For casual life, My biggest passion right now is travel. I like to travel to expand my horizons and to connect myself more deeply with the world. While in travelling I like to experience new and interesting cultures, experience art, and experience the natural wonders of that place.

I also like to have interesting conversations, learn in any way that I can, go to concerts, lift weights, go to lectures and conferences, meet new people, familiarize myself with new music, go hiking or on long walks, meditate, and go to fetish events. I live in a collective house right now and I tend to do a lot of activities with them.

On the more serious side of things, I worked as a researcher for a charity. I researched animal consciousness right now! I also organize to Meetup groups: one about rationality and the other about effective altruism.

Unfortunately, I have some serious repetitive injuries that have been making life and work difficult for the past couple of years. I don't let this get me down and it is made me realize how important health is and how much effort I should put into it.

I intend to donate all extra money that I earned that I don't need to live a frugal lifestyle to charity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like the idea of meeting people from the site and having a more personal experience of a city. I'm also very frugal and minimalistic, so hotel rooms aren't very appealing to me.

Interests

• books
• beer
• vegan
• yoga
• meditation
• metal music
• hiking
• biology
• economics
• geography
• philosophy
• psychology
• health
• learning
• meeting new people
• animal rights
• nutrition
• audiobooks
• sexuality
• charity
• self-improvement
• artificial intelligence
• math
• rationality
• effective altruism
• zoology
• open-mindedness
• fitness,

Music, Movies, and Books

In general I like media that keeps me thinking and challenges me. I also like when things are dark and edgy. I recognize that my tastes in media are eclectic, and I don't have the expectation that people I date will share them (though that's always nice!)

Music: I love metal, including folk metal, black metal, technical death metal. I also like some industrial (especially harsh EBM and NDH), some folk, and some military marches.

Books: I mostly read various kinds of nonfiction these days. I'll read anything that helps me understand the world better! It's worth saying my favourite fiction authors because most people prefer fiction: Orson Scott Card, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Sawyer, Edgar Allan Poe, Neal Stephenson, Robert Heinlein, Kurt Vonnegut, Jorge Luis Borges, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lovecraft, Cervantes, and Shakespeare.

I have the books I like listed here!:

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5526696-mooncalf

Movies:

The Thing, The Silence of the Lambs, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Watchmen, Dead Alive, Ichi the Killer, and The Fly.

TV:

I really like British humor such as Black Adder, The Mighty Boosh, The Peep Show, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, QI, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and That Mitchell and Webb Look.

I also like Black Mirror, Dexter, Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, Breaking Bad, The Future is Wild, Rick and Morty, Westworld, and Masters of Horror.

Food: Healthy vegan foods that require minimal preparation.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Naked bungee jumping

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach people about gratitude exercises, self massage techniques, invertebrate consciousness, and effective altruism

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am very well read, and I can hold my own in intellectual discussions and explain things well to people. I give good massages as well.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Malta, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, England, Spain