CURRENT MISSION

As much novelty as fast as possible without dying.

ABOUT ME

I grew up in the Midwest, spent a summer in Spain, went to a liberal arts college in Western Massachusetts, spend a summer in China, and intend to settle in San Francisco, mecca of young and weird folk, for at least the next year. Probably like most people who use this site, I love to travel but don't have a lot of money, and would prefer never to have too much of it (to spend is often to consume; in other words, green ain't green!). Couchsurfing seems to be the modern iteration of the ancient Greek tradition of hosting any needy traveler, lest nobody get anywhere. I like feeling connected to the past in that way. I'm not too well-read, but I love talking about big ideas, politics, movies, TV, books, and music. I love the outdoors, and run almost every day; every day I meditate.

PHILOSOPHY

I think a lot about empathy, and how being empathic entails that one do unto others as *they* would have done unto them, not how one would have done unto oneself. I try to figure out what people want/need, but I'm not sure if that's a good way to be.

In the meantime, I'm trying to experience as many things as possible. I search for the foreign, strange, and foreboding. I started studying Chinese because it didn't seem like there was anything more alien I could've picked.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm surfing for now and hope to attend CS events to meet people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet, but I've crashed in some weird places, and have done WWOOF in Oregon.

Interests

Cooking (lived in a vegetarian co-op with 25 people), fiction, behavioral economics, psychoanalysis, feminism, language, dance, technology, art, music, videogames, and meditation (and spiritual practice in general). The internal world, the external world. Chinese poetry. The New Yorker, n+1, Harper's, all that liberal stuff.

• arts
• books
• poetry
• folklore
• dancing
• womens rights
• cooking
• vegetarian
• marathon
• running
• meditation
• politics
• technology
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• outdoor activities
• surfing
• economics
• wwoof

Music, Movies, and Books

Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Flying Lotus, Dan Deacon, David Foster Wallace, George Saunders.

It's appalling that these are all men, but I have to be honest. Mrs. Dalloway (by Virginia Woolf) is next on my reading list.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Run a marathon? Eaten chicken feet? Amazing to who? Once you've done something, it's sort of hard to be amazed with it, right? Otherwise that's kind of egotistical, isn't it?

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States