ABOUT ME

Whenever I step onto a plane, I get the very real feeling that I'm going to die; despite this, I fly frequently. If we have similar tastes in books, we will probably get along. Slides terrify me. My dreams could all be made into coherent but bizarre movies. I’ve decided that one of the requirements for the next guy I date is kitten-owning so I can go over and play with it. I was born an American citizen in Okinawa, Japan (no, I don’t speak fluent Japanese). I love dashes, semi-colons, and parentheses. When someone hands me a paper to read, I compulsively edit it for grammar. I’m a timpanist. I’m always in the middle of at least one book.

Because I am lazy, I asked some friends to describe me:
-- "small, smart, sassy, sarcastic…undercover pimp"
-- "a misanthrope with almost 500 facebook friends"
-- "You're intimidating." "Why? I'm nice. Nice people aren't intimidating." "Sometimes they're so nice that they're intimidating...but that's not the case with you."
-- "You're lots of different people."
-- "I might say shrewd, or artful, or...hrm. I'm torn between intense and smart. Smart has lots of connotations that I think apply to you, but you're quite intense sometimes in all aspects."
-- "an argumentative intellectual who is deceptively vulnerable and open who will have a kitty named Rousseau"

PHILOSOPHY

I'm a virtue ethicist, and I like Aristotle's ideal of friendship.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now I'm just acclimating myself, but I'd love to eventually host people. Strangers are so interesting.

Interests

books, controversy, forums, grammar nazi-ing, humanism, music, Okinawan dance, pandora, poetry, politics, procrastination, reality, timpani, tiny showcase, virtue ethics, webcomics

• books
• poetry
• dancing
• ethics
• flying
• politics
• movies
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
About a Boy, Amelie, Barry Lyndon, A Beautiful Mind, Before Sunset, Big Fish, Brick, Charlotte Sometimes, The Cider House Rules, Closer, Crash, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gattaca, Grosse Pointe Blank, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Hero, Hotel Rwanda, I Heart Huckabees, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Love Actually, Magnolia, The Namesake, Pan's Labyrinth, Princess Mononoke, The Science of Sleep, Sin City, The Sound of Music, The Squid and the Whale, Star Wars (Episodes IV-VI), Thank You for Smoking, Wet Hot American Summer, What Dreams May Come, When Harry Met Sally, Vanilla Sky

Music:
Aimee Mann, AJ Croce, The Beatles, Ben Harper, Ben Kweller, Better Than Ezra, Damien Rice, Death Cab for Cutie, Elliott Smith, Head Automatica, Ho'onua, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Justin Kawika Young, Keali'i Reichel, Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Norah Jones, Pete Yorn, Placebo, The Postal Service, Rainer Maria, Rilo Kiley, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rupa, Save Ferris, Sol'Jibe, The Streets, The Sundays, The Supremes, Tahiti 80, The Temptations, Ten Feet, Terra Naomi, Vienna Teng, The Zombies

Books:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), Little Women (Aloctt), Pride and Prejudice (Austen), Martian Chronicles (Bradbury), The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Camus), Ender's Game (Card), The BFG (Dahl), You Shall Know Our Velocity! (Eggers), Magician (Feist), White Oleander (Fitch), Neverwhere (Gaiman), Good Omens (Gaiman &; Pratchett), Starship Troopers (Heinlein), Widow for One Year (Irving), The Cheese Monkeys (Kidd), The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver), The Namesake (Lahiri), Freakonomics (Levitt), The Life of Pi (Martel), The Time Traveler's Wife (Niffnegger), The Bell Jar (Plath), The Republic (Plato), The Fountainhead (Rand), The Little Prince (Saint-Exupéry), On Beauty (Z. Smith), White Teeth (Z. Smith), The Joy Luck Club (Tan), Night (Wiesel), Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers (Yamanaka)

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, Ireland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States