CURRENT MISSION

real things and fake things

ABOUT ME

bad a finishing things, farts and burps with abandon

PHILOSOPHY

just try not to be a weenie

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

successful surfing and roommate finding when I lived in Europe, now I'm looking for someone to help me maintain my French, would really like to host someday when I live in my own true spot

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

so far so good

Interests

crosswords, cats, archives, packratting, 60s pop and soul, dress ritual, letter-writing, psychoanalysis, walking around, bike rides, making projects, learning impractical things, trying to learn things that are more practical, dogs with short snouts, train-travel, pizza, public radio

• cats
• dogs
• writing
• photography
• cooking
• baking
• walking
• traveling
• knitting
• cycling
• surfing
• racquetball
• languages
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

serpico, manhattan, it's a wonderful life, the big lebowski, annie hall, chungking express

phil spector, the drifters, fats domino, the carpenters, the specials, the supremes, patsy cline, pavement, brian jonestown massacre, the cramps, the shirelles, the misfits, the loving spoonful, townes van zandt, fleetwood mac, gram parsons

in search of lost time, the real life of sebastian knight, archive fever, billy budd, petersburg, wind-up bird chronicle

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

the 101

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: things you can do with a squash, how to pack light, the basics of knitting, bad slang.

learn: languages, bike maintenance, trying to re-teach myself photography, improve my cooking/baking skills, how to have a good daily ritual

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States