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Oct 07, 2004 17:35

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 ( Read more... )

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silverspeck October 7 2004, 09:23:22 UTC
how awesome.

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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itsolivia October 7 2004, 09:26:50 UTC
yea, i am sola. sono da sola. :)

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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silverspeck October 7 2004, 11:20:43 UTC
how exciting!!! i'm very happy for you :)

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itsolivia October 8 2004, 04:00:30 UTC
do you know where in italy youll be going?

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ex_skip140 October 7 2004, 10:50:37 UTC
eh.

I'VE SEEN BETTER.

hahahahahaaaaa!

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itsolivia October 8 2004, 03:24:38 UTC
this is one of the many reasons why i love you. its doesnt beat the one you did of your hand and me. hahahaha.

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monkeyx3 October 7 2004, 12:57:30 UTC
I LOVE IT! Everyone was really really loud when you won! the best part was watching everyone careening their heads left and right looking for you! When they were describing the winner I knew it was going to be you. YAY!

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itsolivia October 8 2004, 03:23:55 UTC
I LOVE IT TOO!

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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skorpeo October 7 2004, 19:02:45 UTC
you're travelling alone? before i forget to tell you later, i love you!!!! that is awesome!! there is nothing like a trip abroad alone.

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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itsolivia October 8 2004, 03:21:43 UTC
yep, im all alone, but i keep meeting gabs' mod friends so im not TOO alone.

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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skorpeo October 8 2004, 05:21:25 UTC
i've decided i'm not going to lavarone. first of all, it's very vague on where it even is. if my assumptions are correct, it's way up in the mountains. i won't land in milan until 4pm on saturday the 30th, and nick is supposed to go on at 6!! so i've decided to go to vienna instead, and then a night train to rome on the 3rd/4th.

i still wanna see pix!!!

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danschank October 7 2004, 20:44:36 UTC
nothing shameful or touristy about the vatican. st. peters is cinematic and amazing. and now a weird story about "the last judgement"...

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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itsolivia October 8 2004, 03:22:53 UTC
you shoudve been in my headphones telling me this when i was looking at it. dmn you.

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