CURRENT MISSION

Love, Life, Earth, Music, Art

ABOUT ME

Just moved back to Dublin after living back home in Chicago for a year. Glad to be back.

PHILOSOPHY

"If you work really hard and you're nice to people, amazing things will happen."
- Conan O'Brien

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love love love CS events and dinners. I have met some wonderful people through this website, and I want to continue to make the world smaller.

Interests

Some of my favorite things in no particular order:
Spontaneity, Music, Maple Trees, Hawks, Compassion, Sarcasm, Saying the word "crisp" but not necessarily eating them, Nag Champa (which I fondly call Champa Chomps), Drinking and having a great story to tell afterward, Drunken singing, Not littering, The smell of a campfire, The smell of my hair conditioner, The smell of home cooking, The smell of a farm ,Cheese, fruit, hummus, chocolate, wine, a good pint, laughing so hard that I don't make any noise whatsoever, writing letters, movies, music, acting, and my sister.
Drum circles, Tea, Live Music, Friends!, Conversation, Red Wine, Smiles, Vast areas of land, the Sky, Wind Chimes, Hugs, Photography, Colors, My Bed, Painting Walls, Buddha, the Cosmos, Shakespeare, Social Reform, Eyes, Brand New Experiences! and Soy Milk.

• arts
• writing
• singing
• photography
• acting
• cooking
• chocolate
• wine
• red wine
• cheese
• drinking
• movies
• painting
• music
• live music

Music, Movies, and Books

***Books - The Next Place, Anything Shakespeare, Why Zebras Don't get Ulcers, Five People You Meet in Heaven, Necessary Losses, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, all Harry Potters, the Sideways Stories from Wayside School series, and I really love reading plays: Angles in America, No Exit, WASP, Anything Beckett, anything comedic . . .

***Movies - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (best ever), All Lord of the Rings, Dancer in the Dark, Hair, Anchorman (fuck yes), Batman Begins was pretty good, Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Spaceballs, Run Lola Run, Tombstone, Amelie, Dark Crystal, Three Ninjas, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Surf Ninjas (sensing a theme?), O Brother Where Art Thou, A Mighty Wind, Kill Bill, Finding Neverland . . .

***Music - Portishead, Bjork, Boards of Canada, RJD2, DJ Shadow, Massive Attack, Tranquility Bass, Radiohead, Keane, Hooverphonic, Jurassic 5, Prefuse 73, Thievery Corporation, Floyd, Zeppelin, Doobie Brothers, Eagles, CCR, Moody Blues, Allison Krauss and Union Station, Modest Mouse, Mouse on mars, Hendrix, Monkees,Beatles, Michael Jackson, Neotropic, Jack Johnson,The Black Keys, The XX, Rufus Wainwright, The Postal Service, Skynyrd, The Doors, The Who, Bitter:Sweet, Flunk, I've also been listening to a lot of Blues lately. Really my musical tastes are open. I love learning new bands.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, United States