CURRENT MISSION

Run up some mountains

ABOUT ME

I just moved to Boulder, CO after spending the better part of a year in Barcelona, Spain. I love both, but Colorado wins in cleanliness :)

I finished my Masters in English Literature spring of 2008, and have been taking some time to, as Thoreau would say, "live" for a while. It's nice to not be so pressure driven. I am going back for my PhD in the Fall 2010 semester. I love to talk books. Yes, it seems I can relate anything to a book. I'm a bit obsessed with Moby-Dick, especially its Hindu symbolism (oh believe me, it's in there!).

About 3 months ago I decided to get back into running (yeah, that thing I used to do in undergrad that paid for my school!), and have the 2009 Chicago Marathon on my radar this upcoming October. Quite an undertaking for a retired middle-distance runner! I'm very excited for it.

PHILOSOPHY

"I don't know what I want; I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty." --Gerhard Richter

"I like to live, to live my life intensely. I am the type of person who loves his life passionately. Of course, someday, I will die, but I have the impression that when I die, I will die intensely as well. I will die experimenting with myself intensely. For this reason I am going to die with an immense longing for life, since this is the way I have been living" --Paulo Freire

"What kind of an idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? -- The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world" --Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

"...in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts…the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood." --Sherwood Anderson, "Book of the Grotesque"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

When I lived in Charlotte, I would meet up with other couchsurfers at restaurants, etc. Barcelona was a bit overwhelming; I had more requests than I could handle and sort of stopped checking my inbox for a while (bad, I know!). I'm hoping to meet some cool people here in Boulder at a more relaxed pace.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've met with people at restaurants and bars, that kind of thing.

Interests

running, reading, writing, road trips, letting loose with some wild karaoke, trying new beers wines and foods...

• writing
• books
• literature
• beer
• marathon
• running
• reading
• traveling
• bouldering
• karaoke
• hinduism
• track and field
• road trips
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS:
moby dick, heart of darkness, to the lighthouse, satanic verses, midnight's children, the ground beneath her feet, shalimar the clown, the sound and the fury, invisible man, a sun also rises, catch-22, song of solomon, candide

MUSIC:
hot vegas, kings of convenience, sufjan stevens, the cat empire, santogold, rx bandits, alfie, MGMT, radiohead, gotan project, M.I.A., g love and special sauce, bloc party, the killers, sondre lerche, tribe called quest, ben folds five, erykah badu

MOVIES:
pecker, gangs of new york, darjeeling limited, amelie, vanilla sky, chicago, slackers, city of god, death to smoochy, little miss sunshine, big fish, the beach, snatch, everything is illuminated, boondocks (cartoon)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I ran Division I XC and track in college, and have lived in Spain. I love traveling solo, and my first try at that was in India. After that Europe seemed pretty easy...

Teach, Learn, Share

I love my moleskine. Must get a new one for Boulder.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Spain, United States

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