CURRENT MISSION under construction ABOUT ME I study comparative literature at the University of Texas. I've worked as a ghostwriter, led wilderness trips, taught spanish and english literature, studied in Jerusalem and Buenos Aires, recently walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Now I am settling down in Austin, learning french and Texas two-step. PHILOSOPHY To be marvellously yourself like the river water Gerald of wales says flows in arklow harbour Even at high tide when you'd expect salt water.
Interested in Books & Literature
Interested in Concerts
Fluent in English
Learning Hebrew (modern)
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I don't have a couch right now, but I am happy to show you around my city and I am ever-grateful to you for introducing me to yours. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE My first couchsurfing host in Vienna was wonderful and now I think it's the only way to travel. I love meeting couchsurfers in my hometown. And I am excited to get on the road again!
Music, Movies, and Books
I love: borges, kafka, nicole krauss, fellini, almodovar, bolano, andres segovia, mahler, bob dylan, the beatles, po' girl, and anything new.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
On the penobscot river in Maine, I saw a dragonfly nymph become a dragonfly.
Teach, Learn, Share
We were all hard at it in the boat Some of us up tightening sail, Some down at the heave and haul Of the rowing benches, deeply cargoed, Steady keeled, our passage silent, The helmsman buoyant at the helm; And I, who took it all for granted, Sang to the sailors. Then turbulent Sudden wind, a mealstrom: The helmsman and the sailors perished. Only I, Still singing, washed Ashore by the long sea-swell, sing on, A mystery to my poet self, And safe and sound beneath a rock shelf Have spread my wet clothes in the sun. - pushkin/ tr. heaney
My Interests
Theoretical discourse, live music, the open sea. boats. basses. tree identification. obscure talents. comic relief. awkward interaction. adventure. adrenaline. bicycles.
