CURRENT MISSION

To travel through time and space! Or...maybe just space.

ABOUT ME

I coordinate publicity for science fiction books, write minotaur and cannibal-centric stories, and travel any time I get the chance. LeVar Burton once saved me from bees on TV, I went to a college with no majors or grades, and I'm prone to leading impromptu Chant Club sessions any/everywhere.

PHILOSOPHY

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”

― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've helped spread the word about CS in Kazakhstan and have gotten quite a few new people to sign up!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've met a lot of great CSers in my travels, hosted and surfed, and met up for coffee and various CS events.

Interests

Writing, traveling, backstreets; bike rides, late nights, soulful cities; Scandinavian music, Turkish meals, British TV; dancing crazy, eating something new and delicious, sampling local beers; afternoons in cinemas, 2012, good books and myths.

• writing
• books
• dancing
• beer
• coffee
• clubbing
• tv
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• communications
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The Knife and Fever Ray, Talking Heads, Ravens & Chimes, Nina Simone, Lykke Li, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Jens Lekman, David Bowie, CocoRosie, Janelle Monáe, Jacques Brel

Authors: Jorge Luis Borges, Orhan Pamuk, David Foster Wallace, Neil Gaiman, Mircea Eliade, Kelly Link, Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Lynda Barry, Robertson Davies, Haruki Murakami, Alberto Manguel, Carl Jung

Movies: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Blue Velvet, Låt den rätte komma in, El Laberinto Del Fauno, Y tu mamá también

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Driving across the U.S.; seeing the sun set over Cappadocia; moving to Kazakhstan for two years.

visited 40 states (80%)Create your own visited map of The United States or jurisdische veraling duits?

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to make stuffed peppers, homemade veggie burgers, or Oreo truffles (among other things). I also have a wealth of random knowledge on topics ranging from creative writing and myth theory to teaching English as a foreign language to who that one guy was in that movie one time.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Australia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Norway, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kazakhstan, Turkey, United States

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