CURRENT MISSION

Finding new ways to be amazed every day

ABOUT ME

Main ingredients for a tasty life:

-awesome books
-hot yoga
-watermelon on the beach
-couchsurfing
-new music
-skydiving
-poetry

(popping bubble wrap is up there too)

I'm irrepressible. Undaunted. Unapologetically ridiculous. Easily comfortable in new situations. Undeterred by pretension, obstacles, or convention. Thirsty for sensory input & cerebral stimulation. Good at reminding people why life is worth getting excited about.

I just finished college with degrees in English and astrophysics, and now I'm working downtown as a sleep consultant (have I mentioned that I'm an insomniac?) I also bartend at a theater in Roscoe Village.

PHILOSOPHY

"I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going."
-- Fiona Shaw

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because couchsurfers restore my faith in the kindness, generosity, and wanderlustful wonder of humanity

Interests

• books
• theater
• yoga
• music
• skydiving
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, PIHKAL, Steppenwolf, Lolita, One Hundred Years of Solitude, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Flatland, The Language Instinct, God Is Red, Sex Drugs Einstein & Elves, any poems by Szymborska, Cummings, Komunyakaa or Eliot

Music: Phantogram, Florence + the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel, Caravan Palace, Crystal Castles, School of Seven Bells, Bonobo, Caribou, Tally Hall, Metric, Regina Spektor, Beck, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Of Montreal, Beirut, Sufjan Stevens, Deadmau5, Thievery Corporation, Lemon Jelly, Common, Ellie Goulding, Sleigh Bells, Neutral Milk Hotel, Badly Drawn Boy, Interpol, Two Door Cinema Club, Ella Fitzgerald, Miike Snow, Fleet Foxes, Cold War Kids, Bassnectar, Phoenix, State Radio, Flying Lotus, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Diplo, Peanut Butter Wolf, Röyksopp, Infected Mushroom

Food: pad thai, melon of any kind, falafel, Honeycrisp apples (fuck those red "delicious"), Honey Bunches of Oats

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

jumped out of a plane on purpose

Teach, Learn, Share

People who aren't afraid to expose their ignorance on a new subject in order to learn about it faster / better. Especially when they're really into communicating their own passions to anyone curious enough to listen.

What I Can Share with Hosts

delicious, nutritious, home-cooked meals, slightly less nutritious but still delicious cocktails, playlists of music for any circumstance (room cleaning, road tripping, commuting, cardio, etc)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, France, India, Jamaica, Netherlands, Portugal