CURRENT MISSION

New places, new people, new experiences. May the novelty never wear off! ^_^

ABOUT ME

I have a sarcastic sense of humour, I'm cute (hey, that's what they tell me!), and I love food. Noâ

PHILOSOPHY

That having a set personal philosophy before the age of 30 might just mean you've gotten a little ahead of yourself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am making connections and chatting with other CSers about the site and travel in general. I have hosted a bit and met some CSers face-to-face in my travels. I've only surfed twice so far, but they were both excellent experiences! Mostly I prefer meet-ups to surfing; I don't know why, but I just really like staying in hotels.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had the opportunity to host some very nice people, despite my out of the way location. I've also met some great individuals in Europe through CS.

Interests

Writing, slash, CLex, sushi, food, SPICY food, travel, reading, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, New York, the UK, Michael Jackson, theoretical physics, old WWF, cooking, movies, exercise, healthy/clean eating

• writing
• dining
• cooking
• exercise
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• surfing
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Oh, so many... Re-Animator, anything with Jeffrey Combs, anything by H.P. Lovecraft, Jeff Rovin's novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (Hey, that's kind of relevant here: Where's your towel?), The Omnivore's Dilemma, Let the Right One In, and if I want to laugh very hard at some unbelievably bad writing, I'll pick up any book of the Twilight series.

Let me make this last bit perfectly clear: I. Am not. A fan. The woman can not write. If you want to poke fun at the series, I'm with you. If you want to sigh over one-true-love Eddikins' eyes/hair/skin, please begone away from me.

I've recently finished Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by the utterly inspiring William Kamkwamba, as well as House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski—a brilliant monster of a book! I highly recommend them all.

In the subject of MJ, I recommend Michael Jackson Conspiracy by Aphrodite Jones, despite the slapdash editing job.

Right now I'm reading The Fall (second of The Strain series by Guillermo del Toro) and All She was Worth by Mayuki Miyabe. I have another pile here I'm going to delve into soon, but I'm not sure which ones will come first. I'm also flittering among a few other titles, only a couple pages at a time, slowly, like Angels and Demons and a bit of Hellboy and some other short stories collections, and Hitman by Bret Hart. Why so many? Well, I tend to read a handful of books at a time rather than just one. I often will get bored with one subject but still want to read, so I prefer to peruse among a few at a time. :)

This field doesn't list television, but I figure it's as good a place as any to point out that I religiously watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (though not necessarily daily; I save them up and watch in chunks), and pretty much nothing else currently airing. Reality TV killed television.

I have love for a lot of since-cancelled shows, from ALF to Exit 57 to the Granada Television Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett, to various Star Trek series to Strangers With Candy to The Twilight Zone to early to mid-'90s wrestling shows (hey, don't judge me!) to In the Heat of the Night (the TV series, not the movie) to Batman (Adam West, Burt Ward) to The Monkees to three of the four Blackadder series and Mr. Bean to Monk to So noTORIous to seasons 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6 of Smallville...

Remember back when TV was actually GOOD?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Going to the Vale of Glamorgan was pretty great. It's definitely my favourite place in Europe thus far. Driving there is like... once you've driven on the 'roads' on the outskirts of Cowbridge, no highway or backwoods road will ever have the power to frighten you again.

Seeing The Colbert Report filmed live, getting to fake-flirt with Stephen Colbert one time, then getting to ask him a question, get a fist bump, and talk to him for a few minutes another time, was really freaking awesome for me. I seriously idolize that guy! (And I go back to the show as often as they let me... once every six months or so.)

Travelling the east coast of the U.S. and part of Canada in an RV was a pretty cool experience, too.

Seeing Thriller—Live! in the UK was also a very memorable experience (and one I might like to repeat).

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm kind of like a sponge, so if you wanna teach it, I probably wanna learn it.

I have a pretty good knowledge of food (did I mention my love of food?) and politics and have a lot of that useless type of knowledge—you know, when you know just a little bit about almost everything, but not a whole lot about any particular thing?

I know a lot about movies. I have about 4,000 of them, so that helps.

I also tend to gather an encyclopaedic knowledge of whatever subject it is I'm into at the time. But when my interest fades, so does a lot of the detail of that gathered knowledge. So, who knows what it is I know this week! :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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