My name is Laurel. Actually, that's a lie, but seeing as this is the interwebz, I'm not exactly going to go around giving out my name just like that, tra-la-la. I am sixteen, going on seventeen, and I now have the Sound of Music soundtrack running through my head, which is just teriffic. (No, not really, if you're wondering.) I am pathetically short for my age, coming in at five feet one inch, and I haven't grown for four years. I have another account on this site, but it's purely dedicated to my het fictions of a certain fandom (Percy Jackson and the Olympians). This fandom's fanfiction has degraded to such a quality that I've very nearly come to tears, and have almost lost my inspiration to write for it entirely. My penname became entangled in that particular fandom, so I chose to flee like a very dirty child from a bathtub and settle in this nice, new account. (Well, new as of Sept. 12, '09. It won't be new for long, I suppose.)

This is the part where I do some ridiculous information session, isn't it?

Very well.

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans."

- Ronald Reagan

Name: Laurel. No, not really.

Sex: Female. Yes, really.

Age: Sixteen. Seventeen in approximately two months.

DOB: Somewhere in the year 1992. Good luck with that.

Place of residence: Currently? A chair in my kitchen. My kitchen is in a house in Chicago. My heart resides in New Orleans. (Try to figure that one out.)

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain

Top Five Quotes:

1.) "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

2.) "The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault."

3.) "When I have a little money, I buy books. If I have anything left over, I buy food and clothes."

4.) "To boldly go where no man has gone before..."

5.) "If your fandom doesn't have gay subtext, it's not a real fandom."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent."

- Victor Hugo

Top Five Songs:

1.) "Here Comes The Sun" - The Beatles

2.) "Suits Are Picking Up The Bill" - Squirrel Nut Zippers

3.) "Hate Me" - Blue October

4.) "Love You Much Better" - The Hush Sound

5.) "Daylight" - Matt & Kim

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

Top Five TV Shows:

1.) Star Trek: The Original Series

2.) Avatar: The Last Airbender

3.) Mythbusters

4.) House

5.) NCIS

"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."

- Robert Ebert

Top Five Movies:

1.) Star Trek (Reboot)

2.) Monty Python and the Holy Grail

3.) Ocean's Eleven

4.) Galaxy Quest

5.) Dogma

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

- Cicero

Top Five Books:

1.) The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2.) The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

3.) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

4.) Something From the Nightside by Simon R. Green

5.) Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett