I am on lora-lasley-hawaiian time, which means ACCORDING TO ME, I'm always on time.

Lora is...

-A girl
-An Asian with non-Irish Irish freckles
-An occasional photographer (Canon d/SLRs)
-An always reader and writer
-The recipient of various national writing awards which ultimately mean Not A Whole Lot
-Not all that excited about being 22
-Not very good at remembering to go to the post office
-Once again a proud owner of a beastly little Russian Blue, who was born Jan. 2, 2006 and has won over the heart of every single person who has ever encountered her
-Back in San Diego as of April 8, 2006
-Formerly of Las Vegas (okay, Green Valley) where she worked as a stripper and where her mother is a cocktail waitress, her father is a blackjack dealer, and everyone lives in the casinos on the Strip because that is all there is to Las Vegas: sex, booze and gambling.
-A granddaughter, cousin and niece to oodles of people back in Hawai'i, where everyone lives in grass huts and surfs all day and dances the hula and then roasts wild pigs on spits on the beach every night.
-A Starbucks naysayer
-In favor of Firefox
-A frequent traveler
-A lover of traveling
-Such. A. Sci-Tech. Geek.
-Incapable of saying no to cheap books, green tea, diet de-carbonated root beer/cream soda, kittens, nonfat peanut-butter frozen yogurt and free massages
-Anxiety-ridden-level camera shy
-Probably never going to finish designing and uploading that stupid website
-Someone who obsessively and compulsively makes lists
-A champion list-loser
-Capable of being a deliberate pain in the ass
-A few compulsive behaviors short of being clinically OCD
-Disdainful of packing suitcases
-Working on Controlling Her Issues Without the Meds
-An insomniac 20 nights out of the month
-Clueless about make-up and make-up application unless by "make-up" you mean "ChapStick"
-Thinking about a million different things all the time
-A namer of inanimate objects
-A Mac user/lover/supporter/enthusiast
-A disgruntled PC user
-"Never-been-married"
-Someone who only remembers to floss the week preceding a dentist appointment
-Really good at faking oblivious
-Enamored with Rachel McAdams and pre-2006 Hilary Duff
-Watching you
-A maker-upper of words
-Suspicious of butterflies
-Hard-pressed to be found enjoying the taste of anything with alcohol in it
-Perpetually cold. Bring on the global warming!
-An otherwise active environmentalist
-A lacto-ovo vegetarian
-Fond of (the idea of) crisp apple slices and string cheese as a late-night snack
-Good at baking and cooking; yes, even when dead animal flesh is involved
-Irritated by widescreen displays that stretch and distort pictures
-Really digging the Bluetooth technology, excepting Bluetooth headsets
-The owner of four really cool plants: Petrie, Dingo, Rancho and Tiberon
-Cursed with a potty mouth
-A 2004 alumnus of the University of San Diego with a BA in English (minor in philosophy)
-Weird. No, scratch that: *super* weird.
-A former: journalist, pre-med/pre-law major, horseback rider, girlfriend, tennis enthusiast, avid sports follower (Raiders, Dodgers, Lakers, Real Madrid), ferret owner
-Maybe halfway done collecting the entire Newbery library
-Easily amused and enthralled and delighted
-Constantly using big and polysyllabic words when absolutely not necessary
-Able to remove a Starburst wrapper in her mouth using her tongue in under 8 seconds
-A political fence-sitter, but facing left
-Just kidding about the "watching you" part. Maybe.
-Not entirely sure how she feels about referring to herself in the third-person