CURRENT MISSION

listen, and ask really good questions

ABOUT ME

What to say? I graduated from college a year or so ago, and have been bouncing around a lot since then. For the moment, living in Cambridge, MA. I like to write.

PHILOSOPHY

"When I say 'hope,' I do not mean hope for anything in particular. I guess I just mean thinking that it's worth it to keep one's eyes open. 'What are all those fuzzy looking things out there? Trees? Well, I am tired of them": the last words of William Carlos William's English grandmother."

--Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been so grateful to every host who's been kind enough to take me in, and I plan to repay that generosity once I have a more stable living situation of my own. But alas, that time is not quite right now...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed a ton during a summer 2012 road trip, and i met so many great people. Hope to be able to CS again soon...!

Interests

Books, art, writing, road trips, talking, coffee, ice cream, comfortable shoes, movies, sleep, foam rollers, secret ardvark hot sauce, podcasts, puzzles, redwood trees, secrets, physics, putting fruit in non-fruit salads

• arts
• writing
• books
• coffee
• movies
• puzzles
• podcasts
• physics
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Don Quixote, Infinite Jest (and DFW in general), Palm of the Hand Stories by Kawabata, Stories of Lydia Davis, Bluets by Maggie Nelson, Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (and Kundera in general), Stanley Cavell, Roland Barthes, Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, Gertrude Stein, Diane Williams short stories, King Lear

Movies: Anything by Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Whit Stillman, AND: Thelma and Louise, Y Tú Mama Tambien, Sólo con tu Pareja, The Graduate, Lost in Translation, Legally Blonde, Metropolitan, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Music: If I listen to anything enough times I usually end up liking it. But right now: country duets!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to use a foam roller

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, China, France, Laos, Portugal, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States