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

So on Friday, Kim Parker (one of my father's friend from high school, known to me for most of my life as "Auntie Kim") sang at 106 West with my father. And as I sat in the soundbooth manning the technical aspects while watching the show, it slowly occurred to me, listening to Kim sing, that she was probably the earliest influence on my singing style, so early that I can't even remember when she wasn't there. Before Billie Holiday, before Jennifer Nettles, before Sheryl Crow, and way before I finally discovered Janis Joplin (and really, what took me so long?), there was Kim Parker.

It's cool to be able to trace these things back.

The rest of the weekend passed mostly without event. Georgia lost to Florida, there was some family stuff not worth mentioning, I did my laundry, and then came home, to Athens. I missed it.

Back to school tomorrow pour moi. Everyone wish me luck. Break's over.

3½ weeks until Thanksgiving, yo. The bicoastal Tollerson sisters reunite. Ya'll lock up your sons.

Georgia Football is simply a spectacle you must behold. When I woke up this afternoon my quad was covered in visitors throwing footballs and cooking burgers and drinking beer. Tailgating.

I knew how serious it was last year, but living way up on yonder hill at Brumby made it difficult to experience the craziness first hand. I had to listen to fight songs and party songs coming through my window all afternoon. Walking to dinner involved navigating through the parties set up in the Rutherford parking lot, and on the way there I saw a news weather man—who I've now identified as Chris Holcomb—just walking past me with his son. And everyone (even the weather man) was wearing Georgia colors.

The whole thing is just very surreal.

Right now I have the game on, ESPN, and I can see the game happening while I hear it happening down the street from my building.

Let me tell you, what you hear on TV does not do justice to the roar that ensues on every score.

Even though I know nothing about football, I can see the score (21/7), and it actually makes me kind of happy that we are winning.

Imagine that.