Interests

Walking/Hiking/Biking/Running/Riding Buses and Subways (any transportation that gives me time to think and really see things)

Exploring where I live, and where I don't live.

Reading--everything. Books, museum plaques, magazines, menus. You know, all the good stuff with words on it.

Cooking. And good hole-in-the-wall bars.

Discussions. Figuring life out. Learning things.

• humanities
• books
• cooking
• coffee
• running
• walking
• reading
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• economics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Current reading:

Maps and Legends.

What is the What.

A Buddhist History of the West.

Common Ground Magazine.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have been to the pyramids in Egypt maybe a dozen times, though I was born and raised in Indiana and seem completely Irish-American (I'm half Egyptian).

I think the Bay Area's pretty amazing, and I'm seeing a lot of it all the time.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am good at cooking healthy, whole meals that are easy and on the cheap.

Excellent judge of good coffee (most of my pay checks have come from coffee shops).

Good at relating to people. In the nice, pretty way. The midwestern friendliness, with the Bay Area urbaness mixed in together.

Hardcore abilities to "navigate the system," -- i.e. government, regulations, guides, what's going on.

I can scull, and I live by a marina.

I'm into learning most things. Right now I'm really into outdoors/athletic/adventure-y learning (because I didn't grow up learning that stuff), and learning about anything science, economics, or europe (I studied humanities, and have traveled only in the Middle East so far, with the exception of a one week trip to spain. Major goal to change that lack-of-europe knowledge in the next three years).