38, born in West Germany, raised in Saint Louis, Missouri. BA in History from UMSL; partway through an MPPA, yet am considering UC Boulder for an MA in Theater Studies.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Recent transplant to Fort Collins, experiencing an unforeseen, temporary housing shortage. Gainfully employed at Happy Lucky's Teahouse in Old Town (236 Walnut St, Fort Collins, CO 80524) and seeking a short-term housing arrangement nearby.

Interests

Avid, inadequate autodidact of anthropology, astronomy, art, biology, botany, chemistry, ecology, geography/geology, history, -physics, mathematics, music, neuroscience, philosophy, theology, deontology, etc., and of playfully considering how they all bind together and inform one another.

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors: Achebe, Armstrong, Baldwin, de Beauvoir, Camus, Ellison, Ghibran, Goethe, Gibbon, Guanzhong, Heaney, Herbert(s), Homer, Hughes, Kaufmann, Kerouac, Kesey, Le Guin, Marlowe, Milton, Plato, Pratchett, Rumi, Shakespeare, Silverstein, Sophocles, Thucydides, Xenophon, Twain, Whitman

Directors: Anderson, Araki, Balabanov, Kurosawa, Fellini, Kubrick, Miyazaki, Pasolini, Satrapi, Soderbergh, Tarkovsky; just who came readily to mind (almost all men... please recommend women directors)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Won a little league baseball game by means of a grand slam

What I Can Share with Hosts

Tea, chorework, and conversation.