About
Well, hello there! Didn’t see you sneak up on my like that.Let’s see here… Basic stuff: I’m 25 years old. I’m a Christian in the Orthodox Church and some day I hope to represent well with my life the faith I profess. I’m 100% Polish (dual citizen; my parents came over on a boat). I work as an admissions counselor at my alma mater, Wheaton College, where I studied Communication (Media Studies/Film). I’m interested in things like:
- community
- living well and simply (I’d love to learn how to grow enough food to feed the family I hope to have some day and the families I hope to be in community with)
- good food (I’m learning how to really cook) and drink (esp. beer–real beer, craft ales and such–and the possibility of homebrewing)
- aesthetics and politics (what can I say? Socialism intrigues me.)
- good music and literature
- travel, language, and culture
- brokenness & redemption (Redeemed Lives changed my life)
I suppose there’s more that I can put here, but here’s some more stuff about me as listed in my Facebook profile:Activities:
- youth ministry
- regular visits to Three Floyds
- PHP/MySQL geekery
- adding items to my list of why Slavic people are just so dang awesome
Interests:
- Chicago White Sox
- “esoteriology” (a college buddy [who's humor is as random as mine, if not moreso] and I decided to become esoteriologists)
- craft English ales (I rarely meet an IPA I don’t like)
- many things English (what can I say? This Polak is an anglophile)
- homebrewing
- bleu cheese (surprisingly enough; who saw that one coming?)
- the West Coast
- community and simple living
- good food, good drink, good company
Favorite Music
- Arvo Pärt
- RadioParadise.com
- Radiohead
- U2
- Hem
- Over the Rhine
- AIR
- Alison Krauss
- Arcade Fire
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Herbert Howells
- Anglican Church music
- Ben Harper
- Hooverphonic
- Imogen Heap
- Jeff Buckley
- Low
- Massive Attack
- Neko Case
- Sigur Rós
- Sleeping At Last
- Stars
- Sufjan Stevens
- Loreena McKennitt
- Tom McRae
- West Indian Girl
- Autamata
- Depeche Mode
- The Durutti Column
- Gomez
- Gotan Project
- Guster
- Keane
- My Morning Jacket
- Pat Metheny
- Trespassers William
- Porcupine Tree
- Ray LaMontagne
- Emily Haines
- Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
- Cold War Kids
- Bonobo
- Gotye
- I Monster
Favorite TV Shows
- Top Chef
- Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
- House
- American Idol
- The Office
- The Soup
Favorite Movies
- Robert Bresson’s films
- Christopher Guest’s films
- 28 Days Later by Danny Boyle
- the Dekalog and the Trzy Kolory Trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Favorite Books
- The Geography Of Nowhere: The Rise And Decline Of America’s Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
- For The Life Of The World by Alexander Schmemann
- Setting Love In Order by Mario Bergner
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Beginning To Pray by Metropolitan Anthony Bloom
- Round trip by Ann Jonas,
- Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis
- Orthodox Christianity and the English tradition by Fr. Andrew Phillips
- The Orthodox Way by Bp. Kallistos Ware
- Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine