I love live music, long runs, good books, nerdy people, and string cheese. I grew up in northern California (Berkeley) but went to undergrad in western Massachusetts (Williamstown). Now I'm a grad student tryna make a home in Boston. Every summer I go down to Panama to subsist on avocado and chase frogs with my ecologist friends.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

New friends :)

Interests

training for my 4th full marathon
taking lots of lead falls at the local climbing gym
trying to climb outside as much as possible
finishing up my SCUBA certification
pursuing my PhD
sleeping as lions eat

• birds
• books
• dancing
• bachata
• cheese
• marathon
• running
• music
• live music
• scuba diving
• ecology
• sign language

Music, Movies, and Books

Gabriel Garcia Marquez*, Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace, Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O'Connor, Tim O'Brien, Franz Kafka, Norton's Anthology of Short Fiction, etc. I should really be reading papers instead of books but why not both?

Studio Ghibli*, Donnie Darko, Amelie, City of God, Oldboy, Her... I'm slowly working my way through the IMDB top 250

Game of Thrones*, The Wire, House of Cards, Louie, American Horror Story, Sherlock

Javon Johnson, Taylor Mali, Sarah Kay*, Patrick Roche, Kevin Kantor, Neil Hilborn.

Atmosphere*, Dumbfoundead, Childish Gambino, Bastille, Pretty Lights, K'naan, Miguel, Guardians of the Galaxy OST*, The Tallest Man on Earth, Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment, Weeknd, Allen Stone, Zion T.

burritos, sushi, tomatoes, fresh eggs

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Panama, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Panama, South Korea, United States