My name is Judy. I'm really excited about starting my PhD in September on what people living through the crisis in Greece want the world to be like in the future.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing makes travel accessible for people without loads of money - instead of relying on your income, you rely on your sociability, and the generosity of strangers. It's really awesome and exactly the kind of thing the Internet is best for - making real connections between people all over the world, with real material impacts! I've couchsurfed a lot - I hitchhiked all around the Balkans, Europe and Scandinavia from February to September 2007 with my friend Ian, couchsurfing pretty much every night, and meeting some lifelong friends. I've also hosted couchsurfers from Germany, America, France and Spain.

Interests

Books, maps, architecture and city planning, geometric patterns, autonomist marxism, anthropology, critical theory, dreams, textiles, embroidery, illustration (my webcomic is glowfallover.tumblr.com). I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

• books
• architecture
• illustrations
• cooking
• vegan
• traveling
• anthropology
• cartography
• hitchhiking
• modernism
• utopianism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The Microphones/Mt Eerie, HEALTH, Goat, Forest Swords, Micachu, Burial, Arthur Russell, The Caretaker, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Why? the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Movies: Inherent Vice, The Shining, Blade Runner, Wes Anderson, Stalker, Solaris, anything by Lynch, Week End by Godard. Also lots and lots of noir.

Books: Fiction: Borges, Lovecraft, Marge Piercy, Ursula Le Guin, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, Les Enfants Terribles, China Mieville's Bas Lag trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones is largely responsible for my childhood dreamscapes and now itchy feet. Non-fiction / philosophy: Kathi Weeks, Frederic Jameson, Marx, Ernst Bloch, Nietzsche, Susan Buck-Morss.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The 7-month hitchhiking trip with Ian was pretty amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can stop hiccups with the power of the mind.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Vegan cooking!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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