the ballet. My connecting flight from Phoenix to National landed early, ending the three and a half hours worth of abuse I endured at the hand of my seat captor, a long-legged surly fellow who did everything he could to make our [...]
