Last night I dreamt more than I have for years- it was the first long & interrupted sleep in weeks & felt incredibly good. The dream themes covered so many things- indoor colorguard, Classicsy things, Centro & Dickinson friends, Greece, ancient Latium, Etruscans, omg. Um, they were amusing for sure. o_0 It was good though. I think the Centro has ( Read more... )

Firenze (Florence) was awesome. Pictures on facebook. Yay that was a good, good time this weekend. My camera was dead for all of Saturday during most of our sightseeing but the other pictures are on there. Uffizi was quite amazing. And the Duomo. And the piazze. And churches. And Ponte Vecchio. And my friends here. The hostel not so much ( Read more... )

At the site of the Tarquinia tombs ( Read more... )

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Roman weather is so weird. Today (i.e. Wed, even though it is technically early Thursday morning) it was sunny, cold, blustery, misty, drizzly, flashflood-y, rainbow-y, hailing. We did a 8 1/2 hr walking tour of the Roman obolisks- cold, soaking... but fun. The several servings of coffee and servings of gelato made lightened the labor. :P Was ( Read more... )

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Loving the Centro. The students and professors here are great. Roma vivit.

1.) Last night- no lie- in my dream I was working in a deli. Now that is too good for me to have made up.

2.) My fortune cookie at dinner tonight read, "You will travel far and wide, both pleasure and business." Kinda funny cus in 24 hours I'll be over the Atlantic on the way to Italy.

$#@!ing work. Really don't wanna go. Again for the 5th time in a week. It might be my last day there if I am accepted to one of the summer programs for which I applied. I'm praying I get into one of them. Agh another summer nauseated by juicy, bloody, sticky, heavy, mutated carcasses. I gag every day there from that pig juice constantly ( Read more... )

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