Hi! I´m a Deaf College graduate with a sociology degree.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To travel of course. :)

Interests

Writing Poetry, Making ASL poetry, Sociology, skating, reading science fiction and lovecraftian horrors, Deaf politics, cooking, food, observing and learning cultures, and so on.

• culture
• writing
• poetry
• dining
• cooking
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• science
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

I don´t listen to music, or watch many movies, but I do read a lot of books., including comic books. :) My favorite fiction genres are Social and Hard Sci-fi and Lovecraftian Horror. I also like poetries and reading scripts. As for non-fiction, really, anything about the Spanish Civil War, and few others.

My favorite books and series from the Scifi genre are:

"The Culture" series- Iain M. Banks. His "The Culture" series, while very soft science fiction, is absolutely fantastic, and is the best "soft social scifi" writer that I know of. Just think "giggly high tech" mixed with post-scarcity libertarian socialism.

"The Foundation Series"- Isaac Asimov. Asimov is one of the few "Social Science Fiction" writers. His chronology of the end of the Galactic empire and how to maintain humanity until the next great civilization through social science and faith in Seldon's prediction, with occasional manipulation s is really awesome. His writing is considered to be the cornerstone of modern Scifi.

Multiple books and series from Stephen Baxter, my favorite Hard Sci-Fi writer. I highly recommend his "Xeelee Sequence" series and the "Manifold" triology, and "Evolution."

"A Scanner Darkly," "Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?" - P. K. Dick. Dick makes lots of really trippy books that questions reality.

"Long Earth," "Long Mar," (both in collaboration with Baxter) and "The Science of Discworld." -Terry Pratchett. While he is normally a fantasy writer, he does occasionally make scifi books. In his "Discworld" series, normally fantasy, but occasionally mixed with scifi, he uses a lot of humor and make easy light reading. "The Science of Discword" in particular is hard scifi/fantasy in which a bunch of wizard living on a flat world on top of a turtle and accidentally created our universe with powerful magic.

I only wish I could find a good hard social sci-fi though.

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftagn! Here's the favorite Lovecraftian Horrors:

Anything by H. P. Lovecraft! I especially love "The Rats in the Wall," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Nameless City," "Call of Cthulhu," and "The Color out of Space."
Mystery of Amigia Fault- Ito Jimo (I think)
Neonomicon- Alan Moore
Providence-Alan Moore
And many others!

I am currently reading Lovecraft Unbound, a collection of short stories by various writers at touches on lovecraftian themes minus the tentacles. :) so far, it is fantastic.

My favorite poetries:

The Wasteland- T.S. Elliot
The Raven- Edgar Allen Poe
Corresponding Ovals- Christopher John Huer (Favorite written english Deaf poet)
And on and on.

Scripts:

The Infanta- I forget author's name.

Right now, I'm reading Hamlet by Shakesphere, and I love it so far.

Will add more to the list later!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I did my senior thesis on "Perceived Offensiveness of ASL Swear Signs." It was a taboo topic that very few people touch on. I may have been the first to do any research in symbolic interaction of Deaf ASL swearing, so I'm pretty proud of that.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can make very spicy food from my region! If you don´t like spicey food, I can tone it down. :) If hosts take me in I can offer an insight to north american Deaf culture and way of life, which most hearies are not privy to, even in the United States.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, France, Lithuania, Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United States Minor Outlying Islands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guam, Spain, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands