CURRENT MISSION

putting the best of my two left feet forward

ABOUT ME

Hi! I'm Amy, a grad student in architectural history and theory. I've been a couchsurfer since summer of 2008. Am interested in acoustics, learning new languages, astrophysics, dancing... Addicted to sunlight, love lounging and reading a good book, but also love traveling and meeting new people, sharing random experiences and stories. Hope to meet you soon!

PHILOSOPHY

What is under our control is making the best of what is not under our control.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

surfin', hostin', and singin' couchsurfing's praises

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I first got into couchsurfing when I was living in Ireland-- I met the couchsurfing community there and they were so indescribably important to my experience. Some of them are now my close friends!

Interests

are endless.

But among them are...a burgeoning fascination with astronomy, book cover designs (especially old books), soundscapes, typography, microhistories.

• books
• dancing
• reading
• traveling
• astronomy
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

...with the understanding that we are dealing in bold reductionsim...

LIT: Noise (Attali), anything Vonnegut, Le Petit Prince (Exupery), Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot), White Noise (DeLillo), The Baron in the Trees (Calvino)... HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (Douglas Adams)

MOVING PICTURES: Singing in the Rain, Brazil, V for Vendetta, Koyaanisqatsi

TUNES: Shabazz Palaces, Beethoven, Chopin, Philip Glass, Neko Case, The National, DJ /Rupture (check out his radio show, Mudd Up!), LCD Soundsystem, Andrew Bird, Toumani Diabate, Santigold, The Kinks, Los Rakas.............

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I gotta tell it like it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJDLRCXR2ZM
I will warn you, getting out of the car is more difficult than it seems.

Teach, Learn, Share

I will learn from you as you teach me how to teach, and I can share with you what others have taught me.

Was that enough of a cop-out answer? :)
But there's truth to it.

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