CURRENT MISSION

Assume the best!

ABOUT ME

¡Quiero perderme un rato en España! I'm embarking on my first solo trip in Spain and Portugal for the month of October and looking forward to making new friends abroad and just going with the flow.

I’m really good at Taboo and Apples to Apples, dreaming, sexual innuendo, alliteration, and tapping various body parts along to music. I am also an adept scrambler of eggs and a voracious consumer of ketchup.

The six things I could never do without:
biking and swimming
music
reading and writing
sunshine
stimulating intercourse (both kinds)
language

PHILOSOPHY

I live to laugh and learn and love. I'm becoming more aware of my own emotional states. And working on assuming the best in people, decisions, and the future.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm traveling around Spain in October 2011, and hope to visit Portugal and perhaps Morocco. I'd like to host other couchsurfers when I have my own place.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Working on it!

Interests

laughing, learning, loving, biking, reading, sailing, traveling, spanish, computeres, reddit, board games, card games, swimming, making new friends, analogy, metaphor, language, teaching, dogs, water in general

• dogs
• writing
• board games
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• sailing
• swimming
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Ender's Game, Godel Escher Bach, Youth in Revolt, Life of Pi, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Dune, Harry Potter, Robert Heinlein, Carl Hiaasen, Michael Crichton, Richard Feynman, Dave Barry, Tim Dorsey, Carl Sagan, Kurt Vonnegut, Herman Hesse, Tom Wolfe, Shakespeare, Roald Dahl, Sideways Stories from Wayside School.

Music: Do Make Say Think, Built to Spill, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, Bela Fleck, Broken Social Scene, Sigur Ros, Rilo Kiley, Chili Peppers, Regina Spektor, Noah and the Whale, Stars, Frightened Rabbit, Modest Mouse, The National, Phoenix, Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, etc, etc, etc.

Movies: V for Vendetta, Fight Club, The Matrix, Gladiator, Old School, Office Space, Happy Gilmore, Lost in Translation, Adaptation, James Bond, Monty Python, The Lion King, Waking Life, Before Sunset/After Sunrise, Sin City, Superbad.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Studying abroad in Barcelona has gotta be near the top. And I just experienced the Grand Canyon this summer.

Teach, Learn, Share

cognitive science
yoyos
lucid dreaming
spanish

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