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Friday, February 21st, 2020
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12:27 am - ___________ OOC Post for ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jennahartigan
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plotlines // storylines // spam // voicemail // text // ooc stuff
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current music: Boys Like Girls // Love Drunk // Chasing The Stars
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| Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
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5:07 pm - No. 17 - Life is what happens to you while you’re working for your future.
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Shit.
Okay, this is really late, but thank you to everyone who showed up for my surprise belated birthday party (which was at The Victoria, Friday, July 9)!
In other news, anyone want to go out with me and Holly for pizza and beer and possibly something after that either Friday or Saturday? We're still looking for apartments and have decided that we need something to break the routine.
current mood: nerdy
current music: Love The Way You Lie // Eminem featuring Rihanna // Recovery
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| Friday, February 5th, 2010
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9:57 pm - Journal Example/Journal Entry 1
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It’s a little scary though that I’ll be graduating in June. Six months and I’ll have a BSc in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences. But I’ve wanted this for a long time and worked my butt off in order to get it. In some ways, it’s finally here. And in other ways, I’m so not ready for it. And then before I know it, the graduate classes will begin.
Holly’s been making noise about going up to NYC this weekend. She’s not telling me why which is weird. Normally I can’t get the girl to shut up about her reasoning behind anything. It’s probably a guy or she wants to justify a reason of why a visit to the Donut Plant is necessary. They do have some of the best donuts I’ve ever tasted but a weekend visit to NYC just for donuts?
No.
current mood:  blah
current music: History In The Making // Darius Rucker // Learn to Live
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9:32 pm - Biography
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HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY: Jenna Felicity Hartigan is the only child of the late Evan and Lily (Bethune) Hartigan. She was born on July 4th, 1988 at Lake Forest Hospital in Gurnee, Illinois. Her father Evan was a substance abuse counselor in Gurnee and her mother Lily was a nurse at Gurnee’s Lake Forest Hospital in the Radiology Department. Due to bleeding complications surrounding Jenna’s birth, Lily needed an emergency hysterectomy and thus was unable to have any more biological children after Jenna.
Around the time of Jenna’s second birthday, the Hartigans had almost finalized an adoption of a girl around the age of 3 months. However, a week before everything was fully finalized, the birth mother decided to keep the baby. This broke Lily’s heart and she told her husband that she couldn’t go through that experience again. Thus Jenna became an only child.
Being an only child, Jenna came up with numerous ways of entertaining herself – mainly reading, drawing the pictures she imagined, and watching movies. In her neighborhood growing up, there were three girls who were sisters around Jenna’s age named Hope, Theresa, and Natalie. The four became friends and were practically inseparable growing up. There were times Jenna wondered why she didn’t have any sisters, but whenever she asked her parents as to why, Lily would start to cry and Evan would mutter something about it not being possible. Jenna soon learned not to ask the question.
Her grandparents Hartigan lived in Middleton, Wisconsin in a condo that Jenna had free reign of whenever she came to visit. Her grandparents Bethune were an unknown people – Jenna mainly knew of them as the people who would send her gifts in the mail. Lily would occasionally talk about her immediate family but when she did it was a short conversation.
Jenna’s not certain as to when she wanted to become a speech and language pathologist, but she thinks it’s sometime in fifth grade when Tyler started to attend the class. He was deaf and used American Sign Language. Jenna only had him a classmate between fifth and seventh grades. At this time, she’s quite proficient in ASL. But before starting out at Sargent, she could sign her first and last names, say ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ and count up to ten thanks to Tyler.
Her home life was mainly quiet with her watching Illinois sports team games with her dad (she’s a huge Chicago Bears fan because of this) and baking and cooking with her mom (her Christmas cookies are legendary – or so say her roommates) and creating drawings to provide backgrounds for the four girls’ adventures.
But Jenna’s life came crashing down around her when she was seventeen.
She’d been babysitting at one of her dad’s coworkers’ house when her cell phone rang. Not recognizing the number, she’d ignored it since she was babysitting after all and Gina had strict rules about her children’s babysitter using a cell phone. But when it wouldn’t stop ringing, she answered it. After all, Hannah and Quentin were at a friend’s house.
She doesn’t remember much of the day after that. She remembers calling Gina, stating that her parents were in the hospital and she had to go there. She remembers Dave giving her a ride there. But no matter how hard she tries to remember, she can’t remember past getting out of the car in the hospital and to stepping into a room to say her final goodbyes to her parents.
Gina and Dave Rossi, Dave being Evan’s coworker, decided that Jenna had too much on her plate and they needed to step in and help. So the two of them arranged the funeral and burial and Jenna’s flight into Boston and then her ride into Revere. Lily and Evan Hartigan are buried in Warren Cemetery in Gurnee, Illinois.
Jenna had no idea on how to react or even interact with an aunt she barely knew and yet was the legal guardian of her. And she was still reeling from the death of her parents. Add to this, normal teenage hormonal changes and Jenna was all over the map emotionally. So, her grief and anger and confusion leaked out sideways and instead of turning to drugs and alcohol like some people would (thanks to her dad’s job, Jenna knew what would happen to her if she did this and she really didn’t want to deal with the consequences of that; it was enough to just deal with everything else), Jenna just made her aunt’s life difficult.
Her second class of gym at Revere High had a girl named Holly Thomsen come up to her and ask Jenna to please be her tennis partner because the guy who wanted to be Holly’s partner had a huge crush on the girl and Holly didn’t like him at all. Jenna agreed because Holly was quite convincing and pretty much everyone else had partnered up anyways. Holly would become quite an important fixture in Jenna’s life.
Her senior year at Revere High was Jenna sticking to herself, wanting to be back in Gurnee with Hope, Natalie, and Theresa and her parents. She didn’t want to join any co-curricular but with the move and the whole college thing up in the air, she joined RHS’s Health Professions Club and RHS’s chapter of NHS.
Two weeks after her birthday, she moved in with Holly who was also enrolled at Boston University, the same as herself. Due to a computer glitch their freshman year, the two were able to not live in BU’s dorms but were able to live an apartment the university had recently gotten for juniors and seniors.
It’s finals week their freshman year and Jenna’s just gotten off the phone with her aunt when Holly almost literally explodes at her best friend at the way Jenna’s been treating her aunt. The gist of the conversation is this: “Yes, you lost your parents in a wholly tragic way. Stop taking it out on your aunt. She and your grandparents are pretty much the only family you’ve got. And people have got it much worse than yourself. Get over yourself and go see a counselor because you’re so not dealing with grief.”
It took some time for this to sink in (and a massive ice cream confessional between Jenna and Holly) but Jenna did find a therapist who’s been helping her deal with her parents’ death, her grief, and the basic upheaval of her life. The therapist is also helping Jenna see that Ellie did not deserve the grief or pain that Jenna gave her. Jenna’s slowly starting to make up for it but knows it’s going to take time.
current mood: accomplished
current music: 'Wolsey Commits Suicide/Finale' // Trevor Morris // The Tudors
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