CURRENT MISSION

Make every moment count.

ABOUT ME

I'm your standard-issue corporate-hippie hybrid.

Trust me, it'll make sense in a little bit.

PS I just found out that I have an Erdös number of 3. I'm a little psyched by this.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been hosting people in Portland, Maine. I'd like to couchsurf in the near future, or volunteer.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been surreally lucky: I'm relatively new to couchsurfing, but I've been meeting the most interesting people.

Just to keep track, here are the people I've hosted so far:

September 2009
* 5 -- Megan Long, Leona Dalphond + 1 (Orono, ME)
* 15-17 -- Callum Macdonald (Scotland?)

October 2009
* 5-6 -- Matt Lipschutz (Stove!) + 3 (Connecticut)
* 7 -- Matt Dunlap (Virginia)
* 9-10 -- Beth Bruzzi + Katie (Jersey City, New Jersey)
* 11-13 -- Monique Biermann (Netherlands)
* 15-20 -- Matt Lipschutz (Connecticut)

November 2009
* 4 -- Colin Gowland (Toronto)
* 18 -- Jean-Francois Chapman (Ottawa)

December 2009
* 3 -- Brett Jensen and Jonathan Scott (Dallas, Texas)
* 10-13 -- Kevin Shi (San Francisco, California)
* 30-January 1 -- Surfed with Johnny Driscoll (Charlottetown, Canada)

January 2010
* 3 -- Pat Haggerty and Tyler (New Jersey)
* 11-14 -- Martin Hansen and Marieke Klauder (Denmark)

April 2010
* 23-25 -- Andy Avila (Rhode Island)
* 27-29 -- Will Boal (Oregon)

May 2010
* 3 -- Will Boal (Oregon)
* 29 -- Dirk Quinn + band (Philadelphia)

June 2010
* 1 -- Dirk Quinn + band (Philadelphia)
* 11-13 -- Maria Grillo, Jen, Marcie (Albany)

Interests

I like people, and figuring out how things work.

• cooking
• chess
• juggling
• knitting
• hiking
• bungee jumping
• track and field
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Copy-pasted from facebook:

Favorite Music:
Basshunter, Boys Like Girls, 3Oh!3, Paramore, Panic! At The Disco, Cobra Starship, jazz, American pop music, Danger Radio, The Veronicas, music that terrorizes other engineers' ears, Spamalot, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, Miss Saigon, Tom Waits, Freezepop, Tracy Chapman, Joshua Radin, A Particularly Vicious Rumor, Richard Cheese, ska, Mucca Pazza, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Cobra Starship, Regina Spektor, Bonobo, A Fine Frenzy

Favorite TV Shows:
CSI, Mythbusters, Chuck, Pushing Daisies, Firefly, Nip/Tuck, most reality shows (I draw the line right BEFORE Flavor of Love and I Love New York), figure skating competitions, cooking shows in general, House, 30 Rock, This American Life

Favorite Movies:
500 Days of Summer, Moon, The Incredibles, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Serenity, The Thirteenth Floor, Hot Fuzz, Enchanted, Juno, Sweeney Todd, Mostly Martha, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Nina's Heavenly Delights, WALL-E, The Dark Knight, Music And Lyrics

Favorite Books:
Freakonomics, White Oleander, The Time Traveler's Wife, cheesy trashy romance novels, almost anything else

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking five miles in the California heat and bungee jumping off a bridge to combat my fear of heights.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to knit, and maybe how to read palms. If you can't cook, we can work on that! I can also teach you how to play chess.

If you know how to do one of these things, I'd love to learn from you:

* Juggle
* Spin fire
* Speak another language

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Philippines, United States

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