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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
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1:29 pm - the scariest part of teaching...
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Teaching itself is going great, actually, despite the subject line. I really love 5th & 6th grade. I have a wonderful faculty mentor, who teaches the rest of the 5th & 6th graders. He's old, but very youthful and sharp-minded, has a blunt and hilarious sense of humor, and is really the sweetest man ever. He never taught me, but I've known him since he began teaching at the lower school when I was in the high school. As for my students, they're wonderful too. There are those particular students (just 2 or 3) who may be grammar proof and will just never get any language. Even so, those kids are really sweet. The majority of them, though, I think are just total geniuses. They constantly surprise and impress me. They make me want to stay on for the next school year.
My responsibilities with the Middle School, though, are a little less enjoyable sometimes. 7th & 8th graders are much more moody, demanding and full of baditude. Tough to deal with on a day-to-day basis when I don't really know most of them through any class, but still have to make sure they're behaving in the halls, at lunch, and at chapel. Soon tutorials are going to start, ( which will just suck probably. )
So far, though, I've decided the scariest part of working at a school (especially a private school) is not the kids, ( but the parents. )
On the brightside, I really enjoy all of my colleagues. Even the ones who were once my own teachers and whom I was afraid would not accept me as a true member of the faculty, are just wonderful and are always asking how everything is going. We have "faculty wellness club" meetings every other Friday afternoon at a local bar for happy hour, which are always fun because we basically just gossip about the students. It's sort of weird to think that this probably once happened when I was a student... but it's amusing nonetheless. There are also many more "young" people on the faculty than when I was a student and even of those who aren't young in age, many are young at heart and appreciate a well-deserved margarita. ;)
So generally things are going well. I don't think I ever realized just how much time and effort teachers put into their work. But I certainly appreciate it now. I have also been partaking in a mandatory week-night 10-10:30 bedtime which has so far been well-needed.
As for the distant future... I still like the idea of grad school for MA in Classics... Wash U has a program, don't know how good it is, but I'm considering that. Probably need to get on the application wagon pretty soon, but I need to get more serious about it in my head too. Moving up to St. Louis would of course introduce a lot of logistical issues that would need solving, and right now life's just very comfortable (except for the occasional teenage-angst-induced family feud at home... you know how it goes).
current mood:  drained
current music: Talking Heads
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| Saturday, July 5th, 2008
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1:09 am - stasis
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I just watched a pretty amazing film, Into the Wild. Interestingly, my brothers had rented it a few days ago, and then I watched it tonight. My siblings, despite how fucking irritating they can be, have been surprisingly me lately with moments of mature insight, like knowing good music and good film. I don't really care to do any review of the movie. It was just good, and we'll leave it at that.
I drank two beers while watching the movie, by myself. My tolerance has gotten pretty low since leaving Memphis, so I knew that two beers in two hours would get me buzzed, and that's precisely why I drank two. I feel like I'm falling into some sort of horrible stasis of near-self-loathing, but it's like I don't care enough to actually self-loathe.
A girl I know from my high school years through choir and theater, who was a year younger than I, died this past week. She had this inexplicable freak cave-diving accident and was in a coma for 16 days in Florida before finally going brain-dead and her family made the call to turn off life-support on Tuesday. I can't think of a more horrendous way to go, except maybe starvation. I only found out about the whole ordeal through an email (of all things) from the head of the high school. The memorial is at the church my family goes to (about twice a year) on Wednesday. I'll be there.
I also miss Joey, but I suppose that goes without saying. He visited last week when my family went to Hunt. It was the most outdoors I think he's ever experienced. I have to admit it was frustrating for the first few days because when I'm in Hunt I want to be out on the river--swimming, rope-swinging, canoing, kayaking, etc--almost constantly (unless soccer is on TV), and he was afraid of the canoe tipping over. I felt bad for dragging him through all of that and had lots of second thoughts on bringing him. But one night we made homemade ravioli for my entire family and I forgot all those thoughts.
