CURRENT MISSION

Get a new job with more vacation time!

ABOUT ME

I love to laugh. I'm very good at striking up a casual conversation but not very good at really getting to know people. I grew up in the same town where my parents grew up, where my sister just bought our grandmother's house. I love learning things and I'm quite skeptical, so check your facts before you tell me something amazing ;)

PHILOSOPHY

Do what you love whenever you can; figure out a way to get back to doing what you love when you can't.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted and been hosted by many friends and relatives but I have not yet met anyone through CS -- hoping to do so soon! I remember what a good time we had keeping an "open couch" in my first apartment after university.

Interests

I read a lot, mostly fiction and popular science/history; I get really excited about science and explaining science to others; I like to hear lots of different viewpoints on topics of importance but I usually think some of them are totally, unequivocally wrong; I walk everywhere; I love to people-watch; I'm interested in voluntary simplicity but I do have a bit of a consumerist streak. I like semicolons. I work at a museum, which means I get in free to basically all the museums in Boston, and I try to go as often as I can. As a Bostonian, I am required by law to be interested in baseball; somehow I have learned a non-trivial amount of info about the Red Sox without ever meaning to. I sing Alto I in a chorus.

• singing
• concerts
• baseball
• history
• law
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

It's hard for me to figure out what the common thread is in the movies I like -- the last couple of years were great for movies and I enjoyed There Will Be Blood, Children of Men, Simon Pegg's movies. I also love 80s action blockbusters like Die Hard and Indiana Jones, and really old classics like Casablanca and It Happened One Night. And Hitchcock.

Music -- Gillian Welch, Sufjan Stevens, Tom Petty, the occasional pop country hit. And classical music, including a fair amount of 20th-century stuff, Steve Reich and Britten some Philip Glass.

Books -- kids fantasy, grown-up versions of kids fantasy like Susanna Clarke and Neil Gaiman, Jane Austen, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, cheesy mysteries and the occasional romance novel.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I flipped a car end over end and walked away fine -- went to a concert the next day! Hey, it's not a good thing (especially for the car), but it is amazing.

I'm always looking for more amazing experiences.

Countries I’ve Visited

Greece, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States