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Overview
About Me
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