Laura Lee
Basics...
- Birth date: May 3, 1988
- Gender: Female
- Roots: German, Lebanese, Scottish
- Appearance: 5'6" / very long, curly brown hair / greenish eyes / tattooed!
- Personality: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - INTJ (Introverted, intuitive, thinking, judging)
- Marital status: With Joshua (since 7/16/07)!
- Religion: Atheist
- Politics: Very liberal
- Diet: Vegan
- Orientation: Bisexual
- Occupation: College student (Environmental Studies and Political Science); animal rights activist
General interests...
Animal rights, environmentalism, rock and indie MUSIC, JOSHUA, my pets, tattoos, Monk, Wall-E, arts, love, vegetarianism, veganism, vegan cooking, Henry David Thoreau, civil disobedience, snails, nightlife, the moon, secrets, liberalism, organization, nonconformity, sewing, crafts, movies, figure skating, webdesign, manatees, politics, mail trucks, originality, RAIN, nature, weather, mushrooms, stars, fire, photography, millipedes, bagpipes, poetry, reading, mysteries, long hair, eyes, freebies, coffee...
Music...Our Lady Peace, Finger 11, Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Tegan and Sara, Metric, Shiny Toy Guns, Lenny Kravitz, Nirvana, Nightwish, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Coheed and Cambria, Snow Patrol, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mika, Queen, Goo Goo Dolls, The Hush Sound, The Calling, Staind, Evanescence, Anberlin, The Fray, Blue October, Switchfoot, Ratatat, The Beatles, John Mayer, Revis, Flyleaf, Nelly Furtado, Nickelback, Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus, Count Your Blessings, Disturbed, Hellogoodbye, Lacuna Coil, Lydia, Panic at the Disco, OK Go, Jimmy Eat World, Adam Pascal, Rise Against, Saliva, U2, Mae, The Sounds, Keane, Green Day, Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews, Plain White T's, 12 Stones, Matchbox 20, Say Anything, Chevelle, 3 Doors Down, Lostprophets, Crossfade, Dashboard Confessional, Rob Zombie, Enya, Foo Fighters, Seether, Nine Inch Nails, Shinedown, Within Temptation, Smile Empty Soul, Breaking Benjamin, System of a Down, Serj Tankian, Daughtry, Emilie Autumn, Regina Spektor, Stone Sour, The Scene Aesthetic, Gregory and the Hawk, The Shins, Kimya Dawson, Adele, 10 Years, Avril Lavigne, Dido, Coldplay
Movies...Wall-E, Earthlings, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Rent, Thirteen, Crash, Dirty Dancing, Save the Last Dance, Meet the Parents, Lilo and Stitch, American History X, The Lion King, A Beautiful Mind, Across the Universe, The Village, Saw, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Harriet the Spy, The Road to El Dorado, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, National Treasure, The Salton Sea, The Butterfly Effect, Jumanji, Paulie, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, The Power of One, The Missing, Mr. Holland's Opus, Babe, The Neverending Story, Bingo, What Dreams May Come, Frequency, Star Wars, O Brother Where Art Thou?, My Girl, Gattaca, Silence of the Lambs, The Upside of Anger, V for Vendetta, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shaun of the Dead, Solaris, Traffic, Anger Management, The Invisible, Mr. Brooks, Juno, The Prestige, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Spiderwick Chronicles
Television...Monk, Friends, The 4400, Heroes, The L Word, Law and Order: SVU, Big Love, The Office, South of Nowhere, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Invasion, The Wonder Years, House, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Boy Meets World, 7th Heaven, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Catdog, Animal Planet
Books... (Alphabetical by author)
- Baldacci, David - Wish You Well
- Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles
- Brown, Dan - Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, Deception Point, Digital Fortress
- Cameron, Eleanor - The Mushroom Planet Series
- Dahl, Roald - The BFG, Matilda
- Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Grogan, John - Marley and Me
- Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
- Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia
- Milne, Carly - Sexography
- Orwell, George - 1984, Animal Farm
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter Series
- Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Steig, William - Abel's Island
- Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men
Tolkien, JRR - The Lord of the Rings
- Unknown - Go Ask Alice
- Walsh, Jill Paton - The Green Book
- Wells, H.G. - The War of the Worlds
- White, E.B. - Charlotte's Web
- Wiesel, Elie - Night
- Wrede, Patricia C. - The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Quotes...
- "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." -John Muir
- "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." -Henry David Thoreau
- "I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." -Abraham Lincoln
- "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." -Paul McCartney
- "For every action there is an equal and opposite government program." -Bob Wells
- "Faith is but a birthmark with which we are born, an impalpable umbilicus to time and place, which we rarely ponder to cut." -Nick Tosches (In the Hand of Dante)
- "Live on; live it up today. This life's your cup, so drink it up." -3 Doors Down
- "Little snail, dreaming you go, weather and rose is all you know. Weather and rose is all you see, drinking the dewdrop's mystery." -Langston Hughes
- "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." -William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
- "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Gandhi
- "RAWR! That means I love you... in dinosaur." -Joshua
More about me...
