CURRENT MISSION

to reach the speed of light

ABOUT ME

I'm the eldest of four kids and have three younger brothers. While my dad was getting his P.h.D., I grew up all over the US devouring my parents' art history books, going to the ballet, living in the library, playing outside from the moment I got off the school bus, and having an extreme desire to learn how to fly. In a household that forgot to purchase cable television and videogame consoles, we had to think of other things to do. I've always had a strange desire to, well, go--which may have been why I ran cross country in highschool. At any rate, from as early as I can remember I have found the world to be worthy of and begging for exploration.

Somewhere between wanting to fly and settling for a job, I have come into my final semester studying English Literature at Winthrop University. After returning from a little time in Dublin, I'm not entirely sure what I want to do but I am still restless for the world.

PHILOSOPHY

"The only way to be perfect is to allow chaos and madness into your life" -Darren Aronofsky

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I met a few people while I was in Ireland through the project. I was out of couch surfing for some time but I hope to become more involved as soon as I finish with school.

Interests

strangers, a good book, the quest for the perfect shade of red nail polish, writing stories, painting, a glass of wine at the end of the day, disappearing, running, entropy, art museums, dreaming of flying airplanes, post-modern literature, being lost, old photographs, cheese and crackers, dancing ballet down the hall, the smell of chloe eau de parfum, abandoned houses, midnight conversations that last until the morning, gerhard richter, coffee cups that take two hands to hold, wormholes, telling stories, chaos, dior lipstick, the incorrect average color of the universe, chocolate chip cookies, new sketch books, john cage, staying up late, stars that make you dizzy, standing in front of a monet painting, new issues of Vogue, making up songs about ordinary things, einstein, rainy mornings that last through the afternoon, sleeping outside, Invisible Children, watching people, baking desserts, The Economist, saltless popcorn and hot chocolate, the smell of new ballet shoes, singing in the shower, quantum physics, sitting in stairways, endless tall-grassy fields, dinosaur fossils, and asking questions.

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• singing
• coloring
• dancing
• ballet dancing
• chocolate
• wine
• cheese
• coffee
• desserts
• baking
• running
• flying
• painting
• surfing
• art history
• economics
• history
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
If it has pages with words, I'll read it.
Anything by T.S. Eliot
Mostly anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Odyssey, Homer
Anything by Gandhi
The Accidental by Ali Smith
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner
The Dubliners, Joyce
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
Walking with the Wind, John Lewis

Music: everything. Feist, Led Zeppelin, Ryan Adams, Coldplay, Mumford and Sons, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Interpol, Ray LaMontagne, Will Hogue, Slightly Stoopid, The Smiths, Counting Crows, Hootie and the Blowfish, John Mayer (sometimes), Damien Rice, Sister Hazel, Radiohead, Citizen Cope, Imogen Heap, Ingrid Michaelson, Beirut, Andrew Bird, Yelle, Iron & Wine, Kings of Convenience, Bjork, Nickel Creek, Regina Spektor, Kings of Leon, The Rolling Stones, Phoenix, Ben Folds, Ben Harper, The Knife, MGMT, Tchaikovsky, Adele, Guster, 311, The Shins, Ben Kweller, Vampire Weekend, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Duke Ellington, She & Him, Wilco, Pete Yorn, Kate Nash, Amos Lee, Phish, Widespread Panic, ...ehh. and even, Miranda Lambert. I'm sure there's more.

Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, Inception, March of the Penguins, The Red Balloon, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...can't think of it all.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Over 1,000 people on the mall lawn of Capitol Hill lobbying to end the longest running war in Africa. To be a part of an international endeavor that is beyond myself and even my native borders is the most humbling and amazing thing that I have ever witnessed.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm all up for learning at this point--not much to offer to teach.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, United States