We left Hunt two days early, drove to Houston to visit Jess on Friday, had an interesting trip, came back to Austin on Saturday and Joey saw his old frat brother Brent who was in town for the wedding of another brother and fellow Austinite Wes, a guy whom I met long before we were at Rhodes together through my friend Margot's long-ago boyfriend Karl. The end of this very very old entry recalls our reunion of my freshman year. So Brent invited me and Joey to his day-after-the-wedding drinks downtown. Brent ended up being about two hours late, so there me and Joey were there drinking and chatting with basically the closest friends of the bride and groom, only vaguely knowing the groom from our first year of college. But they were incredibly welcoming and not at all awkward about our being there. Stories were shared, some of the people who were spoken of I knew (like Karl), and when Joey and I finally decided to leave at 11 pm because of his early flight the next day (still before Brent showed up), Wes's new wife Meredith made a point to catch us before we left, tell us how thrilled she was to meet us, and invited me to join her and Wes and their friends for their bi-weekly Sunday brunch. We'll see how that pans out.
For now, I am at home with six other people, but also completely alone in so many ways.
Must have sleep now to get up and take my mom and sisters to the airport for their trip to lacrosse camp.
current mood:  lonely
current music: Death Cab
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| Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
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1:52 am - Things I Enjoy:
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- Studying 8th grade Latin for three hours with two very unprepared kids for their final tomorrow.
- Taking two more hours to make a PowerPoint about "Texas Music" for a 7th grade Texas history presentation and editing, with my limited knowledge of GarageBand, a montage of The Eagles, Janis Joplin, Buddy Holly, and ZZ Top at 1:30 AM. Thank God for my Mac or this would have never gotten done.
- Being general go-to Bitch for all helpless causes. Just call me St. Anthony.
Fuck. I'm beginning to think I made a huge mistake in living at home this year.
current mood:  aggravated
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| Thursday, December 6th, 2007
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3:34 pm - es ist kalt
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I should be doing one of any number of things right now. I sort of finished a rough draft for my senior paper on Tuesday, and since then I've been completely unmotivated to do any editing of that draft or studying for my three finals.
Tuesday evening was the Rhodes Singers big concert Christmas at St. Mary's. That one's always nerve-wracking because it's the one most-advertised, very heavily attended, and we record it to go onto a CD that's sold at the bookstore over the next year. Luckily it went very well. We have one more concert early Sunday evening, and that'll be it for Singers.
Yesterday was the last day of classes. I went to German in the morning, which was fun because we just read our poems that we wrote a week or so ago and had German pastry treats. Just after that I was blindsided by a monstrous headache, so I slept through my last Ancient Philosophy class. Whatever. I'm gonna probably get a low B in that class, and I don't give two shits about it. That final's either Monday or Wednesday afternoon, and I suppose I'll get together with some people before then to study.
German final's tomorrow afternoon. Not too worried about it. Guess I'll study some tonight and some tomorrow morning. My last two things are my Medieval Latin take-home final due in by Wednesday and the final draft of my paper due at the same time. I guess I'll be getting my rough draft with comments back from my adviser in about 20 minutes when our Latin class has one last meeting to get through some Geoffry of Monmouth before the final.
I can't believe how unmotivated I am. When I finished that rough draft Tuesday afternoon, I sort of rushed through my analysis and conclusion, and I didn't even read over the whole thing in one sitting before printing it out. So it's probably absolute shit. I had a mind to immediately start editing it that night but after the choir performance I was drained. And then yesterday I did jack shit as well. So now I'm at the point where I just need to get my comments back from my adviser and go from there.
Ugh. Again. What. ever. A week from today this will all be over with and I will only have 3 more courses until graduation.
In other not-so-surprising news, I still miss Italia. And it doesn't help that I've been emailing back and forth with a guy going to the Centro next semester, answering his questions and giving suggestions. I was so nostaglic the other day I actually listed off to him all of our favorite hang-out spots in Rome from last semester and where he could find them. I don't know if living vicariously through him next semester will help or simply make the problem worse. Probably the latter.
Okay, time to go attend my very last Latin class of my undergraduate career..
