CURRENT MISSION

Pretend to be the person I want to be until I become her.

ABOUT ME

As a quick, adjectivey summary, I'd say: creative, smart, quiet, liberal, feminist, spiritual, geeky lady-type person.

I sing (not very well) in the shower, I dance at parties even if I'm the only one, I take books out on dates just the two of us. I write stories about spaceships or magic or sometimes magical spaceships. I am excited to eventually be somebody's eccentric aunt with blue hair and tales of travel in foreign parts that are probably not entirely factually accurate. I'm pretty good at thumb-wrestling.

PHILOSOPHY

Everyone is worthwhile. Be kind. Connect. Don't be afraid.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now I'm in the process of uprooting my whole life and turning it into something else. This involves a lot of travel and not actually having a place of my own for a while, so I can only surf at the moment. I look forward to being able to host one day, though.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

No experience yet. I've heard stories from friends who highly recommend it, though.

Interests

All caps for emphasis ART. If I could, I would spend all my time making pretty things, or having adventures in search of inspiration. I write, dance, draw, take pictures, make collages, and design clothes. However, since I am prone to procrastination and fits of hermitry, I also spend a lot of time watching TV online and playing video games. I love to read, especially sci-fi/fantasy novels and comic books.

• arts
• books
• singing
• design
• dancing
• partying
• drinking
• clothing
• video games
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• drawing
• magic
• blues
• wrestling

Music, Movies, and Books

TV shows: Firefly, Rome, Xena: Warrior Princess, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, anything Anthony Bourdain does, Star Trek: DS9, Doctor Who, Community, Avatar (both series), Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Lost Girl, Orange is the New Black.

Books: The Princess Bride, Silverlock, One For The Morning Glory, Cat's Cradle, Good Omens, The Last Unicorn, The Name Of The Wind, The Lies of Locke Lamora, the Kushiel books, the Vlad Taltos novels, the Song Of Ice And Fire series.

Classics: Don Quixote, Lolita, To the Lighthouse, The Brothers Karamazov, One Hundred Years of Solitude, anything Shakespeare but especially the comedies, nearly anything by the Romantic or Modernist poets.

Comic books: Strangers in Paradise, Sandman, Fables, Watchmen, Blankets, some incarnations of the X-men.

Movies: Serenity, Mirrormask, Boondock Saints, The Prestige, V for Vendetta, The Fifth Element, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Whip It, Amelie, Pirates of the Caribbean, Midnight in Paris, The Hunger Games, Cloud Atlas.

Music: Florence + The Machine, The Decemberists, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Imogen Heap, Eisley, The Black Keys, Janelle Monáe, The Mountain Goats, Amanda Palmer.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Reading The Aeneid in a park on top of Gianicolo Hill in Rome.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to blues dance, and I know a truly absurd number of sea shanteys and drinking songs. As for learning, I'm always interested in practicing the local language if it isn't English.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Cayman Islands, France, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States