CURRENT MISSION

Im about to travel to Salvador and would like to find a couch, floor, or room to surf/rent along with my boyfriend. :)

ABOUT ME

Im spending the summer in Brazil studying capoiera with my mestre. I love to dance, swim, read, and write myself blind. According to Amazon.com, I am over-rated, over-priced, and most likely a large cause of cancer.

PHILOSOPHY

Dilige, et quod vis fac.

Love, and do what you will.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted a few couch surfers in the US, and am definitely open to hosting more once Im back.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Ive hosted but never surfed!

Interests

Capoeira, yoga, vulgar people, tending and watering, peonies, handstands, IDM, literature literature literature!, the taboo of the old life, the love song of alfred j. profrock, F# major, inscrutable things, ineffable experiences, taking morals like aspirin, those matters of consequence.

• literature
• dancing
• capoeira
• breakfast
• yoga
• traveling
• piano
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Rilke, TS Eliot, Carl Phillips, Nils Michals, Carolyn Forche, Jorie Graham, Tessa Rumsey, Jack Gilbert, Paul Guest, Joanna Klink, Brian Greene, fucking Faulkner, Michael Wood, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Mary Renault, Viorst, Aeschylus, Sartre, Borges, Auster, Camus

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have eaten all the plums that were in the icebox that you were probably saving for breakfast. They were delicious.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have taught both piano lessons and swim lessons for years.