2025 UPDATE: It's been almost a decade now since I've been active on Couchsurfing. Many days, I miss it dearly. Life's a bit too busy these days to allow me to be the host I used to be, but rather than scrub or delete my profile, I've left it here for posterity and the occasional weary, wide-eyed that may still somehow find it.

CURRENT MISSION

There are roughly 4,567 recognized types of flavors from which liquid cocktails can be mixed. There are 7,000,000 flavors of people with whom to mix liquid cocktails. Let's get mixing.

ABOUT ME

I have been known as the Philosopher of the Rhododendrons, the Noctornal Botanist and This Guy. By any other name, I would still be me. I live my life by the adage that the world is my oyster, but learn increasingly day by day that I am but a very small oyster in my world. Though I try to air on the side of mystery when it comes to personal descriptions, here I offer some appetizers:

Prone to distraction and cognitive dissonance, I very often find myself preoccupied with the minutia of the world--the moments when in all the immensity of life's many matrices, the profound interconnectivity of all our lives becomes all of a sudden tangible. I am equally preoccupied with dancing. Sometimes I dance in massive crowds; sometimes I dance atop various pieces of furniture; sometimes, even, I dance alone when no one else is watching. Life is a dance for me: a sublime and splendid techtonik jive in which one's footwork is one's choice and rhythm is irrelevant.

As regards being hosted, I believe there is no end to the mileage gained by respecting a host's personal proclivities and the rules that govern his or her house. Being an exchange student once and in a way vying desperately to remain an exchange student for life, I know well that active participation in the life of a host combined simultaneously with a conscious and considerate regard of that host's lifestyle makes you a better-welcomed guest anywhere.I do not smoke, am not plagued by any allergies (at least none of which I am aware) and have no particular disinclinations as regards my palette. I do enjoy a solid romperoo and always appreciate the presence of party animals in my life. That being said, and contrary to the previous statement, I will never turn down the opportunity to pass over the course of a tranquil evening engaged actively in stimulating conversation with a new acquaintance. I can dig it either way.

As regards hosting, there are but three rules: 1) have a blast, 2) be safe and 3) do almost all in your power (except not have a blast) to avoid ending up on the board of shame for inebriated antics.

Si tu es français/française, on parle français! Türk musun? Turkçe konušabiliriz! Hablamos español tambien! And if none of those work, we're fluent in the sweet, sultry language of coexistence.

PHILOSOPHY

"I knew then that I would not be a man who would make tragedies of trifles, but a man who would make trifles of tragedies." -George Bernard Shaw

"Oui, vous m'arrachez tout, le laurier et la rose
Arrachez! Il y a malgré vous quelque chose
Que j'emporte, et ce soir quand j'entrerai chez dieu
Mon salut balaiera largement le seuil bleu
Quelque chose que sans une pli, sans une tache,
J'emporte malgré vous, et c'est…mon panache!"
~Cyrano de Bergerac, from the Rostrand

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
~T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

"Buvons, chers amis, buvons,
Le temps qui fuit nous y convie.
Profitons de la vie autant que nous pouvons."
~Moliere

"La tierra es redonda como un naranja."
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

'Hızlı yaşa, genç öl, ölun guzel olsun!"
~Turkish Proverb

"Aposté los sentimientos y juegé a fuego lento con amor.
Me enfrenté a la competencia olvidando su indolencia..."
~Romeo Santos

'Gençlik geleceğin güvencesidir.'
~Ataturk

"Turn down for what? ...Cops and bedtime."
~Lil Jon

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

"No one stands taller than in the instant he or she stoops to help another."

兴趣

Making this wide old world a little less wide in meeting some new, groovy and beautiful people, living life with no boundaries, no regrets and certainly without the least bit of that bitch we call hesitation.

• culture
• dancing
• cocktails
• traveling
• philosophy

音乐、电影和书籍

When it comes to media, I have one of the most severe cases of A.D.H.D. never catalogued ın a clinical journal. Get me addicted to somethıng new, and you wıll be forever remembered fondly, that`s what I say…

But some general pointers:
Bachata, chalga, sanat müziği.
Country, because…America?
One hundred thirty beats per minute.

Gødel, Escher, Bach.
The Age of Innocence.
Flashman: Skulldugger Extraodinaire.
The Swerve.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Lived life for twenty three years.

教，学，和分享

What I can share: Cajun chicken pasta that will blow your socks off and of course, new dance moves.

What I would hope would be shared with me: Anything the teachers of this world wish to teach me and of course, new dance moves.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Stories aplenty.

我游览过的国家

Albania, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Viet Nam

我居住过的国家

Azerbaijan, France, Senegal, Turkey, United States

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