CURRENT MISSION

I am trying to find my place in this world

ABOUT ME

As of now, I am getting closer to 30 which is sort of a watershed between life of an adolescent and life of an adult. Hence I ask myself over and over again what have I achieved by now and what to do next. I am easily led into different adventures and have a thing for changing places. Now it's a bit of a problem, because after living for some year in the same place start feeling uncomfortable and wanting to move anywhere else. Sometimes this "anywhere else" is a different apartments. But more often it's a different state, city, country.

Just defining things - I haven't watched telly for more than 3 years, I find myself addicted to comuters and internet, I quit smoking cold turkey and haven't started again yet.

--- well after wards i have started smoking but I try to keep it to only when I drink

I think I am having quite big of inertia. Which understandable knowing my weight. But anywhoo, it's difficult for me to start something, but once I have started I don't stop until it's finished.

I like drinking as a process. Not even drinking per se, but whatever comes with it. Loosening up and relaxing. I don't like to be drunk though and hate hangovers even more.

I find it difficult to say "no" to people, so my "may be" or "probably" pretty much means "no". At the same time my yes is 200% yes and I am quite stubborn and persistent until get it done. That's how I got visa to Europe. I kept applying to different countries' consulates until I got one. And trust me, "applying" meant - preparing whole a lot of papers and driving to the consulate - 4 hours there and back.
In one of the WW2 movies one of the heroes says "russians don't surrender". so I am trying to keep up to it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

awesome and want more.

Interests

tango, linguistics, painting, history, conspiracy, puzzles, checkers, nerds and geeks, yoga, swimming, SCUBA, slasa dancing, Argentinian Tango, watercolour painting

• dancing
• tango
• cooking
• yoga
• drinking
• movies
• puzzles
• painting
• magic
• scuba diving
• swimming
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

READING:
all books by Sergei Dovlatov, all books I read by M.Twain, all books I read by P.G.Wodehouse, Three comrades by E.M. Remarque, A Time to Love and a Time to Die by E.M. Remarque, The Black Obelisk by E.M. Remarque, Tunnel in the Sky by R.A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land by R.A. Heinlein, A Clockwork Orange by A. Burgess, Plain Tales from the Hills by R.Kipling, The Wall by J.P Sartre, The Good Soldier Svejk by J.Hasek, by P.G.Wodehouse, 1984 by G. Orwell, The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, Rubayat O. Khayyam, The Crew by D. Brimson

List actually goes much further and includes a bunch of different authors' novels, non-fiction and poetry which is not available for English readers

MUSIC:
Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Oasis, t.A.T.U., Avril Lavigne, Panic! At the Disco, Fallout Boy, Timbaland, Beastie Boys, Goo Goo Dolls, Aphex Twin, Square Pusher, Underworld, Front Line Assembly, All American Rejects, Basement Jaxx, Deep Dish, Mogwai, Moby, My Chemical Romance, Tori Amos, Kasabian, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Reel Big Fish, Arctic Monkeys, The Stone Roses, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Count Basie

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have seen aurelis borealis and it's amazing. Even though it wasn't as colorful as it's on those pictures you might have seen in NG.

Teach, Learn, Share

dancing tango, salsa; doing yoga; russian swears; magic tricks; cooking; computer related stuff.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Italy, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States