Like everyone else, I'm just trying my best. Law student in the chilly northeast.

PHILOSOPHY

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

--Robert A. Heinlein

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is great! I'm an old-school CS-er, and have seen many, many iterations of this dumb website (it's finally looking somewhat decent again). When I'm able to host I really like hosting; it's fun to show people stuff they wouldn't think to visit normally. Surfing is wonderful for the same reason... the inverse reason? You know what I mean. I like meeting new people with really different viewpoints, and most people I've met on CS have been, at minimum, good-natured and interesting.

It's also a way to make traveling more affordable, and therefore accessible, to a wider population. I think travel, especially immersive travel, is really valuable for broadening perspective and anything that makes that more attainable for more people is a good thing in my book.

Interests

Languages, yoga, vegetarian cooking, feminism, history, traveling, astronomy, poetry.

• insects
• books
• poetry
• design
• dancing
• womens rights
• cooking
• recipes
• vegetarian
• yoga
• drinking
• traveling
• backpacking
• surfing
• astronomy
• history
• languages
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: bluegrass, folk, strong emotions, an indifferent student to the way of punk, etc.

Books: Haruki Murakami, Kiran Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. LeGuin

Movies: Harold and Maude, Spirited Away, various silly John Woo films

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen some really beautiful things, but one day I made friends with a four-month-old beagle puppy and then discovered a fruiting loquat tree in the yard of an abandoned house, and I think that's a pretty good day also.

Teach, Learn, Share

Tunas are endothermic; they can maintain body temperatures 30 degrees F above ambient water temperatures. Grade school bio done you wrong, friends.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A wealth of information if you ever want to travel in China or drink and dance in New Orleans, that's for sure. A smaller sum of knowledge if you're aiming to wander around Japan. Stories, interesting recipes, terrible ice skating technique... I'm really good at washing dishes?

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, South Korea, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Japan, United States

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