CURRENT MISSION

To cross the pond (for the first time ever)

ABOUT ME

Hello!

I'm currently completing an undergrad degree in philosophy at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. I'm enjoying small town Canada, and I've enjoyed large-town Canada, but I'm looking forward to seeing other parts of the world.

When I'm not studying, I help edit a school paper, enjoy the occasional round of swing dancing and am pretty good in the kitchen. I drink too much coffee, have a parrot that I absolutely adore and want to live in the Ivory Tower of academia for as long as I can.

PHILOSOPHY

I attempt to defer to Kant on most things. Sometimes that fails.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet, but I've heard great things about it and I can't think of a better way to travel Europe.

Interests

Cooking, parrots, philosophy of language, metaphysics, long and pointless walks, coffee shops, workahol

• dancing
• swing dancing
• dining
• cooking
• indian food
• coffee
• drinking
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:

Annie Hall, Science of Sleep, Manhattan, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Matrix, Amelie

Music:

Incredibly diverse. Lately: Andrew Bird, Fiona Apple, M.I.A. and Bartok

Books:

Currently reading: Strawson's Individuals, Sartre's Intimacy, Borradori's American Philosophers, Farber's Foundations of Phenomenology, Hegel's Reason in History

All time favourites: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Goodman's Fact, Fiction and Forecast, Zola's Germinal, Reich's Listen Little Man, Skinner's Walden Two, Camus The Stranger, Salinger's Franny and Zooey

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once drove through death valley with food poisoning.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to cook pretty good Indian food.

I can explain many different problems with Locke's notion of personal identity over time.

I would love to learn how to speak a few words of German, salsa dance or learn to cook new food.