By day, I'm a physics professor. By night, I play roleplaying games, have great conversations, ride my bicycle to get around, and study nonviolent communication. Sometimes I play my drum and saxophone (but not at the same time. Yet). People ask me questions about Linux, and I can oftentimes answer them. I love learning about how gender is viewed in our culture, and how to change it. I'm vegetarian and my partner is vegan.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Participate in gift economy, meet people.

Interests

physics, karaoke, dance clubs, meeting awesome people and having amazing conversations, gender/sexuality studies, roleplaying games, alternative social organizations, polyamory, biking, puns, giving massages

• culture
• dancing
• vegetarian
• vegan
• clubbing
• socializing
• origami
• survival
• karaoke
• cycling
• teaching
• physics
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Donnie Darko, Get Smart, Trigun, Star Trek (the new movie and a few older ones), Lucky Number Slevin, Super Troopers, Airplane!, Fight Club, Happy Feet, Love Actually, Funny Games

Techno, Dance, House, Pop, Ambient, Drum & Bass, Industrial, some Rap:

Adam F, Ani DiFranco, Aphex Twin, Arman van Buuren, Blumchen, BT, Cake, Crystal Method, Daft Punk, DJ Rap, Eminem, Fatboy Slim, Lords of Acid, Old Crow Medicine Show, Paul van Dyk, The Prodigy, Sixpence None the Richer

Ask For It
Facilitation from the Heart
Getting Things Done
Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
George Orwell's 1984
Kurt Vonnegut
Science fiction in general, absurdist things like Catch-22.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once drove across the USA with my dad to visit family in California. We had a great time, just before I went away to university. We saw the Grand Canyon and the Hoover Dam. Also Texas is big and flat, who knew? :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach about physics, gender theory, nonviolence, open source software, computers in general, origami, self-defense, wilderness survival/navigation, the English language, American culture, LGBT(lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender) culture, alternative lifestyles, polyamory

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, England, Germany, Norway, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States