Motherfucker.. What a weird thing to say.
current mood:  nostalgic
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| Monday, December 3rd, 2007
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4:44 pm - roma homa, per favore
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The curse of my major in Classics is that I am constantly reminded of my time abroad. Right now I'm attempting to finish the rough draft (due tomorrow at 2) of my senior paper, which has to be roughly 20 pages. Miraculously I'm at 12.5 pages. This is quite a feat for me. I still have a long way to go, both in length, and in content to cover, and it may get really rough sometime this evening AFTER my Latin class and AFTER choir rehearsal (all ending probably not before 9)... Whatever, the real thing's not due for another week. I just fear disappointing my paper adviser. :(
But I'm just in a state of nostalgic misery right now trying to write a couple of paragraphs on the Pantheon for comparative evidence to the real topic of my paper: Hadrian's Mausoleum. But all I can think of is my term paper on the Pantheon from last semester, and the oral presentation I gave, and how I could just hop a tram to the Campus Martius during those projects and have a look at the real thing instead of just reading textual descriptions and looking at figures. I am SO sad right now and it's not helping my stress level.
I just need to keep thinking: German final Friday, Philosophy final Monday, Latin final sometime before Wednesday, and Senior Paper due by Wednesday. Then Austin on Saturday... AND I have a LOVELY class schedule for next semester:
MWF 9 am & Friday 1 pm lab: Chemistry and Art (SO excited that this will be my last science credit)
MWF 11 am: Psych Topics - Drugs, Brain, and Behavior
T/Th 11 am: Modern Art (you better believe it!)
T/Th 3:30 pm: Singers Rehearsal
13 hrs. Total. (FUCK YEAH)
That's all. Finito. Le sigh.
current mood: drained
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| Monday, November 26th, 2007
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8:27 pm - wha huh?
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Okay, how did I get to this place where I have less than 3 weeks to finish the semester? Holy shit. I have a week to finish the rough draft of my senior paper. Currently I have 6 very week pages out of the final 20-30 pages. Then I have a week after that to have the complete draft. Oh fuck me. I'm going to be so glad when this is over.
current mood:  stressed
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| Friday, November 2nd, 2007
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3:48 pm - Hooray!
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| Sunday, October 28th, 2007
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5:13 pm - i've lost my concentration station
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I caught Joey's cold at some point yesterday or Friday and I woke up today with sore throat, sniffles, and general headiness.
I have a pile and a half of work to accomplish today, even though I already opted out of teaching Latin tomorrow (taking Wed. instead).
People in the apt upstairs are knocking out walls with a hammer or some shit. Irritating.
I have no motivation to do anything, especially pack up all my shit and go to school to work, which would be the best place to work, but that would require putting on pants. :P
Shit. I still have to come up with a working opening paragraph and thesis for my senior paper... NO idea.
current mood:  sick
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| Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
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9:39 pm - what's lj again?
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It's been nearly two months since my last update... sorry about that.. I'm currently sitting at Joey's computer waiting for him to get back from a meeting on campus. Of course I have lots of other things I could be doing right now, but I have a terrible headache and don't feel much like thinking.
So I'm obviously back in Memphis and at Rhodes now, as it's been for the past month and a half. Molly and I successfully moved apartments in the hottest week ever mid-August. But we really love our new place. It's cheaper, beautiful neighborhood, feels more secure, there's an elevator, and we have a dishwasher.
Big events since coming back:
- Rush. We were back in the house this fall. The renovations done are subtle but we really notice it. And we got a great group of girls. I thought I'd be really torn up about it being my last rush, but now that it's over I can't imagine ever doing it again.
- Austin City Limits Music Fest was amazing. Joey's and my travels down and back were somewhat stressful because we were flying standby. Getting back was harder than getting there, but it was all worth it. My littlest sister Ashley even joined us in the very front of the crowd for Muse, which was still amazing the 3rd time around. I feel like I saw a lot more acts this year, or at least acts that I wanted to see. But we didn't even stay for all of Bob Dylan.. we were so far back it was hard to tell which songs he was performing.
- Buckman Culture Project presentation. This I did last Saturday during Parents Weekend, although my parents didn't come. "We'll be there for graduation," says Mom. It was a lot more nerve-wracking than I thought it would be because we were presenting in front of all these people we didn't know or people who were expecting so much. I had to go last, just by chance, which was also scary, but I made it through fine, and people seemed to be interested in my topic: How Ruins Get Ruined - The Treatment of Ancient Sites in and around Rome. Going through that whole process, though, made me miss the Centro even more, especially with all the pictures I included from the semester.
