CURRENT MISSION

Hosting!

ABOUT ME

I'm 23, grew up in Illinois and spent most of my awesome college years there, then just decided to take a chance with a man in Hawaii. And now, here I am! I love reading, writing, coffee, jazz, hard rock, drinking, traveling, and meeting new people and taking a piece of them with me, metaphorically speaking. :) If you want to know more like what movies, bands, specific books, and so-forth that I enjoy, feel free to ask! I'm open to anything, really.

PHILOSOPHY

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”
-- Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

"One word, one gesture, and all that is pent up in you - festered resentments, gangrenous jealousies, superfluous desires - unfulfilled - all that will burst out of you in angry impotent tears - in embarrassed sobbing and blubbering to no one in particular. No arms will enfold you, no voice will say, 'There, There. Sleep and forget.' No, in your new and horrible independence you feel the dangerous premonitory ache, arising from little sleep and taut strung nerves, and a feeling that the cards have been stacked high against you this once, and that they are still being heaped up. An outlet you need, and they are sealed. You live night and day in the dark cramped prison you have made for yourself."
--The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm not sure. Just joined and wouldn't mind hosting to a couch-surfer.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had none myself, but my friend Ryan and Anna suggested it.

Interests

See above in the "About Me" section. :) But I'll add more:

Long conversations, being spontanious, road trips, coffee shop talk, books, shopping, poetry, movies, star gazing, writing short stories and songs, singing when I know I can't, and trying to hunt down a Volkswagon Van to buy.

• arts
• writing
• books
• poetry
• singing
• theater
• performing arts
• coffee
• drinking
• shopping
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• jazz
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

TV shows: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, 30 Rock, Dexter, Angel, Doctor Who, America's Next Top Model, Celebrity Rehab, Robot Chicken, Venture Brothers, Family Guy, Project Runway, Heroes, Intervention, How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, Metalocolypse

Music: Anais Mitchell, Andrew Bird, Ani Difranco, Aqualung, Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Astronaut, The Beatles, Billie Holiday, Bloc Party, Blue Meanies, Breaking Benjamin, Bullet for My Valentine, Camille, Chevelle, Cold, Coldplay, Cream, Damien Rice, Danger Doom, Dean Martin, Deftones, Dethklok, Disturbed, The Doors, Drowning Pool, The Eagles, Edgewater, Eels, Evans Blue, Explosions in the Sky, Falling Up, Field Music, Five Finger Death Punch, Foo Fighters, The Forecast, Frank Sinatra, The Fray, From First To Last, Frou Frou, Giacomo Puccini, Gob Iron, Grateful Dead, Guns N' Roses, Heart, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Josh Ritter, Journey, Kaki King, Kan'Nal, Kanye West, Killswitch Engage, Lisa Germano, The Lonely Island, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Mamas & The Papas, The Mars Volta, Matthew Good Band, Metallica, Mexican Institute of Sound, Mutemath, Nelly Furtado, Nick Drake, The Notwist, Paul McCartney, The Pierces, Pinback, Pink Floyd, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Saliva, Shiny Toy Guns, Silverchair, Sleater-Kinney, Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins, Splender, Spoon, Stars, Static-X, Stereophonics, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sufjan Stevens, System of a Down, Tenacious D, Third Eye Blind, Three Days Grace, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Tom Waits, Trust Company, The Turtles, Velvet Revolver, Wolfmother, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zack Hjelmstad, Zero 7, 12 Stones.

(Can you tell I just went down the list in my iTunes? :) )

Books: Sooo many to list! I'll have to get back to this later. I'm always reading a book. I finished up "Voluntary Madness" and I'm starting now on "Genius and Heroin."

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled over the east coast of the USA, I've been to Arizona many times and visited Washington recently. I spent two weeks in the Czech Republic and a week in/around Florence, Italy.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a Theater major from Lincoln College and a Publishing/English major from Illinois State University. So anything with the literary arts or performing arts, I can help with! I know a little bit of French too. I really need to brush up on it, however.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Italy

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States