Lauren+Burton

=Lauren Burton= Hi everyone! I'm from Germfask, MI. Yes, I'm a Yooper Girl. It's a five hour drive from my home to here. I have one older sister, who is attending Northern Michigan University, and a pet cat named Thomas. I've gotten lead roles in two school plays and was second chair flute in my high school's marching/concert band. I was also a reading mentor in Book Buddies, where I learned that I only like little kids up to a point. My best friend is still a senior in Newberry.

I graduated from Newberry High School, which was a one and a half hour bus ride from my house one way. My Junior year of high school I was approached by my local newspaper, The Newberry News, and asked to intern for them, which I have done for the last two summer breaks. I ended up doing everything from writing front page articles to taking out the trash. I also worked on two school newspapers (which were, unfortunately, short-lived) called __The Lamprophony__ and __The Jelly Donut__.

media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=Germfask,+Michigan&geocode=%3BFeqrwQIded7g-g&dirflg=&saddr=Alma,+MI+48801&f=d&sll=46.331758,-85.926819&sspn=0.999421,2.38678&ie=UTF8&ll=44.8129,-85.255685&spn=2.86798,1.34739&output=embed" width="230" height="195"This is how far away from home I am. Point A is Alma, and point B is Germfask. It's a five hour drive! My Favorite Websites:
 * FanFiction.Net— a place where anyone can submit fan fiction for practically any show, movie, book, anime, comic, etc. The entries range from a few hundred words to chapters upon chapters and can be funny, serious, touching, fluff, or any other genre.
 * One Manga — a place to read many different manga series online for free
 * A Teaspoon and an Open Mind — another fan fiction site, but this one is centered around the Britich television series Doctor Who and it's spinoffs (Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures)
 * I Can Has Cheezburger.com — website with links to Lolcats, FAIL Blog, Graph Jam, etc. Which is where people post funny movies, pictures with captions, or made up graphs

media type="youtube" key="q1YUWceI6GA" height="344" width="425" This is a video from YouTube that compiles some of the best FAILS from FAIL Blog.org, which can be found through I Can Has Cheezburger.com. This video was compiled by marowak1337. It contains some swearing, but was the cleanest example I could find.