CURRENT MISSION

eat lots of candy without regret

ABOUT ME

I'm a self-proclaimed geek (of science fiction, of technology, of epic academic nerdom) from Wisconsin but I've relocated to San Francisco to start a new way of life for myself.

I love TV, love to read. Love to write. I'm just as likely that I can ramble about Doctor Who and Torchwood (British television, yay!) as I will babble about Muslim feminists and Christian philosophers.

I'm addicted to soda, I voraciously read current news and I love to bike.

>>Last books I read: Sister Mary Ignatious Explains It All For You by Christopher Durang
>>Currently Reading: Descent into Chaos: The US and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid and Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

PHILOSOPHY

"We must for dear life make our own counterrealities." -Henry James

"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate." -John Keats

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

*surfed on Stefania's bed in Milano, Italy! and met TONS OF FANTASTIC PEOPLE at the Milan CS meeting!! <3

*surfed on Kaja, Chrigu and Coona's couch in Bern, Switzerland!

*met up with Navi in Berlin for lunch and great conversation!

*Surfed at Gabrielle's place in Aberdeen, Scotland in March 2008

*CS Underground in SF every Wednesday. Come to Cafe Royale for drinks and great conversation!

Interests

watching movies, video editing, graphic design, writing, reading, cycling, archeology, history, literature, poetry, television, feminism, dreams, fairytales, politics, economics, eating sweets, journaling, science fiction

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• design
• graphic design
• womens rights
• drinking
• politics
• technology
• news
• movies
• reading
• tv
• cycling
• archeology
• economics
• history
• medicine
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Serenity, Stargate, The Lion King, Indiana Jones, The Good Shepherd, any and all science fiction/political thrillers. Steve Martin comedies, too. I love TV shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, obscure Canadian TV shows like due South. Music: Bad Religion, The Decemberists and Colin Meloy, Of Montreal and Architecture in Helsinki, Moxy Fruvous, The Mountain Goats, VNV Nation, Adema, The Sounds, The Smithereens, Pink, Linkin Park, Interpol, NoFX -- I just love a lot of music. Books: Ender's Game, Phillip Pullman for fantasy, CJ Cherryh's books, Poetry by John Keats, Anne Sexton, Louise Gluck.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Aberdeen Weekend from Abbey on Vimeo.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Italy, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States