CURRENT MISSION

find a home!

ABOUT ME

i love to cook and dance and laugh...

i'm mostly a calm person, my best friend described me as straightforward and mild-mannered, which i found nicely fitting. but i still like to stay up late, run laps around the neighborhood in the heart of winter, eat indiscerable food items from asian food markets (or anywhere), dance to noise while banging pots and pans, and bike drunkenly on midnight icy paths, insisting that i'll be awake when the sun comes up.

PHILOSOPHY

i'm working on the fermentation model. that is, i'd like to work towards facilitating life wherever it might want to grow; in a jar of cabbage for instance. this also includes composting. it's difficult to articulate this model further, but i'm working on it. couchsurfing accomplishes this-it only takes a bit of rearranging to make friendship and connection spontaneously fluorish and grow-

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i'd hosted hundreds of random people at the student co-ops in eugene prior to hearing of the CS project. once i moved out and began living on my own, CS provided a way to continue doing so. and, of course, i want to surf!

at the moment, i can't host people, but still go to meetings and promote CS to those who haven't yet heard!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

like i say, i've hosted wanderers and travelers for years.

i've spent the past year living abroad and traveling, couchsurfing along the way. i've been to meetings big and small, made some dear friends, but i realize now that i've never surfed alone! have i?

Interests

yogurt, nietzsche, fellini, sauerkraut!, music that makes you spasm, kombucha, indymedia, biking really really fast on my sketchy creaky old 70s roadbike with huge cracks in the tires and iffy brakes, reading about what the killer robots are up to, staying up this late and forgetting how to have coherent thoughts, screen printing, drawing while listening to wagner, going on health fasts and breaking them with candy and other non-food items, the coffee-cigarette-book trifecta, gardening, thinking of lists, obsessing over deadlines and schedules, playing magic the gathering, studying french and other languages, painting, roasting coffee, knitting, drinking too much apple cider vinegar, making perfect plans and rolling along when they never work out...

• books
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• running
• working out
• modeling
• drinking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• painting
• drawing
• magic
• music
• cycling
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

lately, i wake up with chopin, ease into black metal while delving into spinoza. lunch with the radio, and dine with bright eyes or jens lekman before settling into Dune or whichever Kurt Wallander novel i'm working through. I don't watch movies so often these days, though i would like to fit them in more often. I like Godard, Welles - movies that play with the medium a little. on the other hand, i've given into romance comedies and love stories - it took 25 years to realize that i'm a bit sappy on the inside...

clarice lispector is one of my favorite novelists.

alfred hitchcock movies are amazingly good-the old ones might be lo-fi, but he's an artist so it doesn't matter.

star trek TNG rocks my socks. this series has been widely overlooked.

i'm constantly on some philosophy project or another, usually studying what various thinkers have said about domestication, civilization, and oppression. today, nietzsche, foucault, deleuze, badiou, the lists grow.

i also feel it's important to read history and anthropology. i'm just plunging into these fields myself and am eager for more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

taking the train west, homeward, after having been away for a year. seeing the rockies and the cascades again brought tears to my eyes.

klimpt's "the kiss" in vienna: it made me realize that the cliché word 'breathtaking' is actually descriptive and not purely symbolic

i'm amazed when i learn something new. making a giant icosahedron, roasting coffee, a word or a grammar rule in another language (or my own, in fact) it's simple, but a source of great joy in my life.

Teach, Learn, Share

i can:

-screen print
-make wonderful sauerkraut, yogurt, kombucha, pickles, (pickled anything, really), beer, ginger beer, honey wine, and other fermented healthy yummies
-speak/read french (and some german, but it's a bit rusty)
-knit basic things
-roast coffee!
-identify a few plants/families

i'd like to learn more about
-gardening
-plant identification
-wildcrafting/gathering
-bikes
-spanish
-knit complicated things (fingerless gloves with a mitten-flap, anyone?)

and i'm always up to exchange language practice in french or german, however different our levels might be...

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, France, United States

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