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Overview

  • 12 references 11 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 71, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • I am a freelance proofreader, editor, transcriptionist an...
  • B.A. in music, took a lot of literature and art history c...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

no missions, just experiences

PHILOSOPHY

kind of a socialist

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

so far, hosting

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The majority of my hosting experiences have been great.

Interests

peace & social justice, trees, music, art, reading, watching baseball, theater, film, photography, dance, animals, people, 911 Truth

  • animals
  • arts
  • theater
  • photography
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • pub crawls
  • reading
  • music
  • baseball

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm not good at picking favorites. Okay, I'll try: Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Buster Keaton, Fassbinder, Huston, Bergman, Renoir, Herzog, Scorsese, Loach, Mike Leigh, The Edge of Heaven, After the Wedding, Dr. Strangelove, Boys Don't Cry, The Full Monty, The White Ribbon, The Lives of Others, Dead Man, Celine et Julie Vont en Batteau, The Dead, 9/11 Mysteries, Zeitgeist, Manufactured Landscapes, The People Speak, The Wall

jazz, world music, classical, ethnic American music (blues, cajun, zydeco, country, Tex-Mex), Jimi, some songs from '50s musicals.

Twain, H. James, Austen, Melville, Trollope, Atwood, Arundahti Roy, Dazai, Kawabata, Akutagawa, Roger Angell, David Ray Griffin, Jim Douglass, Ian Frazier

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

the every-5-years Bulgarian folk festival
being in Fenway Park after the lights were turned out
listening to bands in Irish pubs
bicycling in France on a youth hostel trip when I was 15

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