CURRENT MISSION

To see the world and write about my experiences.

ABOUT ME

I am a writer presently living in Albany. I've lived on three continents and love to travel. I'm currently in grad school studying public administration, and I am interested in ultimately either managing a nonprofit or working for the government. I'm a big reader and I'm into old/indie movies. I typically prefer older rock, alternative, indie rock, and blues. I also enjoy cooking/baking and I practice yoga. I'm open to meeting new people so if you're in Albany and want to grab coffee or a meal, feel free to shoot me a message. Unfortunately, due to my present living situation, I cannot host right now.

PHILOSOPHY

"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life."-Pablo Neruda

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting and surfing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've couchsurfed in Germany and the US, and it's always been a good experience!

Interests

My three favorite things above anything else are: reading, writing, and traveling.

• writing
• cooking
• coffee
• baking
• yoga
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• intersectional feminism

Music, Movies, and Books

Some of my favorite movies are Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, Moonlight, Eat Drink Man Woman, Rear Window, Poltergeist, Amelie, Roman Holiday, Rebel Without a Cause, Rebecca, Sabrina, Goodfellas, Reality Bites, Gremlins, Chungking Express, The Godfather 1+2, Funny Girl, 2 Days in Paris, Le Havre, The Way We Were, Strangers on a Train, Shopgirl, It's a Wonderful Life, Amreeka, The Separation, All About Eve, Garden State, It Happened One Night, Heathers, Lust Caution, Sixteen Candles, An Education, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Rules of Attraction, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Philadelphia Story, Y tu Mamá También, and Short Term-12.

Some of my favorite bands/singers are Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Billie Holiday, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Bright Eyes, Van Morrison, Death Cab for Cutie, Alabama Shakes, The Velvet Underground, Belle and Sebastian, Sufjan Stevens, The Smiths, Cecile McLorin Salvant, The Shins, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joni Mitchell, Smashing Pumpkins, Simon and Garfunkel, Sam Cooke, The Decemberists, Amy Winehouse, and Jenni Lewis.

Some of my favorite books/plays/short stories are: Slaughterhouse-Five, IT, The Bell Jar, The Blind Assassin, Minor Characters, Americanah, Wuthering Heights, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Minor Characters, Just Kids, At Home in the World, Door Wide Open, Norwegian Wood, Missing Men, Different Seasons, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Travels with Charley, Dead End Gene Pool, No Angel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, On Writing, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Interpreter of Maladies, Minaret, Gone Girl, The Kite Runner, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, In a Sunburned Country, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Women, Dress Yourself in Corduroy and Denim, Dry, Tales of the City, On the Road, Off the Road, The Thing Around Your Neck, Killing Yourself to Live, Bare, The Great Gatsby, Cat's Cradle, A Man Without a Country, I Feel Bad About My Neck, Atonement, The Lovely Bones, Assassination Vacation, Stuffed, Breakfast of Champions, World War Z, The Rum Diary, This is How You Lose Her, American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., The Metamorphosis, Good Country People, The Swimmer, Cartwheel, Big Sur, Shocked, Drown, I Remember Nothing, The Stand, The Dharma Bums, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Neighbour Rosicky, How Should a Person Be?, The Unknowns, Then Again, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Getting Stoned with Savages, Beautiful Boy, How to be a Woman, Angela's Ashes, Angels in America, Antigone, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Things They Carried, Demonic Males, Apron Anxiety, At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers, Bossypants, Why is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, My Horizontal Life, Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea, Bridget Jones' Diary, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Woman on a Roof, The Wordy Shipmates, A Walk in the Woods, Siddhartha, Seating Arrangements, Into the Wild, The Glass Castle, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Unfamiliar Fishes, Second Child, The Collection, The Homing, and Wanderlust.

Some of my favorite writers/poets are: Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris, Roxane Gay, Pablo Neruda, Joyce Johnson, Sylvia Plath, Junot Diaz, W.H. Auden, Sherman Alexie, Yiyun Li, Frank O'Hara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chuck Klosterman, Haruki Murakami, Anne Sexton, Jami Attenberg, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ann Patchett, Elisabeth Eaves, Zadie Smith, Kevin Kwan, Ariel Levy, Patricia Volk, Celeste Ng, and Bill Bryson.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I moved to Vietnam and Germany alone and jobless not knowing anyone there.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Cambodia, Canada, Germany, Honduras, Ireland, Mexico, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States, Viet Nam

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