before i go into my touristy action packed day, i have to laugh and tell you guys that I won the "Value Award" from my work, a prize of 500 bucks for the employee who shows 6 different forms of value. now, im laughing because Natalie and I went in on this together, and she nominated me and wrote some elaborate things about me. They NEVER ever pick
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now i don't know if you mentioned this before, but did you go alone on this trip? do you have family/friends in the areas you're visiting? i am so excited for you and can't wait until myles and i go to italy! that's our vacation next year :)
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i had a friend fly down from paris but she already went home to get back to work. i have made a couple friends in rome (one of whom i met years ago in SF). they keep giving me numbers to friends in the pther towns im going to (Perugia, Urbino, Verona, Venezia), although no one knows anyone in Urbino.
which is fine, because i like travelling alone and i am the only person i argue with on this trip. plus, ive met even more people and Italians are soooo nice. :)
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I'VE SEEN BETTER.
hahahahahaaaaa!
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natalie and i are splitting the money and we are spending it at Niemans.
YEEHAW! and the fact that Maria had to read my name out loud..love it even more.
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I WANT TO SEE PICTURES WHEN YOU COME HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
e-mail me when you'll be in rome again. i leave for vienna on the 29th, and plan to be in rome on the morning of the 4th. army1967@yahoo.com
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ok, ill be back in Rome on the 31st but its literally to catch my flight back to SF on the morning of the 1st. :(
everyone here is going to Lavarone, but im not too into mod weekenders, although it would be cool to see Nick Rossi somewhere outside of SF. and SYD is going.
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i still wanna see pix!!!
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if you notice in the last judgement the vast majority of the souls depicted are the saved souls, with the damned occupying about 20% of the bottom right half. this is peculiar to micelangelo (think of all your favorite mel gibson-esque northern renaissance heavy metal art). anyway, there's a theory among art historians (leo steinberg, most famously) that michelangelo, who studied st. thomas of aquinas, was aware of/a supporter of a text by aquinas later censored during the counter reformation, in which aquinas theorizes a version of christianity with no finite hell (he believed at the day of judgement the guilty would simply disappear, or something along those lines). so the thought is that the small space allotted to hell in the picture is actually deliberate and polemical, pointing to michelangelo's lack of a belief in it at all. cool, no??
-"the catholic"
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