CURRENT MISSION

Live Life, Love Life

ABOUT ME

I was born as the middle child in the middle of the United States in the middle of the state of Kansas.

According to one personality test I took, I am a Spontaneous Idealist.

I work in immigration advocacy, and am interested in various forms of public interest law, or international development. I am also eager to cultivate creative talent through entertainment law, community building, and event planning.

I enjoy living life, loving life, and exploring the Northeastern United States now that I live in the NYC metro.

PHILOSOPHY

Live, Learn, Love

"I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection." - Bertrand Russell

"There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in the sand. We are fish and we drown." - James Dean

"On the lips of men quite generally is the saying of Euphemus, which Thucydides quotes, that in the case of a king or imperial city nothing is unjust which is expedient." - Hugo Grotius

"This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou cans't not then be false to any man." - Shakespeare-Hamlet

The Golden Rule generally works.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted Dexter June 2008 in Nakajima, Japan and met a few other CSers that my friends hosted while living on the Noto Peninsula in Japan.

I got to know a good group of people in the Couchsurfing community in Cancun at various events, parties, and hostel gatherings. They were some of my closest friends when I stayed there for a few months taking in the Caribbean lifestyle.

兴趣

travel of course, music, food, sports, performance, reading and writing, social justice

• fish
• arts
• writing
• performing arts
• dining
• partying
• reading
• traveling
• music
• fishing
• sports
• swimming
• law

音乐、电影和书籍

Favorite Books: A Confederacy of Dunces, Nine Stories, Norwegian Wood

Recent favorite books: The Elephant Vanishes, A Single Man, Life of Pi

Favorite Movies: The Graduate, Nobody Knows
(Dare Mo Shiranai), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Recent favorite movies: Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Social Network

Favorite Music: Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire (These acts also happen to be three of the best live shows that I have seen.)

Recent favorite music: Bright Eyes, The xx, Ryan Harvey

Favorite Food: I enjoy sampling the various curries, BBQ, and soups of the world. I am also on a quest to discover the best burger.

My top five world cuisines:

1) Indian
2) Japanese
3) Mexican
4) Italian
5) Vietnamese

Favorite Film Directors: Mike Nichols, Richard Linklater, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Todd Haynes, The Coen Brothers...

Music on regular rotation: Radiohead, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cut Copy,

我游览过的国家

Albania, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Cambodia, Cuba, France, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States