I currently live in Ridgewood, in a remote bottom corner of Queens. New York is my latest attempt to make living in one place a viable long-term plan.
I just spent six months and all my savings backpacking from Beijing to Hamburg through Central Asia, the Caucus, Turkey and Eastern Europe. I had no idea so many people were going to want to hear about Kazakhstan when I was done.
In 2005 and 2006 I worked for a chain of English schools in Big China.
I'm a Capricorn and was born in the year of the Monkey.
I graduated from a small liberal arts school in 2003 with a degree in cognitive science. In some parallel universe I do research in robotics.
For a while I worked in Charan Ranganath's lab at UC Davis.
Yes, I'm an American.
I'm vegetarian, too.
I went to Bell Elementary School in Marblehead, MA for six years, and Marblehead Middle School for a couple of years after that.
I've also been a student at Nayland College in Nelson, New Zealand and Tate High school in Hachioji, outside of Tokyo.
When I was a kid we lived for a while on a sailboat.
I have a very well-traveled teddy bear.