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Overview

  • 6 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • I live the life of a graduate student
  • BS in Environmental Science from University of Kansas, MA...
  • From Kansas City
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to live and learn.

ABOUT ME

I'm currently working on a master's in GIS and Remote Sensing; subfields of Geography.

PHILOSOPHY

"Our spiritual possibilities will largely depend on what we are as "selves". In physical terms, each of us is a system, locked in an uninterrupted exchange of matter and energy with the larger system of the earth. The life of your very cells is built upon a network of barter and exchange over which you can exercise only the crudest conscious influence-- in the form of deciding whether to hold your breath or take another slice of pizza out of the fridge. As a physical system, you are no more independent of nature at this moment than your liver is of the rest of your body. As a collection of self-regulating and continually dividing cells, you are also continuous with your genetic precursors: your parents, their parents, and backward through tens of millions of generations-- at which point your ancestors begin looking less like men and women with bad teeth and more like pond scum. It is true enough to say that, in physical terms, you are little more than an eddy in a great river of life."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I supply couches!

Interests

reading, being outdoors (hiking, biking, camping, jogging, fishing, getting myself lost in the woods), Guitar, drums, concerts, photography, my little brother(s) and sister, friends, good beer, chicken and pork adobo, spinach, flaming hot cheetos, caffeine and the various ways of consuming it, biology, energy, alternative energy, not having car problems, trying to keep my plants alive, perfecting my culinary skills, planning sweet vacations that I never actually go on, frisbee.

  • photography
  • concerts
  • beer
  • exercise
  • reading
  • guitar
  • drums
  • outdoor activities
  • cycling
  • fishing
  • hiking
  • camping
  • biology
  • geography

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Ishmael, 1984, Life of Pi, End of Faith, Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, LOTR, Beak of the Finch, Your Inner Fish, Catcher in the Rye

Some Music: Boards of Canada, Ulrich Schnauss, M83, Isis, Red Sparrowes, Tycho, Fleet Foxes, Boris, Sigur Ros, Agalloch, Pink Floyd, Cult of Luna

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