CURRENT MISSION

Live Happily

ABOUT ME

I'm a cheerful graduate student who would like to see more of the world. I live with my husband Geoff, our corgi Ein, and our cat Lucy. Largely due to being a broke student I haven't traveled as much as I would like, but I hope to remedy that in the next couple of years. I'm a pretty chatty lass with an off-beat sense of humor and some strong political leanings.

PHILOSOPHY

I'm an eternal optimist, I think that life is utterly beautiful.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm a freshy at this, but I'm open to hosting and would like to surf one of these days.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Currently none, but I'm hoping that will change.

Interests

Food (cooking and eating), politics, friends, good movies, science, trashy, trashy romance novels, decent literature, rainy days, and plenty of other things too.

• cats
• literature
• dining
• cooking
• politics
• movies
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Chill folksy stuff, alternative, and Tchaikovsky, on the music front although really I'm pretty open to most music. Movies I'm a lot more picky about, I generally don't care for comedies and I absolutely hat horror. I like dramas, foreign films, and anime. Some of my favorites are LOTR, The Princess Bride, Russian Promises, Volver, Once, I can never think of movies on the spot. Books, well I love to read but I have no shame in admitting that the majority of my reading material is romance novels. I spend an awful lot of time reading textbooks and journal articles I want to escape when I read. Some of my all time favorites, hoever, include Anna Karenina, Graceling, His Dark Materials, The Magic Mountain, and Persepolis.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once was forced up the side of a mountain by a mother bear and her two cubs. It was exhilarating and terrifying.