Erstwhile academic and wrangler of children. I grew up in Berkeley, California, with a brief side-trek to boarding school in West Virginia. I also lived in New York City for four years, where I studied sociology of gender and education and generally raged against the weather.

I teach second grade for an after care program at an San Francisco Bay Area elementary school. I just started applying to teaching programs, and I'm almost done training as an HIV test counselor at the Berkeley Free Clinic. I also read/think/very occasionally write about gender and sexuality, and I'm finally getting to all those books that piled up while I was in school.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love exploring new places, meeting new people, and learning new languages and new ways of living. I'd rather get to know a city or town through its locals than by staying at a hotel or a hostel full of tourists. I want to get to know folks and make friends from all over the world.

Interests

Educational theory/practice, young adult fantasy, yoga, radical science fiction, gender and sexuality, harm reduction, political-economy, politics and current events, linguistics, etc., etc.

• books
• education
• yoga
• politics
• teaching
• languages
• law
• science
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

books (fiction): Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The Sandman, Coraline, Catch-22, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honorable Schoolboy, Smiley's People, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Farthest Shore, The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Crying of Lot 49, The Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse Five, A Universal History of Inequity, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, One Hundred Years of Solitude

books (nonfiction): Late Victorian Holocausts, On Individuality and Social Forms, Sexing the Body, The Great Transformation, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blade Runner, Annie Hall, The Shining, Sunshine, Waltz with Bashir, Terminator 2, Tokyo Godfathers, Jackie Brown, Big Trouble in Little China, The Host, Coraline, Snowpiercer

television: Breaking Bad, Paranoia Agent, old-school Star Trek, The Wire, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Foyle's War, Lain, Adventure Time

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, England, France, Iceland, Japan, Netherlands, Scotland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States