CURRENT MISSION

to make every person family, every place home

ABOUT ME

honk the horn when i cross state lines. grew up on one coast, and now go to school on the other. wear my heart on my sleeve. am good for a laugh. take mental notes in my head. bad memory. bad sense of directions. am an english major concentrating in creative writing and am minoring in philosophy. never really want to leave the academic system. been dying my hair since i was 13, am a killer bananagrams player, like to write. eschew modesty but loathe pretense. trivial pursuit is a contact sport. ask a lot of questions (i.e. too many questions). am great at apologies. will talk your ear off (all the way off, not van gogh off). i might be amoral. am genuinely interested in you. really, really, really like people. started sleeping with my dog last winter. like surprises. like flowers, specifically, sunflowers.

PHILOSOPHY

fake it till you make it

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

would like to cultivate long-distance friendships and promote global interconnectivity. i live in a dorm, so i usually cannot host people, but i'm always down for taking someone around new york.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

have travelled around europe via cs!

Interests

literature, philosophy, irony, childhood, the art of conversation, frozen yogurt, prose, quantum mechanics, magazines, lawrence ferlinghetti, bad TV

• dogs
• arts
• writing
• literature
• flowers
• tv
• sports
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

music: bob dylan to blind pilot to the beatles to lady gaga to jay z to segovia to chopin to my roommate's shower singing also the dodos and port o'brien and the sound of trains

movies: a bout de souffle, rushmore, rashomon, pulp fiction, citizen kane, high fidelity, grey gardens, love actually, casablanca, clueless, ferris bueller, the princess bride, we live in public, hedwig and the angry inch, sunset boulevard, inglourious basterds, annie hall, the dreamers, who's afraid of virginia woolf

authors: salinger, woolf, fitzgerald, raymond carver, joan dideon, tennessee williams, garcia-marquez, lorrie moore, julio cortazar, annie proulx, t.s. eliot, yeats, auden, shelley, keats, sarte, hemingway, borges, wordsworth, whitman, plath, ted hughes, flannery o'conner, neruda, lawrence ferlinghetti, ginsberg, chekhov, dylan thomas, de beauvoir

Teach, Learn, Share

will talk your ear off about literature or else bullshit you completely (up to you to find out) nevertheless, am always up for a conversation. like to be stimulated-- whether as a teacher or a student. will ask questions, and is likely to give information unsolicited.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States