CURRENT MISSION

Get through 1 more year of school.

ABOUT ME

Alright here it goes... Right now I'm in Grad school out in Richmond Virginia, studying advertising. Specifically copywriting, which is someone who writes the ads and comes up with the ideas.

But advertising isn't really my passion. My real passion is in literature. I get a rush, that grips me into stories, whether I'm reading them or writing them. And writing stories, telling them, or hearing other people's stories is how I like spending my time.

I always up for an adventure, a bit of mischief, and would say that I'm an enemy of the ordinary.

PHILOSOPHY

The philosophies I aspire to live by:

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.- Jack Kerouac

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.- Henry David Thoreau

Books are the carriers of civilization, without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a stand still.- Henry David Thoreau

My own philosophy?
Still working on that one. But I look at life as an adventure and everything is worth trying twice.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

To be honest, I just got involved in the community. I found out about it through StumbleUpon, and immediately wanted to get involved.

Originally, I picked CS for an advertising class project. So I do have these Couch Surfing ads and Guidebooks that I mocked up. So I could definitely donate or contribute those, if I only knew who to send them to?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I just joined the community a little bit ago and I'm just now beginning to look for ways to get involved.
I'll be happy to update this as soon as I host or surf a time or two.

Interests

Huge fan of baseball, to the extent that if someone says a year my first inclination is to think which baseball team won the World Series that year.
But I'm pretty much into any and all sports. Football, racquetball, basketball, hockey, volleyball, ultimate frisbee. You name it, I've tried it, or will play it. I'm pretty competitive.

Obviously I'm interested in travel, otherwise I wouldn't be a part of the sight. Although I don't have the funds to travel as much as I'd like. I have traveled all over USA, seen 38 out of the 50 states, done Canada and Mexico. But my biggest regret is that I still have yet to get off of this continent.

But that's about to change.

• writing
• books
• literature
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• surfing
• sports
• baseball
• basketball
• soccer
• hockey
• racquetball
• volleyball
• business
• history
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Damn. There's way too many to list.
I guess I'll do a top 7 for each.

Movies: 1) City of God 2)American Beauty 3) The Birdcage 4) The Jerk 5) Memento 6) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 7) The Orphanage

Music: 1) The Kinks 2) Miles Davis 3) Beatles 4) Kanye West 5) Antibalas and Afrobeat Orchestra 6) Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 7) Gorillaz

Books: 1) Rant 2) The Sun Also Rises 3) Fear and Loathing (both on the Campaign Trail 72' and Las Vegas 4) Blue Highways 5) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 6) Island of Dr. Moreau 7) On the Road

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A few days prior to Spring Break one year in college, a friend and I had a great idea to drive out to California from Kansas. The road trip ended with 33 hours straight in the car. By the time we got to Texas though, we realized that there was a possibility of getting to the Grand Canyon right at sunrise. Even though it was already midnight. So we drove about 90 to 105 miles per hour across the desert plains through western Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. But alas, we did arrive at the Grand Canyon just minutes before sunrise. It was and still is the most majestic, peaceful, and beautiful things I've ever seen in my life. And was a million times better than anything I saw once we got out to California.

Teach, Learn, Share

Most of my knowledge is rooted in literature or, unfortunately, advertising and marketing. So I can probably help with business solutions and communicating a message.

But much more practically, I did spend 2 summers as a carpenter. Thus, I'm pretty well versed in framing, dry wall, roofing, mudding, painting, and any other house building or reconstruction jobs.

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