For some reason, many visitors are intensely curious as to what kind of person would devote their time and energy to maintaining a page about entomophagy. Therefore, to simplify life for such visitors, I am providing a very brief description of myself. Please, feel free to run away screaming at any moment...

I am female, 17 years of age. My full name is Aletheia Price (or, at least, it was the last time I checked). I have been eating insects since the age of 13; originally, I took up entomophagy as a means of shocking my elders and betters (some teens dye their hair green, some start listening to heavy metal, some stay out all night partying...I ate insects). Entomophagy was most efficacious in this respect, but soon I became more and more interested in it, until eating insects became a full blown hobby. Not content to merely eat insects myself, I took it upon myself to make all my friends and immediate family members aware of the joys of eating insects. When my friends and immediate family members took to putting their hands over their ears and singing "La la la, I can't hear you!" whenever I mentioned entomophagy, I deduced that it was time to seek other ranting grounds...in this case, the world wide web. I created eatbug.com at the age of 15, and, startlingly enough, was mentioned as a Yahoo! Pick of the Week and began generating actual traffic only a few weeks after publishing the site. Needless to say, this popularity inflated my adolescent ego to an untoward degree...

However, entomophagy is just one facet of my (somewhat eclectic) personality. I am also defined by my homeschooling...I have created a community site for teen homeschoolers, named, somewhat unoriginally, The Teen Homeschooler. Here, you can catch a glimpse of my life, interests, and writing style, such as it is.

Scholastically I would normally be considered a high school senior, and will be heading off to college this fall (hurrah!). My current favorite subjects are philosophy, Irish history, logic, and Latin...my less-than-favorite subjects are pre-calculus and trigonometry. I greatly admire chemistry, physics, and so forth, but have been hampered in every effort to study them by my merely passable math skills (when castigated for these failures, my response is "I'm not a math geek, I'm an artiste!"). My one true love is currently writing, and I eventually hope to be a writer. The chances are high that I'll change my mind about this, however...at various stages in life my ~career goals have included: xenobiologist, entomologist, nun, agricultural scientist, galactic conquerer, ballet dancer, veterinarian, and singer.

Hmmm...what else? I'm Roman Catholic, prolife, a computer geek (no, wait, artiste!), a member of the Petite Elite (only those 5'6" or under qualify...death to the Freakish Giants!), and am exceptionally keen on science fiction and fantasy. In Real Life, I'm a mild mannered loudmouth, and strike people as either amusing, interesting, frightening, annoying, ludicrous, charming, or admirable, depending on the alignment of the planets and how much coffee I've had that day. I usually wear ankle length dresses; it is simply amazing how many people you can shock by wearing modest clothing. All of my actions are governed by the two little green aliens who live under my desk. All will bow before them, muahahaha! My Official Nickname is "Tia". I work towards the complete eradication of the phrase "Wazzup?". I insist upon equal rights for unborn women. My favorite author is G.K. Chesterton, my favorite color, purple. Glorp bleezog vibble glaborn wog!