katerena

Hello! Just a quick note that I'm living and working in between Berlin and Seattle. So I am signing up for some USA swaps and some International swaps. I'm careful to leave lots of clearance so ~~nothing you send will be lost~~!

I read/write/travel/take super long walks a lot. Professionally I'm a.... philosopher? I get paid to sit around and think, which is really lucky/lonely. To make up for the privilege of sitting around having a think all day, in my spare time I volunteer at shelter kitchens or food banks.

I get excited about: sea creatures and weird landscapes, anything/anywhere that looks improbable but is, in fact, real. I love to see others' drawings/paintings/comics/etc. I also like really really weird old postcards, or PCs that make no sense. I have a healthy sense of the absurd. I prefer sincerity over sarcasm. Please write to me about your daily routine, or what you do with your time and how you feel about it. Write to me about how it's like to live in the place where you live (as opposed how it might be like to be a tourist there), or how it's like to have your job. Write to me how to say a strange saying in a language I don't know, and what it means; or explain a really hard to translate joke. Tell me something surprising and awesome you learned recently, or something you did that you're proud of. Write to me the first inspiring or perfect moment that comes to mind.

Mostly I ride my bicycle and get lost. I know between 3 and 6 languages depends on how strict you are with the definition of "know." I've lived in either 4 or 7 countries depending on how strict you are with the definition of "live." I have definitely lived in countries whose language I did not speak at all, beyond "hello" "thank you" "how much is it" "I would love a coffee and a poppy-seed strudel, please!"

Here is me in a Disco Darth Vader last-minute bicycle-helmet-mod for Halloween: https://www.instagram.com/p/9eQ-A3ooK0/

This is not another blog post about life-hacking: https://medium.com/compassionate-productivity/the-gentle-calibration-of-the-qualified-self-59aa3c7d1900#.f47de9nmt

PLEASE NOTE: I'm actually kate but my name's not the one on the mailbox so please use the address exactly as I put it in, with that name.