CURRENT MISSION

living in the moment. loving the unexpected.

ABOUT ME

favorite activities:
sledding, swimming in lakes, rollerskating, reading, watching really awful television, dance parties, party parties, taking naps, writing essays.

favorite day of the week:
any day when the sun is shining or the rain is pouring.

i like to sit in trees or on tall stools and dangle my legs. i don't like to jump off of things. i don't want or need to wear shoes. i have a nervous habit of pretending to type what people are saying to me.

PHILOSOPHY

i live my life because i have it to live. why else?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i just joined.. we'll see how it goes.

Interests

scrabble, politics, travel, fishermen, pirates, celebrating unknown holidays, good movies, milkshakes, fashion, knitting, cooking pasta and sometimes other things, new music and old music, trying to understand people, spain, philosophizing, shakin' it, hiking, camping, building fires, driving forklifts, the balkans.

• writing
• fashion
• dancing
• cooking
• partying
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• music
• hiking
• camping
• swimming
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

music - anything i can dance wildly and foolishly too. jazz and blues, altrock, altcountry, alt in general. folky stuff. eighties classics. frank sinatra. me singing in the shower.

movies - casablanca, ferris bueller's day off, igby goes down, the little mermaid, fight club, garden state, the breakfast club, amelie, the life aquatic, what's eating gilbert grape, the point, cinderella, i heart huckabees, roman holiday, true romance, the royal tenenbaums, better off dead, the original ocean's eleven, benny and joon, harold and maude, eternal sunshine.., snatch, 12 angry men

books - the hitchiker series, the perks of being a wallflower, the giver, the alchemist, gathering blue, snow, the giving tree, life of pi, breakfast of champions, the sun also rises, the lord of the rings trilogy, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, good as gold, watership down, cat's cradle, siddhartha, for whom the bell tolls, moby dick, everything is illuminated, narcissus and goldmund, where's waldo?, in cold blood, player piano, a prayer for owen meany, harry potter series, pride and prejudice, been down so long it looks like up to me, treasure island

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i swam in a fountain in mostar in the middle of the night, and it was deeply satisfying.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Honduras

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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