That brings us up to now. Just got back from Glass Night at the Flying Saucer. I'm going to be so fucking fat by the end of this semester, going out all the time, and hardly having time to work out. Oh, although I have recently gotten into martial arts. No, seriously. I signed up for a self-defense/karate PE credit (cause I need two more) and I actually really enjoy it. Just for 1 hour every Tuesday/Thursday evenings, but after a half semester, I'm about ready to test for yellow belt, and I'm going to continue for the rest of the semester (get my PE credits done) and maybe continue next semester.
So that's about all going on in my life. Nothing terribly exciting. There is the prospect of Teach for America in my future, but it's still sort of iffy. I'm going to start doing the application soon, but we'll see if I actually submit it and when. Otherwise I'm just sort of looking to Joey to see where he might end up for law school.
Maybe I'll go think about reading some Ausonius now..
current mood:  tired
current music: Explosions in the Sky
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| Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
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11:51 am - hey hey you you I don't like your girlfriend
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Had a sleepover last night at Jessica's with both my sisters and her little cousin. It was pretty fun but we all crashed a bit early (around midnight or 1). Then I was awakened this morning from the deepest sleep I've had in awhile by her cousin coming into the room because she was scared from being put in a room by herself last night. So she crawled in bed with Jess and I, but didn't really sleep. I forgot how wiggly little kids are. Then a little bit later she wanted breakfast and kept trying to wake up Jessica, but I could tell she wasn't up to getting up. Who knows what the fuck Kim was doing and why she wasn't helping, even though she was the one who had insisted upon the cousin coming over. So I made her a waffle, gathered up the my sisters' things, and left the cousin with a sleeping Jess, watching Muppet Treasure Island so she wouldn't bother Jess to wake up.
Anyway, here's a ( wikimeme from Jess )
In other news, Joey's on his way home today. I haven't talked to him in over 4 days now because of my time away from the internet this past weekend, and then I guess maybe they shut off his internet just before he was leaving his apartment. I feel bad for him because I remember the feeling I had for about a week or two after being back in the states. It's a horribly homesick and guilty feeling that I just can't explain. Still, I can't wait to be able to call him whenever I want. Also means I'm that much closer to seeing him again.
current mood:  hungry
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| Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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3:12 am - just don't judge me.
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| Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
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12:45 am - ..about time..
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Apologies are in order, but more to myself for being such an easily-distracted lazy bum.
Obviously (or maybe not so) I'm back in the States now. ( The journey home )
Things since then have been pretty chill. Went to Hunt with Jessica in tow for a week immediately upon my return from Europe, and that really was a great way to adjust to life back home. It may have even put me in too relaxed a mood because it's taken me a week or so to get back into a real routine where I'm actually doing stuff other than swimming, kayaking, puzzles (which we CONQUERED) and having Harry Potter read to me..
Jess is in Belize with her family this week, and I have been graced with the privilege of taking care of their Maltese Charlie who is both adorable and a bit of a handful. But he's been pretty chill other than body-checking our maid's 2-year-old daughter today in the kitchen when he thought she was his competition for my lunch scraps. We took the girls to camp Sunday, so they'll be gone 3 weeks. This week and next I have charge of the boys, taking Taylor to a rock-and-roll camp (after which he'll perform at Antones on the 21st!) and tutoring Chris in Latin. Ugh. Today was my first day of all that. Hopefully through all of this I can get my own things done like cleaning out the guest room of all my belongings that got stored in there over the past semester, and working on my Buckman scholarship project due in September. Of course it would be nice if I ever hear from my supposed adviser as I've been expecting for the past two months.. Still not entirely sure how exactly I'll be presenting the material I want to present..
Ciao for now..
current mood:  exanimate
current music: Death Cab - Passenger Seat
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| Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
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12:05 am - quickie update
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hello all, I'm still alive!
