the basics

name(s): lan, lanni, alanna, louise, “that girl with pink hair”
age: 19 (!)
school: the state university of new york at geneseo
location: a little suburb of rochester, new york that i call brighton
other: atheist, straight, liberal, white, non-drinker/non-smoker

 

about me

• i once thought i had mono for an entire year. it turned out i was just really bored.
• i know all the presidents in order.
• i have pink hair.
• i have 11 piercings, all in my ears (8 lobes, 1 double helix in my cartilage, and 1 rook).
• i scooter around on my black schwinn newport 50.
• i am one of the most athletic fat kids you’ll ever meet.
• i have one sister, liz, and two parents, tom and mary ann.
• i have a PhD in horribleness.
• i hope to teach third grade in the future, but for now i attend SUNY geneseo.
• i work for both the brighton school district and the brighton recreation department.
• i can do a rubik’s cube in about a minute.
• i am not a republican.

 

education

college: SUNY geneseo ‘11 (childhood education, mathematics)
high school: brighton high school ‘07

 

work info.

employer: brighton central school district
position: teaching assistant
time period: may 2008 - present
location: brighton, NY
description: i tell children to be quiet and i grade papers. sometimes i expertly read dr. seuss books aloud.

employer: brighton recreation
position: assistant director
time period: june 2006 - present
location: brighton, NY
description: i play a lot of dodgeball and four square and i start an unreasonable amount of boondoggles.

 

interests

rubik’s cubes, web design, music, dodgeball, macs, movies, dr pepper, scrabble, pocket gameboys, presidents, chuck taylors, facebook, driving, blue jolly ranchers, spirographs, sarcasm

 

current fandoms

tv shows: the office, pushing daisies, 30 rock, flight of the conchords
books: twilight, harry potter, the host

 

favorite music

abba, the aquabats, atom and his package, barenaked ladies, the beastie boys, the beatles, belle & sebastian, ben folds five, black kids, blink 182, blue october, brand new, bruce springsteen, built to spill, cake, catch 22, the cranberries, death cab for cutie, demetri martin, eiffel 65, the epoxies, the fiery furnaces, the flaming lips, flight of the conchords, the fratellis, freezepop, goldfinger, greenday, guster, harry and the potters, hellogoodbye, joy electric, the killers, kill paradise, kimya dawson, kraftwerk, led zeppelin, the mathematicians, mc lars, meatloaf, the mighty mighty bosstones, mika, modest mouse, the moldy peaches, moxy fruvous, mrs. skannotto, musicface, neutral milk hotel, no doubt, the offspring, patent pending, the police, the postal service, the presidents of the united states of america, pretty girls make graves, pulp, queen, the red hot chili peppers, red planet, reel big fish, regina spektor, rem, rockapella, save ferris, schoolhouse rock, the shins, simon and garfunkel, smashmouth, something corporate, songs to wear pants to, streetlight manifesto, sugar ray, they might be giants, third eye blind, tom petty and the heartbreakers, U2, under the influence of giants, vampire weekend, vengaboys, vice grip, violent femmes, the weakerthans, the who

 

favorite tv shows

30 rock, arrested development, bones, chuck, dr. horrible’s sing-along blog, flight of the conchords, house, it’s always sunny in philadelphia, jeopardy, ncis, the office, pushing daisies, rocky and bullwinkle, scrubs, the simpsons

 

favorite movies

anchorman, the breakfast club, batman, the blues brothers, emma, the emperor’s new groove, empire records, enchanted, fight club, hairspray, ironman, indiana jones, juno, little miss sunshine, monty python and the holy grail, office space, pride and prejudice, shaun of the dead, space jam, spiderman, star wars, this is spinal tap, toy story, transformers, wall-e, x-men

 

favorite books

angels & demons, the davinci code, the golden compass, harry potter, the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy, the host, twilight, and anything by dr. seuss

 

your questions, answered

“when did you first start dying your hair?”
in the middle of the seventh grade, if i remember correctly. i dyed it green with manic panic. over the years it’s been pink, red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, and purple (check out this post for reference). since then i’ve moved onto stronger dye, and for about 4 years now i have kept it pink (atomic pink to be exact!). it rocks.

“why do you write with no caps?”
i stopped using caps in august of 2005. i decided that caps made me think too much of school. i’ll save caps for homework assignments, and important emails, and fancy greeting cards. capital letters can bite me.

“do you have a secret talent?”
nothing too secret. i can do a rubik’s cube in less than a minute, i can name all the US presidents in order, and… well, those are really the only talents i have that most people do not.

“when did you begin designing websites?”
let me think, i believe it was back in october or november of 2003, the beginning of my freshmen year of high school when i was a few months into blogging. i was so annoyed by the ugliness of my blog that i spent days looking for templates and couldn’t find the perfect one. so i took one that i moderately liked, and read up on some html so i could tweak it. after a lot of reading up, i developed some web design skillz. now i know enough to keep up this website, and help other people with their’s. which means this is a nice time to pimp the designs section. hire me, and feel the satisfaction of supplying a young girl with money to eventually buy a car with. or at least a funny t-shirt.

“any secrets you want to tell?”
usually when people ask me this question i have them lean in real close and then i whisper in their ear, “i have pink hair.”