CURRENT MISSION

Preventing Istanbul from getting completely gentrified

ABOUT ME

Have the best job in the world - Am amazed that someone pays me to do research in mathematics, when I would gladly do it for free. Write fiction in my spare time, though the quality of my output leaves a lot to be desired, to put it mildly. "Won" Nanowrimo this year.

PHILOSOPHY

Show me a person who says he or she has seen enough of the world and I will show you someone who is speaking through their hat.

Что привело меня на Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Plan to host guests and suggest offbeat experiences

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Very pleasant stays in Beijing, London and Chicago.

Интересы

Literary fiction and on a more mundane level, week long hikes. On a still more mundane, (or should that be sublime), flying custom made kites.

• cooking
• flying
• cycling
• hiking
• swimming
• mathematics

Музыка, кино и книги

Movies: LA style noir, Italian realism, French new wave
Music: Old blues, reinterpreted folk, Baroque classical
Books: High modernism - Love Joyce, Pound, Beckett, Gombrowicz. Also love formless monsters - Anything in the vein of Rabelais or Sterne.

Классная вещь, которую я сделал(-а)

Northern lights, January 2012, Tromso.
Kumbh Mela, 2001, Allahabad
Lake Kanas, 2004, Xinjiang
Machu Pichu, 2013 fall(planned)
Cycling around lake Baikal, Someday

Учу, учусь, делюсь опытом и информацией

Great swimmer. Good collection of jokes. Average cook. Bad violinist.