CURRENT MISSION

To try and take over the world.

ABOUT ME

I am a college librarian obsessed with traveling and meeting new people. Like most people on here, I guess. Except the part about college librarians.

PHILOSOPHY

to have a good time while at the same time making sure others are having a good time as well... too many selfish people are in this life for themselves. they have no regard for others. i judge myself by the caliber of my friends. so far i seem to have surrounded myself with some pretty awesome, generous, creative folks. i hope to never let people get the sense that i take them for granted. i'm an extremely gracious and grateful person.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've made so many great friends in my brief travels... where to begin. I think my fondest memory of couchsurfing is making an Aussie friend in a bar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and then spending the next month with her and her Aussie and Indonesian friends in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. All of her friends nicknamed me "oleh-oleh" which is Indonesian for "souvenir".

Interests

Social Justice, reading, traveling, meeting new people, taking photographs (amateur), EATING, cinema, live performing arts - theater, dance, music, just being CHILL, writing in my journal, thinking about life with a big cup of coffee... having ridiculously intimate conversations with strangers, challenging people to think outside of the proverbial (isn't this phrase annoying?!) box, umm... there's loads more. I love playing board games and card games (not poker cuz i suck at it and i hate losing money).

• arts
• writing
• theater
• performing arts
• dancing
• coffee
• movies
• board games
• reading
• traveling
• poker
• music
• boxing

Music, Movies, and Books

music: miike snow, lady gaga (of course), lykke li, joshua radin, sufjan stevens, bloc party, nelly furtado, cat stevens, dixie chicks, death cab for cutie, stevie wonder, the postal service, imogen heap, frou frou, john mayer, sheryl crow, ani difranco, bjork...

movies: lars von trier (dancer in the dark, breaking the waves, dogville, dear wendy), perdro almodovar (hable con ella, sobre todo mi madre, la mala educacion, volver), Michel Gondry (eternal sunshine, science of sleep), cate blanchett (is my HERO!), gael garcia bernal, m. night shyamalan (the sixth sense, unbreakable, the village)

books: orson scott card (ender's game), jk rowling (i'm a HUGE harry potter fan), david levithan (realm of possibility, boy meets boy, are we there yet?), michael chabon, mary doria russell (the sparrow!!!), philip pullman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived. Loved. Lost. :-) Poetic, no?!

Teach, Learn, Share

yes little grasshoppers... all in good time. i'll talk your ear off about libraries. and the importance of access to information.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Poland, Qatar, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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