Hi! I'm Laura. Let me start out by saying that I'm weird, and boring. Okay, maybe not boring, but my life is not full of adventure or even particularly interesting-- at least, not as it is right now. I live in an apartment with one of my guy friends. I like to read. I love music. What else, you say? Well...

I tend to think that any girl I like is too cute for me, so I don't say anything, which always screws me over. I love food, which also tends to screw me over. Ha. I've never lived with anyone who loves incense as much as I do, which is disappointing. I'm open-minded, and when I say that, I don't mean, "I pretend to be open-minded so that people will like me." I mean, "I'm open-minded." If you ask me to be honest with you, I will be completely honest with you, and I won't mince words, because I don't like it when people do that with me. That sweet sugar-coating is so overrated. I don't play spite games in arguments. I made that mistake when I was younger with my mom, and I will never do that again, so if you make personal attacks during arguments, I'm not interested. I love guinea pigs, but have yet to acquire one. I also would love to have a cockatiel when I have a more stable place of residence. Oh, heck, let's just go with a whole menagerie. Animals are sweet. And I don't like to dance. Please don't make me.

I have a crappy past. Alcoholic mother, zero social status in school, self-injury, self-hatred, depression, overeating, and suicidal tendencies. None except the first of these things is currently in effect, but all of them have impacted the person I am now. Therefore, I'm super-shy, and I don't smile a lot. It doesn't mean I'm unhappy or unfriendly, I'm just not good at making first contact, due to constant persecution by my fellow students in grades four through twelve, and the resulting caution. I'm pretty awkward socially, but once I get going, I'm not too bad. However, I need me-time. If I don't get time to myself each day, I get edgy and paranoidish. And, unlike someone I know, my personality awards are highly accurate, so do take note.

Also, I'd like to add: I'm fat. I weigh wellll over 120 pounds, so if that bothers you, then don't bother.

Right now I'm taking a break from school. I realized that I wasn't happy or motivated enough to graduate with the grades I should graduate with, so I'm on hiatus. I work at a pizza and sub place four to five nights a week, and that's my main source of income. I share an apartment with one of my good friends. Right now I'm just trying to find my inner desire to go out and DO something. I'm thinking maybe I'll become a postal worker, like my mom, and go back to school later. I don't know. We'll see.

Mostly, I spend my time sitting in front of the local coffee shop doing whatever. As my friend Dave says, "Doing stuff cuts into my sitting-around time." Sometimes I go to the library and use their (gloriously free!) internet.

locking doors, withstanding cold temperatures, thinking the right thing but saying the wrong thing, raising my eyebrows individually, some might say poetry, spacing out, awkward silences, inter-state spying, making sammiches, avoiding sweets, being alone

I don't know. Probably how big my boobs are. You can't miss 'em. That and the Celine Dion shirt I wear around. No, I'm not trying to be ironic; I really do like Celine Dion.

Anne McCaffrey is my favorite author ever, followed closely by Dean Koontz and Jonathan Kellerman. White Oleander is probably one of my favorite books ever. I also love Harry Potter, the His Dark Materials series, the Anita Blake series, Robin Cook, and science and archaeology magazines.

The Sound of Music and Pirates of the Caribbean and Pulp Fiction are a few of my most favorite movies, but I am by no means limited to that. A few more: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Princess Diaries, The Incredibles, The Secret Garden, Mercury Rising, Up, and Zombieland. Do not talk to me about the Harry Potter movies. All of them but Order of the Phoenix were devastatingly disappointing.

As previously stated, music is a constant, so anything that can make me smile or drop my jaw or feel good or small or important or competent or.. you get the idea. A few highlights: Tool, Muse, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Imogen Heap/Frou Frou, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Madonna, Regina Spektor, A Perfect Circle.

Current favorite food (snack, really): Those little Panda licorice chew-things. They're completely organic. Raspberry wins. However, I also like pistachio ice cream, mushroom-brie soup, seafood of any kind (except scallops), chocolate milkshakes, and six-inch tuna subs on wheat with lettuce, mayo, salt and pepper, and lots of onion.

1. Music
2. family
3. books
4. a stuffed animal or pillow to sleep with at night (I know, cheesy)
5. glasses or contacts
6. life as I want to live it

Marriage equality, and if we shouldn't just abolish marriage altogether. I think about how I really don't know that much anymore-- I used to, but somewhere along the way I lost my love of learning. I think about how inadequate I am at portraying my true self, and how cursedly awkward I am sometimes. I think about human nature, and whether or not I'm an idiot for believing that humans are inherently good. I think about appearance, and wonder why it's so damn important to so many people. And I think about whether I will end up as happily crazy as my mother is.

working or hanging out with a friend or playing RockBand or reading and/or being relatively tame.

I've secretly always wanted to sing as a profession, but I know my voice isn't good enough, and I don't have enough patience to learn how to play an instrument.

you want to/feel like it/are bored/want a laugh.