My name's Laura Lee and I was born on May 3, 1988. I have very long and sort of curly brown hair that I will never cut. I have a collection of tattoos that is still growing, representing my passions and various aspects of my life (Pictures are available in the Gallery on the site). I'm an animal lover and a tree hugger and enjoy walking around outside barefoot. People have called me a hippie from time to time. I have been a vegetarian since the age of 12, and in 2008 I transitioned to veganism, which I love. I deeply despise factory farming and am shocked how few people actually give a thought to the processes involved in food production. I am hoping to dedicate my life to promoting awareness of the problems surrounding human exploitation of the earth and of other species. In the summer of 2007 I participated in the Greenpeace Organizing Term, traveling and organizing campaigns on issues such as global warming. It was quite a rewarding experience and secured my desires to become an activist. In general, I'm quite liberal in my beliefs and I can get very fired up during political discussions. I am particularly fond of Henry David Thoreau's ideas of civil disobedience and way of living. Also, I'm pretty much an atheist, although nature is my form of spirituality.
I have no siblings but always have had a great deal of pets, primarily rescue animals, including parakeets, cockatiels, a cockatoo, a rabbit, a millipede, a dove, a lovebird, mice, rats, dogs, hermit crabs, a hamster, fish, and snails, all of whom have touched my life greatly. I am introverted and do not enjoy being around large groups of people. However, I can overcome this if I get to know someone well or I have something important to say. I possess obsessive compulsive tendencies and am extremely focused on organization and cleanliness.
I have been with my Joshua since July 16, 2007, and he is my world. He believes in many of the same things I do and sees the world the way I see it. One day Josh told me that I pieced his heart back together, hence the heart tattoo we got together. We also have a hamster together named Mango who is our little baby!
My grandfather was my best friend as a child but he passed away of brain cancer in 1997; I think this affected a lot how I emotionally developed growing up, though I've always had a supportive family. Going to college helped me grow out of my shell a lot, because I used to be quite the opposite of adventurous. I attend Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia and am majoring in Environmental Studies and Political Science. The school itself is quite tiny and conservative, but I think it motivated me even more to overcome obstacles and speak out for my beliefs.
I love creativity and I'm trying to learn to play bagpipes. I can also play bassoon and clarinet. Crafting, sewing, and crocheting are exciting for me; I enjoy creating unique things and selling them. Music helps me survive, especially rock and indie music. I wish I could be an artist... I am fascinated by any portrayal of ideas through writing or paintings or photography. The only sport I really have participated in is figure skating, but of course, I also enjoy outdoor activities in nature, like hiking or caving. I write Spanish almost fluently and I can speak a bit of German, but I want to learn so many more languages. My heritage includes German, Scottish, and Lebanese roots. I have visited Costa Rica and Slovakia twice, as well as the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Canada each one time... I love traveling and seeing the world. I am a left-handed person.
I enjoy website design and have been using HTML to design sites since the age of 13. I think the internet is a great way to share ideas. I am hoping with this domain to really open up and put forth my thoughts, beliefs, lifestyle, etc. for the world to see.
Things to do before I die...(A list I've kept for a number of years)
Become a vegan and live healthily. (April 2008)
- Become a steward for the environment to help improve humanity's sustainability.
- Publish a book that will change the world.
Participate in a real protest.
Fall in love forever. (Joshua, I love you forever!)
- Discover the meaning of life.
- Move far away and into the liberal north.
- Live to see a day with equal rights for LGBT individuals.
- Help abolish factory farming.
- Master Spanish.
- Ride on the back of an elephant.
Get a tattoo of a snail. (May 6, 2006)
- Go hang gliding, paragliding, AND parasailing!
- Swim with manatees.
- Be an extra in a movie.
Beat the expert level of Minesweeper. (September 3, 2005)
- Learn to play bagpipes. (In progress)
- Become flexible enough to do the splits.
- Visit as many countries as possible, including something on each continent.
- Learn German and speak it with my grandmother. (In progress)
- Have a pet armadillo and then a potbellied pig.
- Save someone's life.
- Win a prestigious award.
- Invent something useful and acquire a patent.
- Make a salary large enough to live comfortably.
- Meet Tony Shalhoub (and offer him an individually wrapped toothpick).
Attend a concert for one of my favorite bands. (Paramore - April 26, 2008)
- Solve a crime.
- Participate in a figure skating competition and win an award.
- Drive a mail truck.
- Overcome my social phobia.
- Acquire a hybrid vehicle.
Stop biting my nails... for good!
- Dance... all the time.