CURRENT MISSION

yes

ABOUT ME

I'm getting a degree in environmental economics, trying to learn as much as I can about renewable energy and climate change policy, spending time with my friends, exploring hiking trails around California.

I'm curious, enthusiastic. I laugh easily. I'm pretty good at feeding my friends, appreciating the silly, admitting when I don't know, developing simulation models.

In my past lives I worked at a research institute in Austria and did international development work in Bolivia.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none yet!

Interests

• hiking
• economics

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: anything by Michael Chabon, Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf, L'élégance du hérisson, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Cryptonomicon, anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, short stories by Alice Munro. I read the New Yorker most weeks, scan the Economist when I can too.

Movies: La gloire de mon père, Shakespeare in Love, Wonder Boys, Grosse Point Blank, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Persepolis, Life of Brian, Princess Bride, Best of Youth, Shawshank Redemption, The Third Man, Say Anything, Edward Scissorhands, Secretary, Notting Hill, Some Like It Hot, Heathers, A Fish Called Wanda, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dr. Strangelove, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Color Purple, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Il y a longtemps que je t'aime

Food: butter, half-ripened goat cheese, fruit in season, warm bread, grilled lamb chops, steamy hot bowls of coffee with milk, sushi, curry powder blue crab

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