CURRENT MISSION

Battling the Forces of Boredom

ABOUT ME

I like writing, and do a fair amount of it. I enjoy using semicolons, and employ them frequently in both my writing and speech. I wish I knew something about metalworking. I wish I could play the banjo. I can sing well enough, but I'm a terrible guitarist. I play the piano a little, but since my roommate with the Grand Piano moved out recently, my other roommate is snow spared any aural assault I might be tempted to subject her to. I don't like dangling participles; the above sentence is an example of the kind of sentence I hate.

Oh about this roommate: She doesn't know I'm signing up, and I suspect she wouldn't take kindly to strangers dropping by to crash on my couch, so if you drop in we're college buddies, okay?

Also, I can't figure out how to add a hard return to my profile. It's disturbing.

PHILOSOPHY

I got my personal motto from a fortune cookie:

"He who hurries cannot walk with dignity."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none

Interests

Tennis, Cooking--especially Indian cuisine, Boggle, Scrabble, Reading, Diving, Sailing, Hiking, Skiing, Cinema, Hiphop, Coaching Highschool Mock Trial Teams, Public Radio

• writing
• singing
• cooking
• movies
• reading
• metalworking
• piano
• hiking
• scuba diving
• sailing
• skiing
• tennis

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Air, Blackalicious, Black Star, Count Base D, Portishead, Radiohead, Jurrassic 5, Beck, Gershwin, Chris Cornell, Pharcyde, Halo Benders, Built to Spill, Al Green, etc.

Movies: Badlands, The African Queen, Secretary, Westerns, Anything directed by Wes Anderson, Lost in Translation, L'Aumberge Espanole, etc.

Books: House of Leaves, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Pride and Prejudice, A supposedly Fun thing I'll Never do Again, etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States