CURRENT MISSION

Only to connect.

ABOUT ME

Political Science and French major, studying abroad in France. Fascinated by old-timey things (some think I share the pasttimes of old men, but I'm not crotchety, I swear!). Curious. Very literary. Pianist, but not a musician. Enjoy quality conversation, though I tend to be more of the listener.

I can drink a lot of tea.

I'd like a radio show and want to be a mutton judge one day. And I like tweed, very very much.

PHILOSOPHY

1. "Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?" :: Lord Byron

2. Get out of the box, damn it.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm a CS neophyte, though should you come to Lyon, I'll bring you to the best café in the city.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CouchSurfed for the first time in the U.K.: London, followed by Oxford, Edinburgh, and then London again. It was a grand, old time, and I've converted.

兴趣

Reading. Writing. Musing. Traveling abroad. Playing piano. Ski-jumping (that is, watching, and not participating). Engaging in good conversation. Limp-wristed chuckling. Bunberrying. Dog-walking. Museum-going. Preparing pots of tea. Commiserating over cups of tea. Preparing pots of coffee. Preparing baked goods for others. Holding dinner parties. Pipe-smoking. Promoting civility. Cutting a rug to the early Beatles.

Antiquity. Pax Romana. 1800s Vienna. Austrian Expressionism. A call to charms. Instant Karma! Languages, especially Russian. Wit. "Be-ins." Boho poésie. Sitars. Dachshunds (their legs are so helpless!). Philosophy. Properly executed alliteration. NPR and The Economist.

• dogs
• writing
• coffee
• walking
• partying
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• piano
• skiing
• boxing
• economics
• languages
• political science
• science

音乐、电影和书籍

:: To simplify matters...

Supposing I was doomed to an eternity on a desert island, I choose Casablanca; The Royal Tenenbaums; Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers; Pulp Fiction; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

:: Classical music tickles my fancy, especially Liszt, Paganini, and Schubert. On the other side of the spectrum, the Beatles, David Bowie, hippie music, Radiohead, general straight-ahead jazz, Django Reinhardt.

:: In general, if you'd like to talk books, let's talk Dickens, Fitzgerald, Hardy, Waugh, and Wilde.

教，学，和分享

TEACH :: I'm not English, but I do make a mean scone.
:: David Bowie tunes, anyone?

LEARN :: I rather like the idea of foxtrotting, so if someone would be the Fred and teach me to be the Ginger, I'm much obliged.

我游览过的国家

Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

France, United States