CURRENT MISSION

to become more comfortable with uncertainty

ABOUT ME

To pay my way through school, I worked as a camp counselor, medical secretary, stage technician, designer, bookseller and fundraiser. (Not, of course, all at once.)

Now, in order to travel and to fund a second degree, I'm trying to write a romance novel. It's harder than it looks!

I play violin in a bluegrass band. It's a very new band, made of a bunch of women like me who didn't get it out of our system in highschool, and so far it's been entirely awesome.

I love my flat in Toronto (and my very tangly garden -- the tomatoes are a bit out of control), but I look forward to couchsurfing my way around the world.

Oh -- and as far as what I'm like as a guest -- I'm a non-smoker who drinks socially. I'm tidy (although I don't care if my host is), and self-sufficient.

PHILOSOPHY

Our limits are self-imposed.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've only just started!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first will be in Paris in three weeks! I can't wait!

Interests

Sustainable living, personal finance, bread-baking, gardening, children's literature, bookstores, bicycling (for pleasure, not for competition), Canada's beautiful northern landscape, bluegrass music.

• cats
• books
• literature
• design
• fashion
• baking
• modeling
• drinking
• gardening
• traveling
• music
• violin
• camping
• languages
• law
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

I love screwball 1940s comedies (the clothes! the parties! the dialogue!), and am also partial to bad B-movie sci-fi (Barbarella is genius). I'm a huge Buffy fan.

Because of my band, I'm mostly listening to bluegrass these days... although I also listen to hair metal in the hopes of figuring out if we can turn the tunes into bluegrass. ("Enter Sandman" hasn't worked well, so far.)

For my job, I read a lot of young adult fiction - and right now, the stuff coming from Australia and New Zealand kicks butt. My last favourite novel was Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones, but I read widely and eclectically. I also recently read "Wuthering Heights," which I somehow missed in school, and I was _shocked_. Shocked, I tell you! The characters in it are monsters! It's great!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Three years ago, I accidentally ended up being an underwear model... on a catwalk! Wearing nothing but cotton balls and pink ribbon!

I was volunteering as an usher for a benefit fashion show, and one of the models who was supposed to be strutting her stuff got into a car accident on the way over. I was her size, and I was trying this thing where I said yes to every opportunity.

It's hard to be scared of many social situations after you walk almost naked down a catwalk, to a crowd of cat-calling drunk women. :-) (and men. but mostly women.)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to make an infalliable loaf of bread.

I want to learn to speak more languages, starting with French, which I haven't really had a chance to practice since highschool.

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