CURRENT MISSION

Find a job, and move out of my hometown.

ABOUT ME

I'm an easy going and laid back kind of person, just back from the Peace Corps and spending some time at home. I like spring in the Midwest and black coffee.

PHILOSOPHY

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." -- Atticus Finch

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

No space to host and no time off to surf, so just hanging out at the moment.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted a handful of amazing CSers over the past year, and have nothing but great things to say about CS. What an amazing way to bring people together!

Interests

Reading, cooking, baking, rainy days, english football, boris pasternak, ice cream, food blogs, russian literature, stationery, good pens, This American Life, foreigners, NPR, The Week In Review, crosswords, hiking

• literature
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• baking
• reading
• hiking
• soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Thud!, In a Sunburned Country, The Master and Margarita, Cry The Beloved Country, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Ella Minnow Pea, Middlesex, East of Eden, A Walk in the Woods, Things Fall Apart, Grapes of Wrath, Everything Is Illuminated, To Kill A Mockingbird, Absurdistan, A Farewell To Arms

Music: cat power, miles davis, the strokes, billie holiday, the new pornographers, radio head, frou frou, ratatat, the virgins, the national, the ting tings, cocorosie, blind pilot, vampire weekend

Movies: Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Lives of Others, The Third Man, Casablanca, Good Will Hunting, Somewhere, The Life Aquatic

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watched Kok-Par (Kazakh polo with a headless sheep carcass) in the middle of the steppe

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Kyrgyzstan, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, United States

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