ABOUT ME

A few self-defining things I enjoy: reading and writing; sharing my fascination about good poems and films and pinning down what specifically makes them good; bar hopping and dancing; swapping life stories; going to unusual places; fictionalizing the life history of the strangers who have naively ensconced themselves two seats away from me in the subway; smiling; Amherst College reunions; ice-cream expeditions to nearby cities; beer on the grass in Fairmount park around midnight in the summer; running; long walks in the nice areas of Philly (mandatorily, with a good friend); sharing chocolate; cooking...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Brand new to CS!

Interests

literature, Bulgaria, news & politics, ice skating, travel, running, cooking, and many more!

• writing
• literature
• poetry
• dancing
• cooking
• chocolate
• beer
• running
• politics
• news
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Philip Roth ("The Ghost Writer" and "Exit Ghost;" trying to talk back to "Sabbath's Theater" and its utter unusualness; looking forward to reading more) , Exupery (which is your favorite episode of The Little Prince?), Chekhov,...

Music: anything from 80s'/90s' oldies to good recent trash (and including the Beatles and Leonard Cohen)

Movies: Good Will Hunting, The Silence of the Lambs, rom coms that I'm not gonna elaborate on here... and everything by Woody Allen!