lauren

21 years old

Chicago, IL

Female

About

Basically, you can talk until you're senseless about some film and that's all fine and great, but I'd rather (if possible) just read the screen play or the book it was adapted from or listen to the soundtrack.

I think I'm a good midpoint between cynically pessimistic and cheerfully optimistic. I'm a realist but with optimist tendencies. I'm lucky, I'm happy, I'm... trying to sift past the static of the mundane everyday and make my life exciting.

I like songs with random french in them and boys that play the harmonica. I have a few pets: Elliott (my mouse), Harry (my cat who lives back home with my parents), and my sugar gliders Allira and Vishnu. AND! I'm getting a budgie soon, so I'm excited. :3

Some short term goals: get a new harmonica, get my site set up completely, go to a certain musical festival in Tennessee. (Bonnarooooooooo!~)

Some long term goals: law school in Philadelphia or Portland (Oregon), owning my own business (preferably an antique store), writing a novel that I'm proud to put my name on.

Since my book thing wouldn't fit or show up properly along the right:

Shakespeare, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ginsberg, Bukowski, Plath, Shel Silverstein, Nick Hornby, Kinky Friedman, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut (RIP), .

Realistic fiction, 19th century prose and poetry, political non-fiction, scientific non-fiction, books on theories of time, god, and relativity. Religious books. All religions.

Books: "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman, "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby, "A Long Way Down" by Nick Hornby, "A Man Without a Country" by Kurt Vonnegut, "On Love" by Alain de Botton, "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse, "Moses: A Life" by Jonathan Kirsch, "1984" by George Orwell, "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, "Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned" by Kinky Friedman, "God-Shaped Hole" by Tiffanie DeBartolo, "Bridget Jones's Diary" by Helen Fielding.

I read political commentary from both sides. I own both Al Franken and Anne Coulter books; Sometimes I feel like no one is right, it's just who can bullshit better. And that's why I'm a political science major. ;D