CURRENT MISSION

To experience new people and things, especially when stuck in one place as I am now.

ABOUT ME

While I am a bit of an introvert, I am an open, friendly, and polite person. My favorite things are a good book, a good cup of coffee, and a good conversation. Having strong relationships with family and friends is very important to me! I am very no nonsense, but that shouldn't keep you from being silly or anything like that. I enjoy all types of people, appreciate all kinds of humor, and am over-all a very open-minded person.

Among my favorite pastimes, I like to read, eat and drink, talk in all settings (to close friends, to new acquaintances, to strangers--though I'm not very good at initiating such situations, in class, etc...), learning in and outside of school, traveling, hiking, taking photos, and so forth. I like new experiences in general.

PHILOSOPHY

Know yourself, and treat everyone in the way in which you'd like them to treat you. Also, never stop learning.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At the moment I participate by creating a profile. I would love to eventually couch surf, but being a student and holding down a job--or two--makes that difficult. Another problem is that Alabama in not such a heavily-frequented place like New York, so there aren't too many events that reach this far.

I am never as involved in anything as I'd like to be!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My couch surfing experiences are limited at the moment! I am hoping to expand as soon as possible.

Interests

Books. I am always reading for fun, I'm an English Major in school, and I work in a library. Books take up a significant amount of my time.

Music. I like all kinds of music, but there is a special place in my heart/CD-rack for Folk and Bluegrass. I play violin and, among my accomplishments there I have traveled extensively and played in Carnegie Hall. I also play guitar, a little, and some mandolin.

Conversation. When I have a choice in how a pass a Saturday night, it would be in an intimate setting with a good beverage and an even better conversation.

• books
• coffee
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• violin
• hiking
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Tin Hat Trio, Joanna Newsom, Liszt, Sigur Ros, Gogol Bordello, Modest Mouse, Bon Iver, Bartok, Old Crow Medicine Show, Brand New, Avett Brothers, Death Cab for Cutie, Blind Melon,
mewithoutYou, Tom Waits, Chopin, The White Stripes, Iron and Wine, Destroyer,and everything else ever.

Books: Dostoevsky--Notes From Underground; Faulkner, Wiliam; Gaiman--American Gods and The Sandman Series; Kingsolver--The Poisonwood Bible; Lee--To Kill a Mockingbird; McCarthy--No Country for Old Men; Mccullers--The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Nabokov--Lolita; O'Connor, Flannery; Woolf, Virginia. Also, any poetry by T. S. Eliot.

Movies: 21 Grams, 28 Days Later, Adaptation, Anne of Green Gables, The Big Lebowski, Bonnie and Clyde, Burn After Reading, Cold Mountain, Donnie Darko, El Dorado, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Fight Club, Inglourious Basterds, Into the Wild, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Legend of 1900, The Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, Magnolia, The Neverending Story, No Country for Old Men, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Outsiders ("Stay gold, Pony Boy."), Paper Moon, Pi, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Royal Tenenbaums, Shawshank Redemption, Sling Blade, The Straight Story, There Will be Blood, To Kill a Mockingbird, True Grit...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Doing/seeing anything is amazing!

Teach, Learn, Share

Recognize "people" as individuals. Be kind. Or, if you can't be that, be sincere.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States