CURRENT MISSION

To make travelling more about people and less about sweaty outings to statues of dead white men.

ABOUT ME

I'm a thoughtful, goofy person that loves conversation and old friends. My career is as an online activist for progressive causes, especially environmental stuff. I'm originally from Northwest Washington DC, and I think it shows in my attitudes-I'm open-minded and interested in world affairs and I really like interesting food, especially Asian food.

PHILOSOPHY

Like I said above, I tend to be thoughtful and planful, but I also care deeply about fun and joy. I care about fairness, but I try to avoid being nitpicky. I am a vegetarian, but not particularly a pacifist. One thing that tends to show through is my love of technology combined with my irreverence for it. I enjoy tinkering with almost any kind of gadget, but I don't think that people should invest lots of time and money inventing them if they aren't really helpful to the world (i.e. sports cars).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Two friends and I stayed with CSers on our cross country road trip in the summer of 2010 and I've hosted people at my house in Worcester, MA. I think it's great.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed around the West Coast of the USA on a road trip and hosted a couple awesome people here in Worcester.

Interests

Robotics (engineering and technology in general), climate change and activism, food (especially Asian), psychology, evolution, politics, comedy (especially the depressing kind), video games, airplanes.

• causes
• dining
• vegetarian
• politics
• technology
• video games
• traveling
• cars
• engineering
• psychology
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Comedy: Margaret Cho, Maria Bamford, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim and other wacky, absurd or anxious people.

Movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Royal Tenenbaums and all other Wes Anderson works, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Platoon, The Hurt Locker, Airplane, Children of Men, many others.

Music: Folk music (especially Sea Shanties, which I enjoy singing with my friends), Bruce Springsteen, Indian pop music I can't understand.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Ridden on an elephant in Thailand.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Mexico, Thailand, United States

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