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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Just making sense of the world around me and doing my best to make it better
PHILOSOPHY
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. (John Lennon)
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I've surfed once and I've hosted a few times. I've met a number of other CouchSurfers along the way. Every time, I've had a terrific experience. I look forward to hosting again in the future.
Interests
Politics!, education, music, art, philosophy, travel, food (eating/cooking), new cultures and people, being easily distracted...
- arts
- education
- dining
- cooking
- politics
- traveling
- music
- teaching
Music, Movies, and Books
Music: Everything from The Clash to Mahler.
Movies: The Royal Tenenbaums, Love and Death, Interiors, Igby Goes Down, Amelie, I Heart Huckabees, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (with Gene Wilder), Wristcutters: A Love Story, Donnie Darko (director's cut), The Godfather, Authur, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Being John Malkovich, I Am Sam, What's New, Tiger Lily?, Barry Lyndon, Blowup, The War Room
Books: most Gabriel Garcia-Marquez and Kurt Vonnegut, Das Parfum by Patrick Süskind. A great deal of non-fiction.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
I used to work at the White House
Teach, Learn, Share
Conversation is one of the best (and perhaps most enjoyable) ways to learn - about anything. I'm always up for learning more about a lot and sharing a lot about the little I know myself. I like talking politics.
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
France, Germany, United States