CURRENT MISSION

Getting off my lazy ass and running a half-marathon in March

ABOUT ME

I think what I typed in in the 'occupation' field says it all.. I'm ostensibly a grad student, working on my PhD in Ecology, but there is nothing I hate more than having a single word or phrase describe me. So, more accurately, I'm an ecologist and mathematician by profession, an artist and woodworker by inclination, musician by aspiration, philosopher of science and religion because my head's not on straight, cook, world traveler, polyglot, and a little bit of just about everything else.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None so far, but I have friends who swear by it, and I'm always game for new stuff..

Interests

Cooking good food, meeting people from different countries, pubcrawling, hiking, music on vinyl, woodworking, Ecology!!

• dining
• cooking
• marathon
• running
• socializing
• woodworking
• music
• hiking
• ecology
• philosophy
• religion
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Films by Yasujiro Ozu and Masaki Kobayashi, French New Wave-y stuff. Kitchy films from the 80s and 90s..
Books: Anything by Douglas Adams or P G Wodehouse, Bill Bryson, Richard Dawkins
Music: Mingus, Coltrane, Charlie Parker, The Knife, Flaming Lips, Gorillaz, classic rock

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Smoked a long, luxurious cigarette on top of Mt Stok Kangri, at 21,000 ft asl in the middle of Kashmir, in the Himalayas.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Hindi. Finally, all those Bollywood musicals will make perfect sense!

I'm a decent artist and woodworker and I would love to learn more or help you start off..

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Tanzania, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, United States

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