CURRENT MISSION

To experience that which I haven't.

ABOUT ME

It's been an adventure, and I really love a good adventure.

I study social work, so I'm tough but tender-hearted. I began the social work road after becoming a certified advocate with Refuge House, a local shelter, counseling, and resource center for persons and their children in imminent danger of domestic violence. I saw and heard many things I'd never known and it all became a pretty accurate compass.

I'm retraining to be a Tallahassee RollerGirl, welcome you to come to our bouts, and, as everyone has a derby team somewhere nearby, I suggest you get to know your local girls so you can start having the time of your life, too.

Also, I'm engaged to the most loving, intelligent, creative, sexiest person in the galaxy.

PHILOSOPHY

Be bold. Let love go both ways.

"Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes."
President Abraham Lincoln

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

True, my current couch availability status is a little on the "un" side, but this is hardly for lack of friendliness or openness. I live with my best friend, one of the sweetest people in the world though not entirely comfortable with the whole couch surfing deal, so I'm respecting her wishes and her perimeters of privacy while I'm with her.

Otherwise, I am looking forward to meeting some extraordinary people through CS! I would love to meet people coming to/through Tally & show them all things that make it a surprisingly wonderful place (Note: These things may be hard to spot w/o a decent guide :).

I believe in what CS is trying to help us curious ones accomplish. It's like a reinvention, on a globally massive scale, of 2 things:
~The way we perceive and treat one another (I seriously wonder whatever happened to good ole fashioned hospitality.)
~Learning as an actual experience ("I don't just want to believe the world is round, I want to see it for myself." Anne of Green Gables)

So yadda, yadda, yadda... let's meet :)

Interests

Singing my guts out, contemporary art that makes me go "Huh?", faces, stories, children, trail biking, roller derby, knowing things I didn't know, learning about things I "hate", the written and spoken word, touching, scrounging, tasting, def poetry, Opera, Unitarian Universalism, the pomaranian they call Copernicus, mobster & horror films, smelling things, Aventinus, La Fin du Monde, museums, color, knish, humanity on a whole

• arts
• poetry
• singing
• contemporary art
• coloring
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• partying
• movies
• socializing
• magic
• opera
• spoken word
• cycling
• surfing
• social work
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Reads:
The Dictionary, The Road, The Phantom Tollbooth, Caucasia, Snuff, Ulysses, Rant, Band of Sisters, Running with Scissors, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, The Name of the Rose, She Who Remembers, The Blue Sword, The Wisdom of Forgiveness: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, The Great Gatsby, The Birth of Venus, The Red Tent, Here There Be Dragons, The Chronicles of Narnia, A Wrinkle In Time, Ghostlight

Watches:
Godfather I & II, Goodfellas, Once Upon a Time in America, Casino, Heat, Miller's Crossing, What Dreams May Come, Amazing Grace, Quills, To Wong Foo..., Being There, Bogie films, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, True Romance, The Red Violin, Vicky Christina Barcelona, Willard, Feast, Perfume: Story of a Murderer, Into the Wild, Nanny Mcphee, Army of Darkness, Needful Things, Once, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Black Swan, Yes Man, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Feast, Dan in Real Life, The Fall

Listens:
Explosions in the Sky, Paul Dateh, Igor Stravinsky, Charles Spearin, Ramin Djawadi, Sarah Shannon, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Decemberists, The Mountain Goats, Fenja Menja, Monstah Black, Oren Lavie, Mari Boine, Neko Case, Lily Allen, Adele, A Fine Frenzy, David Gray, Timmy Curran, Iron & Wine, Jose Gonzalez, Paolo Nutini, reggaeton, Brett Dennen, Mikhail Glinka, Jamiroqouai, Vladimir Rebikov, Burning Spear, Nigel Kennedy, Alan Menken, Wolfmother, Hot Pink Delorean, Paul Haslinger, Designer Drugs, Craig armstrong, Band Of Horses, Erykah Badu, Milla Jovovich, Josefine Cronholm, Alexis & Fido, Wisin y Yandel, Wycleff Jean, Pumice, Louis Jordan, Crooked Still, Sharon Stone & The Dap Kings, Jem, Garth Brooks, Bon Jovi, Loreena Mckennit, George Thorogood, Cycle Sluts from Hell, Ella Fitzgerald, Matisyahu

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The first time 3 skaters & their 24 wheels went crashing into my helmet. I survived & felt extraordinary.

Seeing my brother after his first tour in Afghanistan.

A dude machete the top off of my Hopsecutioner.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am irredeemably in love with food, eating it, and sharing it.
Swapping recipes would be lovely.
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

If I stay in your home I will probably beg to make & share at least one glorious meal together. Not because I'm a particularly good cook (I'm okay), but in my experience a home-cooked meal over a bottle or two of something and great conversation works a kind of magic that can make anywhere & anyone feel like home & family. You're just meeting for the first time, is all.

If you're not up for an "in" kind of meal, I'll take you out. I'm sure we'll love it all the same.

I love listening to and sharing stories. Everyone has at least one they love to tell.

I want to learn how to rock climb!!! My upper-body strength is fair (probably pretty decent as females go) and I'm always gaining lower-body muscle & agility with roller derby. If you're into this & want a willing pupil, I'm yours.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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