CURRENT MISSION

Get a haircut.

ABOUT ME

25 Random facts about me:

1. I moved to Portland five years ago on a whim. I"d never been here before but had heard good things. Three weeks after having my whim I was chugging up through Colorado in the dead of winter with a very good friend. It turned out to be a pretty good whim to act on.

2. Less than a month after moving to Portland my dog ran away never to be seen again. I had no friends, no dog, and no job. I hated Portland for the first six months I lived here.

3. Tired of not having friends I knocked on the guy's door who lived across the hall from me and who was always home playing video games on Friday night. My thought was that losers should unite. What up Jerry! We went to Tony's Tavern nearly every night for the next nine months. This is how I fell in love with the city, hanging out with the homeless at one of the diviest bars in existence.

4. I have an undergrad and masters degree and am only a few credits shy of three more undergrad degrees. I don't particularly like school, I just like having a real job even less.

5. One of those almost degrees is in Ballet. I will never finish that degree and I'm perfectly okay with that.

6. I lived with my brother for several years in Austin. We declared our house a sovereign nation called the Land of Busbania and created the company Busbania Enterprises. I was number one, he was number two as designated to us by the intercom phones we would call each other with. We schemed quite a bit, but then I got some silly whim and nothing ever came from our ideas. That house burned down two weeks after I moved.

7. I learned to whistle three different ways during the time I spent in In School Suspension in Jr. High.

8. At 12 I was caught breaking into a neighbor's house with my brother and three friends. No charges were pressed but that didn't stop my dad from constantly threatening that I was one mis-step away from prison when I was in high school.

9. At 20 I was busted for a MIP (Minor in Possession of Alcohol for all my Georgia friends) in Utah. This charge was also dropped.

10. I have not had any run-ins with the law since, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

11. I always wanted to be left handed like my dad. Consequently I wear watches on my right hand.

12. I LOVE taking standardized tests. I think I am completely alone on this one.

13. I have a massive fear of commitment of all kinds. I think buying a car is the biggest commitment I've ever made.

14. I once broke two ribs leaning backwards. Though I'm pretty sure the weakening occurred the prior weekend when I fell down some basement stairs at a kegger.

15. I distrust most people when I meet them. It is my biggest character flaw.

16. I worked the pizza business for three years and will still happily eat it for two meals a day for months on end. I truly believe it is the perfect food.

17. I will watch anything on TV. I don't believe this makes me less of a person.

18. Creepy old men hit on me in grocery stores because of my red hair. Though this happens a lot less in Oregon than it did in Texas, but maybe that's just because I'm old now.

19. I don't think there's anything wrong with crackin' a bur for breakfast.

20. I thought my birthday was July 21st until I was ten. It is the 22nd, my parents never corrected this. I think it was my sister who told me the truth.

21. In the fifth grade the school nurse told me I needed to start wearing a bra or my boobs would sag when I was older. That night when I told my mom she and my sister rolled on the floor laughing. I was doubly mortified. I still don't have saggable boobs.

22. I would kill to have a breakfast taco stand in Portland. Kolaches would be great too.

23. In catholic high school I may have compared my freshman theology teacher's sonogram video to some abortion video we'd seen a few days before. I remember a ball of fury and something about shoving it in my pipe and smoking it. I took that teacher up on the offer heavily during my ten year tenure as a student.

24. My best friend growing up once clocked me with a croquette mallet. The next day at school my fourth grade PE teacher laughed and said that if I were older she'd take me out for a beer at my uncle's bar Cody's. How did they already know I was destined to be a drunk?

25. I once chased that same friend's dad around the backyard with a baseball bat for making a bad call. Tricia says I hit him, I don't remember, all I remember was that the call was really bad.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

How do I participate? By participating?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed, you've surfed, we've all surfed.

Interests

Eating pork products, drinking beer and meeting new people.

• dogs
• ballet dancing
• dining
• breakfast
• beer
• running
• drinking
• video games
• tv
• baseball
• business
• divinity
• teaching
• law
• nursing

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Nothing I do is germane, even driving to the grocery store is amazing when I'm involved, but that's just my opinion.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have a vast collection of impractical knowledge, that's what too many years of school will do to you.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States