CURRENT MISSION

Maximize the sum integral of happiness.

ABOUT ME

Compulsive designer, circus girl, and talented amateur.

Seeking unintuitive challenges that require creativity and cleverness to solve.

Movement, novelty, ingenuity, and passion are my mode de vivre.

PHILOSOPHY

I should be able to change my mind, plan a group project, butcher what I meant to say, conn an adventure, design a large art, write what I'm feeling, balance my lifestyle, build a relationship, set a stage, comfort a friend, take inspiration, give inspiration, cooperate, act alone, solve puzzles, analyze a new puzzle, pitch an idea, program a robot, cook well for a group, fight when necessary, die memorably. Specialization is for automata.

-ripped off shamelessly from Heinlein

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

When I have my own place, I love hosting (both through this site and by Word of Mouth). It keeps my wanderlust a bit sated, hearing about others' travels!

When on the road I love surfing because I get to experience the world as a local instead of a tourist - meeting interesting people, finding secret places, and adventuring.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Excellent. I love my geographically-unbound community!

Interests

Exercising a combination of intuition and ingenuity to make things, solve problems, climb on everything, become flexible in mind and body, travel impulsively, find trouble (and get out of it).

An example: I fixed my hand-mounted flamethrower with bubblegum, a ziptie, and the ace bandage from my sprained ankle. I am absurdly pleased with these desenrascanço moments.

• arts
• design
• dancing
• swing dancing
• cooking
• exercise
• boating
• traveling
• puzzles
• surfing
• sailing
• jiu jitsu
• engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

Whatever is new and wonderful. At time of writing,
Books: Permutation City, The Name of the Wind (not new, but I keep circling back to Rothfuss), Worm
Movies: Upstream Color
Live: Arcadia, Sleep No More, Fuerza Bruta
Arts: Escher, Bertil Nilsson
Musics: Caravan Palace

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Icebergs while sailing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You simply can't tell from a photo, but these floating, ice islands are magnificent and awe-inspiring. Add to that that a little 2m bergybit could capsize our boat and... intense.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love physical activities, and will gladly play around trying random acrobatics with anyone who doesn't mind a few bruises if we mess up! I especially would love to learn/improve Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, Swing dancing, and handbalancing.

I'm a mechanical engineer and make things all the time. If the resources are available, I love collaborating and teaching fabrication and design.

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