CURRENT MISSION

Just making sense of the world around me and doing my best to make it better

PHILOSOPHY

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. (John Lennon)

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed once and I've hosted a few times. I've met a number of other CouchSurfers along the way. Every time, I've had a terrific experience. I look forward to hosting again in the future.

兴趣

Politics!, education, music, art, philosophy, travel, food (eating/cooking), new cultures and people, being easily distracted...

• arts
• education
• dining
• cooking
• politics
• traveling
• music
• teaching

音乐、电影和书籍

Music: Everything from The Clash to Mahler.

Movies: The Royal Tenenbaums, Love and Death, Interiors, Igby Goes Down, Amelie, I Heart Huckabees, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (with Gene Wilder), Wristcutters: A Love Story, Donnie Darko (director's cut), The Godfather, Authur, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Being John Malkovich, I Am Sam, What's New, Tiger Lily?, Barry Lyndon, Blowup, The War Room

Books: most Gabriel Garcia-Marquez and Kurt Vonnegut, Das Parfum by Patrick Süskind. A great deal of non-fiction.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I used to work at the White House

教，学，和分享

Conversation is one of the best (and perhaps most enjoyable) ways to learn - about anything. I'm always up for learning more about a lot and sharing a lot about the little I know myself. I like talking politics.

我游览过的国家

Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

France, Germany, United States