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Overview

  • 3 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning German
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Just graduated college, and well, ya, I'll get back to you.
  • B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Arizona
  • From Phoenix,AZ
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

See the world, find love in all forms, find out what makes me happy.

ABOUT ME

I am a recent graduate of the University of Arizona. After this summer working at a private summer in Camp in Minnesota I'm going to New Zealand on a work visa for a year. I spent my school years scraping by in school and falling in love with four things: My camp, bicycles, Ultimate Frisbee, and my friends. I played ultimate for the University club team for 5 years. I'm not exactly sure what I want to do with this whole life thing yet but maybe I'm getting closer to figuring it out. For the next few years I want to work a lot of different jobs to see what appeals to me as well as having some specific adventures.

PHILOSOPHY

So much of my personal philosophy seems to keep changing that I am afraid to say anything for earnest fear that I will look back in two weeks and think I was a complete jackass. Here's what I'm pretty confident about: I think it is important to learn stuff. There are some things that accounting for circumstance are fundamentally right and wrong. Ben Stiller is not a particularly funny man.

Interests

Ultimate Frisbee at all levels, mountain biking, bike touring, bike commuting, bike maintenance, general platonic bike love, hiking, running, outdoorsyness, blogging, reading lots and lots of books, talking, cooking, any sport that I know or someone is willing to teach me, and well of course travel.

  • books
  • cooking
  • running
  • clubbing
  • reading
  • traveling
  • blogging
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • camping
  • sports
  • working visa

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Fountainhead, Catcher, Maniac Maggee, Short History of Nearly Everything, Penguin History of the World, Cavalier and Clay, Orwell in general, Freakonomics, Stumbling on Happiness, The Tipping Point, Song of Ice and Fire, Guns Germs and Steel, Phantom Tollbooth, Stargirl, Lonesome Dove, Maus, Intersteller Pig, Louis Sachar, First three Dune books, Les Miserables, Salt: A World History, of course Harry Potter, and so many many others that I cannot think of right now.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I made nationals. You can ask me why that is was amazing when we meet.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, United States

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