CURRENT MISSION

Do everything that needs doing.

ABOUT ME

By day, I teach hordes of small Vietnamese people how to speak English more good, and spend my evenings pondering the finer cinematic qualities of Dolph Lundgren’s film catalogue.

I like reading books by Hemingway, Vonnegut, Thompson, Fitzgerald, Wilde, and Whitman, and watching films by Wes Anderson, Ridley Scott, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen, and The Coens. I have still not emotionally recovered from the cancellation of Firefly.

Potential career aspirations include: Dinosaur farmer, super-famous celebrity writer, 15th century explorer/cartographer, welfare queen, cyborg.

I am a hack of writer with absolutely no professional qualifications whatsoever. I did have a brief stint at a newspaper, but spent most of his time updating Facebook and Twitter, so it hardly counts.

I do, however, have a marked propensity for verbosity, and love it dearly when people read some of the things I write.

I have a blog where I talk about life and whatever else I'm thinking about at the moment. You can read it if you like. http://typusorbisterrarum.com

PHILOSOPHY

Play nice.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

However I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've kept a lot of people in the past. It took me a few years to get around to actually making a profile.

Interests

Films, books, comparative mythology, writing, music, languages, the internet, dinosaurs, futurism, philosophy, whiskey, food, people, and the oxford comma.

• writing
• books
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• guitar
• cartography
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Many of them.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

No one likes a travel-bragger.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm not sure what this section is for.

If you'd like, I can teach you how to cook a few things, how to strum a couple of chords on the guitar or ukulele, or how to order beer in Korean.

I love to learn anything that someone is willing to teach me.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Cambodia, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, United States, Viet Nam

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