CURRENT MISSION

Finding friendly, fun, interesting people (and comfortable couches) wherever I go

ABOUT ME

I'm Eileen. I have taken classes at 5 or 6 different colleges, switched my major several times, and ended up in psychology. After graduating, I worked as a lab manager in a cognitive science lab in DC for a couple years before moving back to the Boston area for grad school. I'm currently in a 5 year program that'll be finished in 2020 (that's my optimistic vision, anyway).

I like to get out when I can, grab a drink with coworkers, peers, friends, or go see shows or exhibits. I tend to get along with all types, and enjoy hearing others' experiences and perspectives. I have a somewhat lame, sometimes quirky or weird, often sarcastic but generally well-intended sense of humor.

PHILOSOPHY

How did the solipsist break up with his girlfriend?
...

"It's not you, it's me."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new here, and although I have used this site more so to ask locals for advice in my travels, I am open to couch-surfing (if the roommate is also all right with it). We don't mind company and love to entertain for friendly, well-trusted, fun guests.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Generally it's been friends, or friends of friends. I have couch surfed (not via this site but through friends that know people in the area I am visiting etc) in places such as Chicago, San Fran, London, and Berlin. I'm open-minded, and have heard good things about this site -- so we'll see!

Interests

art, eclectic music, grade b horror flicks, the Twilight Zone, food (mainly vegetarian and fish of all flavors), wine, beer, alcoholic beverages, cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, local shows, wanderlust, accents, history, old used books, old postcards, abandoned buildings, films, coffee, espresso, sharpies, colloquialisms, stories, sarcasm.

• fish
• arts
• books
• dining
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• vegetarian
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• fishing
• surfing
• history
• neuroscience
• psychology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Annie Hall, Children of Men, 28 Days Later, Cube, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Sleepaway Camp, Pink Flamingos, Reality Bites, Short Circuit, more.

Books: We Need to Talk About Kevin, Still Alice, House of Leaves, Clockwork Orange, Crime and Punishment, The Day of the Locust, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Overqualified, more.

Music: Modest Mouse, Spoon, Tokyo Police Club, Pixies, Social D, The Smiths (and of course, Morrissey), Bon Iver, Mike Doughty, Moby, Starfucker, Phantogram, Blockhead, Radiohead, Glassjaw, Black Math Horseman, Broken Social Scene, Cheap Girls, Tom Waits, Okkervil River, Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, Sarah Jaffe, Rolling Stones (always and forever), and Prince. Oh god, Prince.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sofia, Bulgaria for three weeks! Awesome.
Beforehand I wandered London, after Berlin. Lots of amazing.

Jackson Hole (WY) in the summer -- in a small cabin in a valley overlooked by the Grand Tetons, surrounded by buffalo and happiness and life.

Or San Francisco, in general. Still one of my favorite places yet.

Teach, Learn, Share

I make a mean vegetarian chili. I also enjoy doodling (can you teach that?). If you're passionate about something, I'll probably want to hear about it.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Humor, drink recipes, stories, a couch when/ if they find themselves in my area...