Hello hi! I grew up in Wisconsin and just recently moved back after a few years of exploring elsewhere. The idea of roots is a little scary for me and I hope to eventually be on the road doing renaissance faires full time. I currently work at a henna booth but am working on putting together my own performance act. I am a theatre school drop out with a passion for nature, reading, drawing little doodles, making music, and Indian food!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I joined couchsurfing awhile ago simply with the idea that I would like to travel more, both more affordably and also with the ability to meet and connect with locals. I hopped back on because I currently work at Bristol renaissance faire and may go on the road. There are a handful of shows that don't offer on site camping and I thought this may be a great alternative!

Interests

I love scifi, reading, hiking, collaborative art, making music, seeing live music and theatre, learning about nature (specifically fixated on invertebrates), and cooking and trying different styles of cuisine!

• diy
• concerts
• dancing
• gardening
• anime
• video games
• board games
• reading
• crochet
• live music
• hiking
• camping
• ecology
• entomology
• art
• theatre
• cosplay
• sci fi
• fantasy
• magic the gathering
• foraging
• birding
• dungeons and dragons
• dnd
• mtg

Music, Movies, and Books

Let me preface all of this by saying that I'm awful at narrowing down favorites and there's simply too many things that I love.

Music: Pears, Zach Quinn, Blind Melon, Front Bottoms, Folk Implosion, Sebadoh, Systems Officer, Pinback, Rob Crow, Mitski, AJJ, Pat the Bunny, Elliot Smith, Wombo, Meat Wave, Capdown, Leftover Crack, the Infested, No Bird Sing, Squid, Cleaners from Venus, Dehd, The Garden, Say Anything, Off With Their Heads, Bacchae, Something to Do, Catbite

Movies: A Knight's Tale, Mr. Nobody, Dark Crystal, Stardust, the Mummy, Big Fish

Books: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams, Reincarnation Blues - Michael Poore,
Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear - Rothfuss,
Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine - Bradbury,
Stardust - Neil Gaiman, American Gods - Gaiman, the Graveyard Book - Gaiman, the Sandman - Gaiman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of my favorite experiences recently was the Punk in Drublic festival in Austin, TX. I had the privilege of connecting personally with one of my all time favorite artists (Zach Quinn of Pears) at a small show in Milwaukee, my city of residence and not only was it incredibly meaningful for me to learn that he is an authentically kind human after all his music has meant to me, but he ended up emailing me some of his unreleased tracks (I don't have permission to share the files but I love playing the tracks for other Pears fans! Ask me about it!) and getting me back stage passes to the Punk in Drublic campout which I've dreamed about attending for years now. This also happened to be NOFX last tour ever after 40 years of making music, which felt really special.