Married, with baby girl born in summer of 2013. Former high school music/English teacher and currently a graduate student at the University of Illinois.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

Pragmatic reason: I'm a broke grad student but I still like to travel. Philosophical reason: I'm a proponent of the gift economy, reciprocity, human connection, and nonmonetized interactions (look up Charles Eisenstein if that sounds intriguing).

兴趣

Singing and playing music of all kinds, especially stuff with vocal harmonies. Also guitar, mandolin, oud, baglama, mbira, and a few other instruments. Reading, history, politics, ecology. Writing on occasion. Thinking about the state of the world and getting depressed.

• writing
• singing
• drinking
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• ecology
• teaching
• history
• languages
• road trips

音乐、电影和书籍

Music: almost anything, especially choral or forms of traditional vocal polyphony. Also bluegrass, old time, industrial, progressive metal, and nearly anything traditional or modern from the Balkans and Middle East.

Books: epic fantasy (Tolkien, Bakker, Eriksen, Wolfe), SF, comics, graphic novels, mainstream and classic fiction, and stuff I read for school (anthropology, ethnomusicology, history, critical theory).

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Driving the entire Alaska Highway, starting from Edmonton (while I wasn't the only person in the car, I really did ALL of the driving!). Got a flat tire and had to buy a new one in Anchorage, encountered a herd of 100 bison blocking the road, visited Denali National Park, Carcross, Seward, Fairbanks, Dawson City in addition to points along the AH itself.

The following year, after moving (driving) from Edmonton to central Illinois, we drove in the opposite direction and made it all the way to Key West. Needless to say, I don't mind long road trips.

教，学，和分享

Music is not the universal language, it's a whole bunch of languages that should all be appreciated and understood on their own terms.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I can teach you some 3-voice Georgian drinking songs if you rustle up a friend or two.

我游览过的国家

Armenia, Cuba, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Canada, Georgia, United States