CURRENT MISSION

To make Boston a warmer, fuzzier place.

ABOUT ME

Motor-mouth blogger, photographer, collector of ephemera & nifty facts, travel nut, news junkie, mistress of thrift, wine nerd, aspiring media maven & polyglot, fraternal twin.

I am currently working at a marketing software company in Cambridge called HubSpot.

Everything else please see below.

PHILOSOPHY

I think you're fascinating!

Everyone has a story and something to say and something to be enjoyed by others, its just a matter of finding it.

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Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Nothing makes me appreciate my home town more than showing it off to guests.

I have had incredible experiences abroad, but I have been a bit lame since returning to Boston. Please help me to help myself. I work primarily nights and am available during the day for lunch or coffee or a museum visit.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My 2008 was my first year of couchsurfing: After waiting tables in a college town for 8 years, I finally decided I needed a break. Thankfully a few of my classes were offered online so I realized that I could be anywhere, and so began my little adventure. I lived and worked in Aspen Colorado for the season; I spent a month in the bay area, bouncing between Napa, Berkeley and San Francisco; I spent the summer in New York City, working at an auction house (wine department naturally). August and September brought more adventures and my introduction to couchsurfing (see below).My adventures down and out in Paris and London: Every host had rocked in their own idiosyncratic way: I was treated like the 4th roommate at Marc's in London; Tina was an incredibly hands on tour guide (and French tutor - two days of immersion!), showing me the best that Dijon and Beaune had to offer; Guillaume showed that the best attraction in Lyon is the couchsurfing community; Pierre wins the superlative "most ambitious host" to date: (7 couchsurfers in one studio and it was still fun); Sammy was the absolute sweetest kindest host in Paris if not the world - stayed out with me till all hours despite having to work the next day - what a trooper!

Intereses

Running, hiking, skiing, cooking, yoga, reading, writing, getting lost, traveling, vinyl collecting, photography (medium format thank you very much), forcing myself to become fluent in anything other than English, procrastination, Scrabble, bargain hunting (tag sales & Ebay), films, cities, nutrition, wine, cocktails, spirits, tea (anything imbibable) good grammar, bad teeth, old tchotchkes, music so good it gives you the chills, my family, your family, rhetorical devices, anything French, hare-brained cockamamie schemes, the ampersand, public transportation, private lives, WWOOFing, The Economist, Decanter, Vice, Twitter, postcards, neon signs, redheads, baths, Barack Obama, urban planning, George Carlin (R.I.P), Eddie Izzard, museums, libraries, retro barware, vintage t-shirts, rivers at dawn, mountains at dusk.

• writing
• photography
• concerts
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• cocktails
• coffee
• yoga
• running
• thrifting
• news
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• hunting
• skiing
• communications
• economics
• teaching
• software
• tourism
• rivers
• mountains

Música, películas y libros

Music: (in no particular order) The Magnetic Fields, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Holly Golightly, The Fratellis, Jackie Wilson, Andrew Bird, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Presley, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Feist, Cat Power, Little Richard, Outkast, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, Mozart, Heavy Trash, Leonard Cohen, Sam Cooke, Neko Case, Devotchka, M.I.A, Gogol Bordello, The New Pornographers, Alison Krauss, Ween, The French Kicks, The Weakerthans, The Shins, Etta James, Bobby Bare Junior, Jeff Buckley, Nick Cave, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Trio, Chuck E. Weiss, Fabienne Del Sol, Gomez, Fruit Bats, Graham Parker, Jay Bennett, Cee-Lo Green, Regina Spektor, Al Green, The Blacks, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Buddy Holly, The Decemberists, Paul Simon, Ted Hawkins, Zero 7, the Eels, Isis, Del McCoury, Chuck Berry, Joni Mitchell, Fiona Apple, James Brown, David Bowie, The Beatles, Ronnie Lane, The Cramps, Run DMC, Graham Parker, the Kinks, Rilo Kiley, Wilson Pickett, Yelle, Bettye Swann, Mary Wells, "Carmen Jones" Soundtrack, Harry Belafonte, Etta Fitzgerald, Cornershop, Dusty Springfield, Gorillaz, The White Stripes, Massive Attack, The Strokes, R.L. Burnside, Van Morrison, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Cliff, Radiohead, The Temptations, The Beach Boys, Beirut, Phoenix, Spoon, The Dandy Wharhols, Pete Molinari, Handsome Boy Modeling School, The Postal Service, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, Jeff Buckley, Jenny Lewis, Le Tigre, Of Montreal, Kanye West, Pernice Brothers almost anything on Merge, Yep Roc or Motown.

Movies: Love and Death, La Cite des Enfants Perdus, The Royal Tennenbaums, the Big Lebowski, Best In Show, Death to Smoochie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Night On Earth, The Ref, Stranger Than Fiction, Down By Law, Fear of a Black Hat, Flirting with Disaster, Shawshank Redemption, Citizen Kane, The Darjeeling Limited, Annie Hall, The Meaning Of Life, The Great Muppet Caper, Kings and Queen, Crybaby, Pulp Fiction, Brazil, The Goonies, Strictly Ballroom, The Sweet Hereafter, Fight Club, North By Northwest, Waiting For Guffman, The Usual Suspects, Metropolis, Amadeus, Casablanca, Coming to America, Miller's Crossing, Mixed Nuts, Donnie Darko, Witness for the Prosecution, Stalag 17, Duck Soup, The Dirty Dozen, Young Frankenstein, Metropolis, Flash Gordon, The Manchurian Candidate, Blazing Saddles, A Bug's Life, Labyrinth, My Own Private Idaho, Sneakers, Clue, The Court Jester, Run Lola Run, Brick, The Jerk, Galaxy Quest, Zoolander, Dogma.

Books: The Master and Marhgarita, Still Life with Woodpecker, Satanic Verses, Frames of Mind, Decline and Fall, Catch 22, Ministry of Fear, The Americans, Breakfast of Champions, The Tipping Point, The Art of Eating, The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, King Lear, Me Talk Pretty One Day, anything written by Jancis Robinson, Graham Greene, Haruki Murakami, George Orwell, TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Milan Kundera, Kurt Vonnegut or Chuck Palahniuk; anything published by McSweeneys or Phaidon.

Algo increíble que he hecho

Seeing the stars from a hot spring in Colorado in the middle of January; Sunrises over the Charles River; sunsets on the Fire Trail in Berkeley; concert on the Piazza San Marco; Burano with my father; New York City with my brother; Les Tuilleries with my sister; Butte aux Cailles with both; Powder days in Colorado; Getting lost in Central Park during a summer rainstorm; working at Christie's Auction House (especially during the James Brown estate sale); The vineyards of Champagne, Beaujolais, and Domaine Romanee Conti; Mountains of the Jura in the rain; sharing a bottle of wine on the Seine, El Yunque in Puerto Rico, El Morro & Old San Juan with my darling twin sister, seeing Ray Charles in concert rocking a gold lamé suit.

Enseña, aprende, comparte

Teach: Anything related to food, wine and oodles of random factoids of which you were unaware.

Learn: I am dying to be a polyglot so please help a sister out (especially in the French department).

Share: Good conversation & new experiences.

Países que he visitado

Canada, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

Países en los que he vivido

United States

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