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Lauren

I am here for Friends

About Me

"so this is my life. and i want you to know that i am both happy and sad and i'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
Lauren. 23 year old feeeemale. Southern girl. Book nerd. Future high school English teacher (someday...). Trouble. Sings in the shower. Drives around with the windows down and the volume way up. Fears practically everything. Falls for boys she can never (ever) have.
Likes: good friends, good music, good movies, honesty, cheesecake, silliness, park swings, summer nights, french fries, common sense, good grammar, and certain 4-letter words
Dislikes: vegetables, needles, spiders, snakes, heights, crappy music, humidity, people who TyPe LyKe DiS, bad spelling, my own impatience, meanness, and stupidity

My Interests

friends, music, conversation, books, boys, mixtapes, mix CDs, reading, singing, writing, postsecret, stargazing, sleeping, concerts, movies, stars, astrology, astronomy, Eddie Izzard, libraries, cloud-watching, dreams, doodling, Audrey Hepburn, English, literature, 11:11, Kurt Halsey art, love, love songs, piano rock, pretentious indie music, Stella (my ipod), developing inappropriate crushes, magic 8-balls, lyrics, poetry, weather, snow, Gerber daisies, sidewalk chalking, shopping, shooting stars, names, night, accents, ghosts, people-watching, hair dye, storms, shoes

I'd like to meet:

anyone who can keep my attention.

Music:

..DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE. brand new. jimmy eat world. something corporate. copeland. the format. the academy is... circa survive. spill canvas. bright eyes. mayday parade. muse. the audition. manchester orchestra. the receiving end of sirens. goodbye tomorrow/alive in wild paint. terminal (rip). damien rice. maria taylor. aqualung. annuals. guster. joshua radin. lots.http://www.recordnerd.com/lists/kismetchaser (this hasn't been updated in a while)

Movies:

..saved! garden state. donnie darko. sabrina (the audrey hepburn version, not the crappy newer one with harrison ford). roman holiday. pride and prejudice. elizabethtown. the labyrinth. across the universe. moulin rouge. the namesake. drive well, sleep carefully: on the road with death cab for cutie. high fidelity. love actually. about a boy. pirates of the caribbean. harry potter. the LOTR trilogy. (why yes, i believe i am a nerd.) little women. mansfield park. i'm also a sucker for chick flicks and disney movies.

Television:

..LOST. grey's anatomy. house. ER. lots of BBC america. doctor who. any of those ghost hunter shows (most haunted, ghost hunters, dead famous). LA ink. (secretly, the hills.)

Books:

..the little prince. the time traveler's wife. a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. the perks of being a wallflower. anything Jane Austen. Shakespeare (except the histories). nick hornby. neil gaiman.

My Blog

the proverbial straw...

the little things add up.  sometimes they add up to a lot.  and i feel dumb for even talking to anyone about the little things because they seem so stupid at the time, but when you write it ...
Posted by Lauren on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:38:00 PST

lightbulb!

i’m supposed to be reading for my psychology report.  instead i’m watching the holiday for the millionth time...and now i’m writing this. i was driving home from chattanooga thi...
Posted by Lauren on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:20:00 PST

no more...for a little while

i should be writing a paper for sociology.  or studying french vocab.  instead i'm here, writing this. need a break from...humanity, for a while.  people are mean and irritating and we ...
Posted by Lauren on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:11:00 PST

karma’s gonna get you

what's that saying?  life is [random percent] what happens to you and [random percent] how you react to it.  i have a feeling that it's 90% and 10%, according to the proverb, but i don't thi...
Posted by Lauren on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:04:00 PST

winter blues

feeling uncomfortable in my own skin.  want out, want more, want better.  want SOMEthing.  anything at all.  anything to make me feel different.winter always does this.  turns...
Posted by Lauren on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:50:00 PST

the way my head works

i'm so needy & high maintenance.  emotionally, i mean.  i wish i could be one of those effortless girls who just ooze confidence and success and don't give a damn about what you think.&n...
Posted by Lauren on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:24:00 PST

the boycott bandwagon

so i'm gonna jump on my soapbox here for a minute and tell you about something that's been irritating me.the boycott bandwagon.and i know you know which one i'm talking about.  the one that anyon...
Posted by Lauren on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:22:00 PST

good things come to those who wait...

...or not.i'm tired of waiting and hoping for good things.from here on out, i will always expect the worst.  that way, i won't be disappointed, and when something good happens, i'll get a nice li...
Posted by Lauren on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:26:00 PST

i want...

i don't want to live with this weight anymore, this terrible heaviness of heart that descends and traps me and makes it hard to think or talk or breathe or live.i need something else.  something ...
Posted by Lauren on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:17:00 PST

im so lonesome i could cry

it's been a really long time since i've found someone i've been interested in dating.  like...a long time.  i'm not talking about stupid schoolgirl crush type things, i've done those.  ...
Posted by Lauren on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:25:00 PST