Janie Posted:

And can I see your lab? It sounds cool, you have a lab of your own. How old are you? Did you just learn all of this on your own? Seriously, do you guys have any food around here?

*Looks at watch*

[muttering] Wow; I’m going to have to order some new pbumionflower seeds. Apparently my home-grown specimens have lost some of their potency. She should be mellowed out by now. [/muttering]

Sigh… No, you cannot see my lab. It’s got to remain pristine. Besides, there are a lot of delicate things in there, and you seem a little… prone to excitement. I can’t have you breaking anything.

I’m 17 years and 8 months old. I skipped a few grades in school, so I’ve just finished my second year of college… well, sort of. I had to leave before the end of the year. What? NO, I did NOT flunk out. I LEFT. There were… some questions about the legitimacy of my hobby, that’s all. Anyways, I skipped a few grades in school, and then my stupid parents shipped me off to Carleton College. It’s this stuffy Liberal Arts bull**** school in Minnesota.

Yeah, I learned most of this myself. I had a garden when I was a kid, and I started breeding my own plants — at first just for their looks, but then I got interested in their uses and what I could extract from them. I wanted to take biochemistry in college, but then my parents shipped me off to that Liberal Arts bull****. I made it work to my advantage, though; I took courses in Anthropoogy (ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology) and History (medieval alchemy).