CURRENT MISSION

Saving the teens of Seattle

ABOUT ME

I like to laugh above all else. I walk the line between genuinely funny and genuinely funny looking. I am a good communicator, and thoughtful.

PHILOSOPHY

Better living through better posture. Local, organic, fair-trade. Cultivating those crazy experiences I have just before I fall asleep. Seeker of awareness and humility.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

In seattle, saying you participate in couchsurfing is like saying you huffed paint as a child. It's understood.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been a many time host through the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative where I lived for some of the great years of my life. I've had excellent experiences surfing in many different countries. Rideshare: awesome. In general, good times.

Interests

Wind: Sailing, kiting, frisbee
Music: Piano, guitar, accordion, flute
Literature: Science fiction, spontaneous poetry
Crafts: Collages
People: Fun, honest, positive

And now I have a bike so I bike a lot.

• books
• literature
• poetry
• crafts
• chess
• juggling
• painting
• origami
• poker
• music
• guitar
• piano
• cycling
• surfing
• sailing
• skiing
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Directors / Films:
Cohen Brothers, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson (The majority of Bill Murray's filmography, in fact),
Before the Rain, Casablanca, Fear & Loathing, Donnie Darko, eXistenZ.

Authors / Books:
Asimov, Phillip K. Dick, The Call of the Wild, A Moveable Feast, Short stories of O'Henry, good science like The Selfish Gene, The Elegant Universe, Guns Germs and Steel. Just read "Don't Get Too Comfortable," and laughed myself silly.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In the words of a greater man than I, "You'll just have to wait for the book to come out."

Teach, Learn, Share

I may be able to teach something on pretty much anything requiring coordination. I am a serial hobbyist. Frisbee, juggling, unicycling, slack lining, kitesurfing, skiing, and so on. Games like Go, chess, and poker. Arrowhead making. Origami. Kombucha brewing. You name it. I like to teach; it's what I do.