CURRENT MISSION

bringing back the word "shan't"

ABOUT ME

I am a 21-year-old nonsmoking lover of cats, travel, and all things Victorian. I'm studying English literature at the University of Michigan and hope to become a productive member of society post-graduation, potentially in the book publishing industry. I enjoy, among other things, napping, foods preserved in brine, and floral motifs.

PHILOSOPHY

Do it for the story.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have couchsurfed with a handful of lovely European persons, without whom my solo tour of Eastern Europe would have been lonely at best and dangerous at worst.

Interests

biking, cooking, procrastinating, decorating, making lists, shopping, napping, vacuuming, assessing the life choices of fictional literary characters as though they were real people, avoiding confrontation, insipid smalltalk with relative strangers, traveling, small scale adventures, tapioca pudding, bringing back the word "shan't, " Frontier Airlines, and crosswords.

• cats
• books
• literature
• cooking
• shopping
• traveling
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Catcher in the Rye, The Red Tent, Prozac Nation, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Middlesex, The Mill on theFloss, The Handmaid's Tale, Life of Pi, Prep, the Little House on the Prairie series, Little Women, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Notes from a Small Island, Harry Potter(s), Jane Eyre, Gould's Book of Fish, The Lorax, Goodnight Moon, The Bell Jar, Cat's Cradle, Everything is Illuminated, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Movies:
American Beauty, Stepford Wives, Gone With the Wind, When Harry Met Sally, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the LOTR trilogy, The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast, Moulin Rouge, The Notebook, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (original), Mona Lisa Smile, Dead Poets' Society, The Blue Lagoon, The Graduate, Love Actually, Stand By Me, Sixteen Candles, Office Space, The Sixth Sense, Pirates of the Caribbean, O, Renaissance Man, Finding Neverland, Newsies, and Titanic.
Music:
The Traveling Wilburys, Queen, Creed, Matchbox 20, Manau, assorted oldies, Yellowcard, Lifehouse, Panic! At the Disco, Vertical Horizon, Matt Kearney, Goo Goo Dolls, Simon and Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Eminem, Disney musical scores, showtunes, and church hymns.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen a double rainbow cross the Parisian sky.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can cook!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United Kingdom, United States