CURRENT MISSION

Learn more, consume less.

ABOUT ME

I'm a traveller and a perpetual student. I just started a new job as a professor in a university near Cincinnati. I teach heterodox economics and political economy.

Since I'm in the middle of moving and setting up here, I not likely to have space available. Sorry!

PHILOSOPHY

Evolving. With intention.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfed and had surfers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not much yet. That's something I would like to change.

Interests

Reading, traveling, politics, political economy, good beer, better wine, theatre, ballet, art, playing pool, cheap beer, amazing beer, brewing beer, baseball, scuba.
Pretty much everything except for American country music.

• arts
• dancing
• ballet dancing
• wine
• beer
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• billiards
• music
• scuba diving
• baseball
• rock climbing
• economics
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors: Marx, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Voltaire, Dickens, Henry James, John Kennedy Toole, Hegel, David Sedaris

Movies: South Park, Waking Life, Chicago, Ballet Russes, Great Expectations, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Music: Everything But The Girl, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Bjork, Portishead, Dirty Vegas, Chopin, Daft Punk, Groove Armada, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Cake, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Matisyahu, Deep Dish, Johnny Cash, Gotan Project, Pete Yorn, Delerium, Tiesto, Erik Satie, Nightmares on Wax, Phoenix, Fatboy Slim, Mozart, Phish, Herbaliser, Thelonious Monk, Jack Johnson, Kosheen, Ligeti,Paul Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, Luscious Jackson, Thievery Corporation, Sublime, Ravel, Tabla Beat Science, Moby, Rimsky-Korsakov, Royksopp

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing thing I've seen is how helpful people can be when someone is lost or traveling. It always surprises me a little bit even though I see it all the time.

Teach, Learn, Share

Special knowledge...I know mostly boring things about data analysis and fun things about postmodernism and political/power theories. I know what a current account deficit is and I understand financial liberalization.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Beer and/or good stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Croatia, France, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa, United States

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