Tidbits on the occasional maintainer of this beautiful wreck? Indeed.

Name: Lauren
Age: 23
Birthday: March 4
Sun sign: Pisces
Hair: long and burgundy, when I bother to dye it
Eyes: disputably blue
Sundry appearance: typical quasi-bohemian white geekgirl
AIM: vlamidala
Y!M: vlamidala
LJ: vlamidala (do you see a pattern yet?)
Locale: New York (Gramercy); originally from Syracuse
Educational whereabouts: senior at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University; concentrating in computer science, molecular biology, and gender studies, graduating January '06
Life plan: dammit, I dunno. The professional urban incognito geek thing, I guess.

Partial to: 3am coffee; A Clockwork Orange; Alias; Ani Difranco; being an unrepressed geek chick; big headphones; black & white photography; Buffy; cheap wine; Cibo Matto; classical viola; corduroy; costuming; Daniel Radcliffe; the Darkness; Dispatch; Emiliana Torrini; expensive yarns; fancy underwear; Franz Ferdinand; Futurama; handknitting; Harry Potter; hoop earrings; Hope Of The States; HTML with heavy CSS; Jet; kahlua; the Kaiser Chiefs; the Killers; large dogs; the Libertines; Lord of the Rings; Mac aesthetics; Mountain Dew, particularly of the Code Red and Livewire varieties; nocturnalism; oversleeping; pesto; the Pixies; programming; random acts of stupidity; Razorlight; RENT; Sanrio; Sigur Rós; skeevy East Village bars; spending $18973789981 on concerts; Star Wars; Survivor; Tori Amos; Urban Outfitters; Vaughan Williams; video games (despite s.u.c.k.i.n.g); vodka
Avoidant: archetypal nonconformism; beer (unless previously inebriated); clean language; conservatism; credit card balances; Dawson's Creek; Fifth Ave culture; pop music, with exceptions; skim milk; smoking; student loans; teenybopping

Persuasion: bisexual
Status thereabouts: recovering
Beliefs: lacto-ovo vegetarianism; agnostic by default; past-tense straight edge; play before work is acceptable; work before sleep is necessary; financial moral fiber; intended truthfulness

Currently...
Learning: jackshit
Reading: um. yeah.
Working: Media Services at the Stern School of Future Businessmen Who Are Clearly Better Than Me
Viewing: "Lost"; "Alias"; "24"; "The Wire"; "Survivor"; "Angel"
Listening: Stars; the Decemberists; Franz Ferdinand; Kaiser Chiefs; Louis XIV; the Smiths; Ani DiFranco; Bloc Party
Missing: the ocean; Ghana; 54th St; integration in nature; China; innocent philosophizing; breaks from routine