Once again I am going to Italy. I'll be leaving Monday and as always I will try to post the entertaining details. I'll be posting them on my blog, so check out the pics and the stories at http://filonemonk.blogspot.com/.

Oh yeah, Blogger is so much better than Livejournal.

Gonna shake it up a little bit...I'm moving.

The Monk's Abbey: http://filonemonk.blogspot.com

Something kind of cool just happened...I went to the market to pick up some biscotti (appropriately enough) and these three Italians came up to me and asked me some questions in Italian (including, of course, "do you speak Italian?"). They were asking where the gloves were to handle the produce and thought it was strange that there were none (if ( Read more... )

You know that feeling you get when you’re sitting on an airplane and watching all the other passengers get on, just waiting for that fat, ugly, or smelly person to sit next to you. There’s very few times more frightening in the life of a human being. Then there’s that one in a million chance that you get someone fun, interesting, and maybe ( Read more... )

In the middle of finals, I got a crying phone call from my mom. My grandma died. She was an amazing woman and played a huge part in raising me, my brother, and all of my cousins. She lived in Brooklyn and moved to New Jersey to be closer to my uncle when he had his kids. She was a huge influence and helped raise my cousins, and when my parents ( Read more... )

If I were to tell you everything that has happened since the last time I posted, both you and I would be sitting here for WAY too long, and I’m sure you have more important things to do than to read my boring dribble. So let me tell you in stages. The last time I wrote, I was just (painfully) moving into my apartment. That was, I’m sad to say, ( Read more... )

If I ever say that I'm excited about moving, please remind me of these past few days. I had to be out of my old apartment on Monday so my plan was to come back to Tallahassee on Saturday, get the keys to my new apartment and start moving this weekend. That plan went to hell almost immediately. My luggage didn't come on the same flight from ( Read more... )

So as I was writing this, I was sitting on a train in the middle of a train strike waiting to go to Pisa (and am so far a half hour late). Now seems like the perfect time to reglect on the last six weeks of my life. As you can tell, the dig I was on has just ended. Yesterday, I left out home away from home, Radda-In-Chianti, for maybe the last ( Read more... )

Alright everyone, finally an update. This is gonna come in sections so bear with me. Here's the first ( Read more... )