CURRENT MISSION

Adventures in Academia!

ABOUT ME

Born and raised on the east-coast (New Jersey) and I've lived in Philadelphia, New York City, Austin, Los Angeles and Rome. My plan is to head back west, probably to San Francisco after school. I'm a social worker and beginning a PhD program in Clinical Sexology, so I'm pretty dang busy. I also write short fiction and hope to get back to work on a novel post-school. Past jobs range from live and studio music production assistant to drug and alcohol counselor to slaving tables and beyond...I'm a bit all over the place and I wouldn't have it any other way!

PHILOSOPHY

"I believe in everything. Nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing. Everything is sacred." Tom Robbins

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted and surfed across the US and Europe informally, and think the CS network is a brilliant way to expand this. Just getting into it, and have met great people and heard so many great CS stories so far!

Interests

social justice/politics/dynamics of power and oppression, music, writing fiction and nonfiction, reading, beer, surfing, philosophy, backpacking, queer politics, biking, metal/ceramic/mixed media sculpture and jewelry, bodywork, neuropsychology, vipassana meditation, culture...

• culture
• writing
• books
• beer
• meditation
• politics
• reading
• music
• cycling
• backpacking
• surfing
• communications
• law
• social work

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: City of God, The Hours, Run Lola Run, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Future, Amelie, Trainspotting, Crash, This Is Spinal Tap, Vertigo, Dancer in the Dark, A Clockwork Orange, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Music: Arcade Fire, Bjork, Cat Power, Dresden Dolls, Erykah Badu, Feist, Grimes, Hot Chip, Interpol, Joni Mitchell, Kings of Leon, Leonard Cohen, Metric, The National, Oh Land, Patti Smith, Radiohead, Santigold, Tegan & Sara, Uffie, Velvet Underground, The Weeknd, The XX, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zambri (sooo much more...)

Tom Robbins, Miranda July, Lidia Yucknavitch, Michelle Tea, Herman Hesse, John Steinbeck, John Irving, Jerzy Kosinski, Edward Albee, Noam Chomsky, James Baldwin

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

climbed Mt. Rainier

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States

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