CURRENT MISSION

Mastering the art of fiction (haha)

ABOUT ME

"I write out of a greed for lives and language. A need to listen to the orchestra of living" --Barry Hannah

Currently finishing a Master's of FIne Arts degree in fiction writing because I love language. I would eat words if I didn't have to spit them out.

Otherwise, I'm a junkie for movies, books, comic books, good chocolate, baked bread, coffee, traveling, relaxing, and all the other usual suspects...

PHILOSOPHY

"The day is short, the labor vast, the workers lazy, the reward great, the Master urgent"

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves" --Carl Jung

"Interpret rest not as doing nothing but as doing something but something that is different" --Virginia Woolf

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couchsurfed in Germany last year (amazing!). Life has finally slowed enough for me to start hosting surfers of my own!

I'm eager to partake in rich experiences with people from other cultures and those similarly excited to revel in laughter, understanding, and fellowship in a world vastly indifferent to all of the above.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My time couchsurfing in Europe was incredible. A gift I never have to return. I want to give others the same amazing experience my hosts gave to me.

Some of my best friends and closest relationships in the past have come from offering my couch and enjoying the same experience with strangers—it helped work in ways no other social lubricant can! You get to know so much about someone else by sharing spaces, which is something I'm stoked to do via CouchSurfing.

Interests

I divide my time between tennis and racquetball and am thus mediocre in both.

The same applies to my German and Turkish studies, unfortunately...

I have an age old love for comic books (graphic novels, if you prefer).

Conversation is among my favorite activities—I could chat for hours if the person I'm chatting with is up for the task, or until the conversation loses steam. Talking is great!

• arts
• humanities
• writing
• books
• acting
• chocolate
• coffee
• movies
• traveling
• tennis
• racquetball

Music, Movies, and Books

Movie loves: Tarantino, entire; anything Buster Keaton (excepting, maybe, Beckett's "Film"); Woody Allen; Christopher Nolan; Wong Kar Wai; film noir; just about anything from the Criterion Collection.

Music loves: any band w/Jack White; Bob Dylan; The Beatles; the Rolling Stones; Radiohead; Smashing Pumpkins; The Smiths; David Bowie; lately into hip-hop (mostly underground, though I love Jay-Z, Kanye, Lil Wayne, and a good number of the Top 40 crew, too...).

Author loves: Samuel Beckett; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf; Salman Rushdie; Brian Evenson; Flann O'Brien; William H. Gass; Robert Coover; Thomas Pynchon; William T. Vollman; Roberto Bolano; Georges Simenon; George Saunders (!); Amee Bender; James Salter; Don Delilo; Alan Watts; C.G. Jung; Barry Hannah

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bryce canyon in Utah may be the greatest natural spectacle of all time—I see it in person as often as I'm able.

Teach, Learn, Share

Lessons on the unreliable narrator in online profile construction.

I do teach English with some success.

Can anyone help me continue to learn German? I'm serious. (Können Sie mich Deutsche helfen learnen?)

(Or Turkish, for that matter?)

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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