CURRENT MISSION

To live, loaf, and read until my head a'splodes

ABOUT ME

I'm working on a graduate degree (read: destroying the tattered remnants of any social life I previously enjoyed) at the University of Nevada, Reno. My snobby, literary/research interests include the Anglophone literature of Sri Lanka and India, ecocriticism, and modernism. I also love movies, riding my bike around Reno, cooking, good beer, stalking Thom Yorke, and writing letters.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

have a long history of staying on friends' floors in foreign cities/countries, but am really looking forward to meeting new people through CouchSurfing.

Interests

internet detritus, language, postcolonialism, Sri Lanka, waste and trashscapes, jokes that involve Lovecraftian references, science fiction, freak human-machine hybrid species conspiracy theories, defeatism, the outdoors, wine tasting, cryptozoology, starlings, drawing hearts in my notebooks around my initials and Fredric Jameson's, saving the polar bears, good vegan/vegetarian food, LOCAL FOOD!! WOO-HOO!

• writing
• literature
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• wine tasting
• vegetarian
• vegan
• movies
• drawing
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• history
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Paprika, Fargo, Noi the Albino, Rushmore, The Station Agent, Blade Runner, Nausicaä, 101 Reykjavík, Igby Goes Down, The Big Lebowski

Books: Midnight's Children, The Glass Palace, Romesh Gunasekera's Reef, Running in the Family, Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, The Waves by Woolf, In the Skin of a Lion, The Adventures of Augie March, Our Mutual Friend, Love in the Time of Cholera, Another Roadside Attraction, US 1, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, The Virgin Suicides, Naive.Super, Adam Bede, Cane, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, American Gods, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, White Teeth, Invisible Man, and poems by Moore, O'Hara, Ashbery, Rilke, Stevens, Eliot, Toomer, Gwendolyn Brooks, Loy, Hass, Bishop, Auden, and John Clare.

Music: lately it's been Bon Iver, Shearwater, Neko Case, Massive Attack, and Do Make Say Think. More generally, I tend to like indie rock, electronica, and a lot of alt.country.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've held open a hotel door for Judas Priest.

Teach, Learn, Share

Literature, literary theory, vegan cooking, bicycle repair, humor

Countries I’ve Visited

France

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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