CURRENT MISSION

Fistfight with Zeus, followed by camaraderie and imperial stout.

ABOUT ME

I grew up in the cold hot Minnesota suburbs, lived in Minneapolis for a while, and in fall 2012 moved to the UK. I like snobby nineteenth-century music and contemporary mathy underground punk. I like reading books, biking, visiting cities, having conversations, drinking and eating new and exciting things, trying to talk in other languages, analysing books and movies and poems and debating most things. I like learning new ways to think of things, but I like to do it grudgingly. But I still like new friendly people, and oftentimes grudging, cynical ones too.
I like camping and the outdoors a lot too but I'm something of a novice. I'll hike two miles through the woods to get to a campsite with poorly-tied pans banging against my knee the whole way and still have a good time, but I would have a better time if I knew what I was doing.

PHILOSOPHY

More weird times yield more good stories

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfed a full five-week research project around France and loved it.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Working on it.

Interests

Local music, schmancy food and microbrews, cheap banh mi, urban exploring

• books
• poetry
• dining
• beer
• sauna
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Battle of Algiers David Lynch, Joanna Newsom Blondie Tchaikovsky Rachmaninov Fiery Furnaces Melt Banana, Virginia Woolf William Faulkner Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jorge Luis Borges Michel Foucault Wallace Stevens

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Taken a sauna. Swam in an awfully cold mountain lake. Visited the boundary waters. Climbed a papaya tree.

Teach, Learn, Share

Always looking to share a good recipe or learn a new one. Willing to give strongly opinionated recommendations about books, films, beers, etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cameroon, France, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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