So I guess I should make the obligatory "I'm home again" post (even though I've been home for 9 days now ( Read more... )

So, what do you get when you cross

( 300,00+++ people on the Via Fori Imperiali, )

Ciao a tutti! Sono a Roma adesso ( Read more... )

I feel like such a socialite this weekend.

Friday: Eli and I went to the ballet downtown. Very classy stuff, that.

Saturday:
-Afternoon: I went to Emerald Downs (the racetrack) to see the Belmont. I didn't win anything on the Belmont, but I did bet on the winning horse* in the second race, which paid for ( Read more... )

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I just finished my last in-class final!

Now I just have my Italian take-home final, which I've actually been looking forward to doing!

Summersummersummersummer!!

(not sleeping makes me punchy, what can I say...)

so, life has been exciting recently...

-I had a master class with Kurt Elling last Thursday. Oh. My. Gawd.

-I got to practice my Italian this morning with my cab driver, who was from Eritrea (an ex-Italian colony), and lived in Milan for a year. Very interesting conversation...

-I was here at work at 6:20 am this morning. Ugh ( Read more... )

Se tu fossi nei miei occhi per un giorno ( Read more... )

AAggghhh!!!

I looked at THE GROSSEST PICTURE I have EVER SEEN the other day, and now I can't get it out of my brain. I keep seeing it in my mind, and it's giving the heebie-jeebies of the worst kind. (It literally makes my skin crawl and my stomach turn...)

Any advice for how to get it out of my head??

I feel rather accomplished because the Squirrels received 3.34% of the entire vote. That's more than 3 times the percentage of the presidential vote Ralph Nader received in the last election. Heh ( Read more... )