CURRENT MISSION

writing a novel

ABOUT ME

I'm open-minded with a wry sense of humor. Good listener. INTP/J. Generally enthusiastic and eager to accumulate life experience.

PHILOSOPHY

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."

--David Foster Wallace, This is Water

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'e hosted, surfed/rideshared, and attended meet-ups.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Japan Couchsurfing is best Couchsurfing.

Interests

Reading, writing, hiking, illustration, Eastern & continental philosophy, Buddhism, Japanese culture, basketball

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS: Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Haruki Murakami, JD Salinger, Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, DFW, Bret Easton Ellis, Milan Kundera

MUSIC: Built to Spill, Two Gallants, Soltero, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes & Conor Oberst, Immortal Technique, Tallest Man on Earth

MOVIES: David Lynch, Jean luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Fransisco Fellini, Lars von Trier, Akira Kurosawa.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

5 day hike at Olympic
White Water rafting on the Nile

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm tragically impractical so don't count on survival skills

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Japan, Uganda, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia