About

I'm Leah, I'm sixteen, and I have this really (not) cute thing for series commas. If you don't use a series comma (or an Oxford Comma for you Vampire Weekend junkies, a Harvard Comma, a whatever-sorta comma) I will give you super condescending looks from my head. I'm a blonde, my older brother is a redhead, and everyone else in my family has brown hair. I like to start a lot of books and never finish them. The only television series I acknowledge as worthy of my time are Doctor Who and Modern Family. I live on a horse farm with my family, so naturally I enjoy riding horses. I have an incredibly chubby chinchilla with a name I can't mention in a school setting and a cat that has spent 95% of her life hiding behind my bathroom door. My mother is a painter, my father is a musician who conducts orchestras, plays the clarinet, piano, guitar, flute, trumpet, and drums, while I am the child blessed with virtually no musical abilities. I laugh when I don't know what to do...which is actually quite a lot.

Something that geeks me out in the weirdest of ways is anything health related. I could seriously spend all of my waking hours getting lost in the WebMD diagnosis hole or convincing my mom to buy pesticide free/organic/non-GMO/HFCS free food item from the farmer's market or (the less wonderful but still wonderful) Whole Foods.
I have a personal best record of spending two hours and forty-five minutes in Whole Foods. I also have countless jars of dried herbs I keep convincing myself I'll use for holistic purposes. If you allow me, I will spent hours lecturing you on the importance of reducing your carbon footprint and the eighteen different things you can do today to help the environment.

If I could change one thing in this world, it would be for everyone to enjoy Chinese history. I think Chinese history needs a little bit more lovin'.

This is a photo of my chinchilla because he deserves much more attention than anything else that comes to my head.

My favorite link is, without any sort of questionable doubt, the wonderful and glorious StumbleUpon. My most stumbled interests include health, neuroscience, coffee, and metallurgy. I'm not really sure why metallurgy is up there, but it is, and you can never have too much information about the composition of metals.