I am about 60% water by mass, and 10% human by cell-count. I enjoy learning/imagining about the unlikely, inter-tangled, sedimented, (igneous?) and metamorphic histories of everyday objects, geological formations, biological phylogenies, geographic places, and human beings including myself. I also enjoy maple syrup, pastries, the concept of glaciers, thoughts about how the universe and life evolved and also how they ultimately will end, complexity theory, reading/writing stories/poems/essays, drawing in pencil, guitar and violins, very long sentences/lists, surfing, botanical gardens, the ocean, darkroom photography, political/economic theory, too much coffee, museums, hiking through cities and mountains, woodworking, contemplating tree-rings, riding bicycles very fast at night, learning about other peoples' inner worlds, and also many other things. INTP if you believe in psychometrics, Cancer if you prefer the occult; while I don't place my trust in either, both describe me accurately. I don't know what to make of this. I "travel" less than I once did, but still cover a lot of ground in the process of warding off existential uncertainty by experimenting with new locales. When I'm more settled, I look forward to hosting, and perhaps eventually getting too comfortable and taking off for another adventure. In the mean time I look forward to meeting CS folks when the stars align, and hope to host again one day soon.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have Couchsurfed in British Columbia, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Norway, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, New Mexico, California, and Arizona.

Interests

• writing
• photography
• politics
• painting
• drawing
• biology
• ecology
• history
• philosophy
• science
• sociology
• local history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: "Days and Nights of Love and War" by €Eduardo Galeano, "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy, "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin, The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Neapolitan tetralogy by Elena Ferrante, "Memoirs of a Revolutionary" by Victor Serge, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Imperium" by Ryszard Kapuscinski, "The Prophet" by €Khalil Gibran, "Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences" by Byrne & Callaghan, "The Practice of the Wild" by €Gary Snyder, "The Web of Life" by Fritjof Capra, "The Condition of Postmodernity" by David Harvey, "Top 40" by Brandon Brown, NYRB
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Films: Princess Mononoke, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, The Lives of Others, Reds, Persepolis, Blue is the Warmest Color (in spite of the overly pornographic sex which bummed me out), (honestly) Brokeback Mountain, The Cruise (documentary, 1998), Synecdoche New York, Les Miserables (film)
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Music: Efterklang, Iron & Wine, Owen Pallett, Kings of Convenience, The Album Leaf, Sigur Ros, The National, Mojave 3, Astor Piazzola, The Mountain Goats, Andrew Bird, Cat Power, Joni Mitchell, The Acorn, Olafur Arnalds, Gillian Welch, Fleetwood Mac
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Misc: Magic the Gathering, XKCD, Pictures for Sad Children
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Webs:
http://dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com, http://democracynow.org, http://earth.nullschool.net/, http://antievictionmap.com/, http://blog.mbl.edu/?p=3285, http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/reese/classes/artistsbooks/The%20Library%20of%20Babel.pdf, http://www.symphonyofscience.com/videos.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes,
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/all/all/show/2014/

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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