CURRENT MISSION

To help people see themselves in others.

ABOUT ME

I'm happy. My religion is just... meditation, exercise, and yoga.

I'm fun, easygoing and almost impossible to offend. I have an open personality.

Among other things, I'm into music, storytelling, philosophy, and experiments in social activism.

I love talking about big things.

I question everything, and don't hold solid beliefs of anything. I’m cynical. I’m very willing to support a cause that I think is the lesser of two evils.

PHILOSOPHY

Kind of... buddhist. I don't have faith, I'm not sure if everything means anything, but I do care a lot about the people around me. To quote Obama "...there's a lot of different forms of violence in our society and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other..." I think stories can help us see ourselves in others.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have done it twice and loved it.

Interests

Storytelling
How to construct stories from historical events.

• animals
• dogs
• exercise
• yoga
• meditation
• politics
• chess
• music
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Six Feet Under
The Avatar
Ishmael
Beatrice's Goat
Life of Pi
Freakanomics
Moneyball
Tangerine
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (and of course other books by Dr. Seuss)
Storytelling books such as 'More Ready-To-Tell Tales from Around the World' etc. And I've been getting good stories from books in Morrowind.
I love music so much. My computer is a glorified mp3 player. I even like Top 40.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Wow... well at least I've had plenty of these. I want to tell stories about these things, not try to type them out here.

Teach, Learn, Share

Public storytelling, dog training, politics 101, and computer hardware assembly. I am willing to teach you an animal balloon! Um... maybe chess?