Jenna's House of Idiosyncrasies Version 10.0 [Focus.]

It is pretty bold of me, I know, to assume you were deliberately seeking me out. However, considering the search engines haven't even found this at once very old and very new site, I can be pretty confident that's why you're here. Because you were looking.

Or you asked me in person where all my writing went. Either way.

I moved this site off of jennatollerson.com and made that page a stark, simple, one page directory of the things I want people to see first. I have often gone off on long, oratorical screeds about how there is no point hiding anything, how it is best to be your own publicist and make public the dirt before someone else does.1 However, having a dot-com that bears my name meant no matter what I did to push it down, it always appeared at the top of search results. And no, I'm not uptight, and I don't care if people read the sometimes dark, sometimes funny, sometimes melodramatic rants and raves I've put down here for the last seven years.

I just don't want it to be the first thing they read.

I was explaining to someone the other day that practically my entire business is built on the sheer force of my personality. Its about building trust, letting people see that you are easy to talk to, and a pleasure to work with, and responsible, and available. And its a lot easier to get people to accept how nutty you truly are after you have proved those things first.

This site is not a secret. Its just no longer the centerpiece of my online presence. Which is just as well. I have gotten terrible about keeping it updated.

1. 1. I'm not the only one who feels this way.