CURRENT MISSION

Colonizing Titan; Learning basic Algebra first

ABOUT ME

Update! All my photos except for my main photo are now wildly out of date, cause I haven't been on here in an ICE AGE. I mean, who cares, but also, don't show up looking for a 19-year-old with a chili bowl.

Hi! I'm Melanie, and I live in Memphis! I went to college here, and I now I go to bars here. I work in IT, I have a spectacular roommate, and I'm getting the hang of cleaning out my fridge on a weekly basis. It shocks the soul.

I read everything. Shampoo bottle labels, everything. Novels with spaghetti dried to the cover, you get it. I bike, I run, I cook, I mix stiff drinks!

PHILOSOPHY

Participate!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf on couches, I sing in showers :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I use Couchsurfing.com mainly to lure french people into my home and force them to correct my grammar.

As for travelling experiences, I wanna tell those in person!

Interests

authors, healthy eating, supergluing things to my nails, gumshoe novels, film noir, cartoons, having a drink, spore, star trek, who writes Netflix blurbs?, sushi with cream cheese inside, sansa stark, genly ai, taking Echinacea, reading sort-of-famous people's Wikipedia entries.

• singing
• cooking
• cheese
• cocktails
• running
• drinking
• cartoons
• reading
• traveling
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
labi siffre, wiley, dizzee rascal, farid, kia shine, mark de clive-lowe, cansei de ser sexy, madonna, m.i.a.

Movies:
the lives of others, helvetica, le dernier metro, the last unicorn, the third man, blow up, bob le flambeur, fanny and alexander, festen, goodbye lenin, hero (jet li),resevoir dogs, life aquatic, kill bill v.1&2, akira, rushmore, galaxy quest, dr. strangelove, the testament, pulp fiction, run lola run, the devil's backbone, alien, talk to her, the thin blue line, election

Books:
closely observed trains (hrabal), i served the king of england, nausea, the lathe of heaven, someone like you (Dahl!), pensees, the doors of perception (huxley!), the brothers karamazov, leaves of grass, heart of darkness, a wrinkle in time, narrow road to the interior, scoop (waugh!), bhagavad gita, diary of a seducer, the left hand of darkness, rendezvous with rama, harry potter, lord of the rings, game of thrones

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I SAW FLIGHT OF THE CONCORDS LIVE!! < this is from ages ago, but I'm leaving it because everytime I see brett as the elf in Lord of the Rings, I smile now.

Teach, Learn, Share

You don't have to cut the ends of asparagus, the snap off easily at the right spot (hey, I didn't know).

What's your favorite cocktail?

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, South Korea, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Italy, United States

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