Things that have happened in the last month:
- finished all my work at the centro with what I believe was success
- said goodbye to all my friends there with much sorrow
- Amsterdam, where my ipod, but only my ipod was stolen. dumbass pickpocket
- Madrid, many museums, crappy food
- Paris, art, culture, fun, beautiful, but expensive
- London, expensive and HOT weather, but we saw Avenue Q, Hot Fuzz (the movie), Equus (with Daniel Radcliffe!) and Modest Mouse
- Tuebingen, saw Joey, had a nice trip, etc
Then
- met family in Rome, good to see them, irritating to have as fellow tourists, because I was suddenly Suzy Tourguide, which was stupid
- actually didn't go out into the city all that much with them after the first day
- Florence for just a few days with them, saw Allison, went out a few nights, said goodbye to them this morning
Now
- in airport hotel in Rome where we met Parva this evening
- meeting rest of SAS crew at airport in the morning, and going to Bay of Naples area in the morning by bus
- June 9 we come back to Rome for about 11 more days, but Jess and I will be seeing Muse in London on June 16th
- then home on June 20, from which point I don't want to think about returning to this continent for a long time
current mood: sleepy
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| Sunday, May 6th, 2007
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10:18 am - um. am I on acid?
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I just received this lovely piece of junk mail in my Rhodes email.
From: Payton
Subject: That arrangement was discussed, the firstime when I was in Seattle last summer and then acouple months later when they flew both Cap'n Al(Al the Web Guy) and me up to their offices.
The cream of the crop for 2007 - GET IN EARLY! DSDI IS SET TO ROCK YOUR
PORTFOLIO!
DSI Direct Sales, Inc.
Symbol: DSDI
Price: $0.04
There is a MASSIVE PROMOTION underway this weekend! This is hot, read
the news and get on DSDI first thing Monday!
These first photos are mostly of a social bear trying to break into the
Carmickle family mountain house near Kremmling, Colorado, about 100
miles west of Denver.
So I ordered the Daily Special and the young manstarted piling on
meatballs and marinara sauce.
When I first started to fly in the early seventies, the vast resources
of the Internet weren't here yet. My friend Myrna, a former United
Airlines crewscheduler, finally was allowed to go back homeafter
successful surgery for two cancerous braintumors. I thought I might be
ableto overcome the addiction, and even attendedseveral meetings of RSA
(Reality Shows Anonymous)but it was no use.
current mood:  confused
current music: Barenaked Ladies
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| Saturday, May 5th, 2007
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6:49 pm - ciao ragazzi. it's saturday may 5th, and I'm going craaazy!
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Well. This week has been full of ups and downs. I actually don't remember much of this week. Everything's coming to a head, though. Three finals next week: Latin Monday, Greek Tuesday, Ancient City Wednesday. Haven't begun to study for any. Term papers due Monday evening as well, still only halfway through mine.. yep. Through the course of this paper, though, I have discovered that sometimes footnotes in sources provide the best information, and I have finally discovered the absolute joy of writing superfluous footnotes. These are not citation footnotes, no. This paper calls for in-text citation. My footnotes contain such gems as Dio's story about Apollodorus telling Hadrian to fuck off and that his architectural drawings suck. Oh, you already built the building and the proportions are all wrong? Haha, asshole.
In other news, there is going to be an all-Centro meltdown fairly soon as we have banned the use of the words, "leave," "airplane," and "end." That is all. Carry on.
current mood:  anxious
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| Saturday, April 21st, 2007
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1:34 am - felicem Romae natalem diem
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So, I am a Classics major, which means I don't really do math.. So it took me awhile to convince myself that today (or tomorrow for you kids in the Western Hemisphere) actually is birthday number 2760 for the eternal city. Just remember: inclusive reckoning, no year 0, but there are two year 1s!
And what will the Centro be doing to celebrate (slash put off our papers)? Having a cookout which will probably be followed by a rousing game of wine flip-cup. Verbum.
current mood:  silly
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| Sunday, March 18th, 2007
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9:05 pm - ich spraken kein deutsch!
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Back from Tuebingen. The whole break was basically spent either on my ass in Joey's dorm alone, with him in the dorm, or with him when he wasn't in class wandering the little town center. I was quite productive so far as updating Flickr (I know some of the images are still sideways, my uploadr won't let me flip them until they're already online) and facebook pictures. The Sicily pictures are pretty comprehensive of our trip, so check 'em out, even if you have to turn your head a little.
What I saw of Tuebingen- Joey's neighborhood (a 10 min bus from the city center), the main university drag, and the old town- was all really great. People were really very friendly, which really surprised me and also proved problematic when they would try to talk to me on the bus, etc when I would be on my way to meet him at the university for lunch. So he taught me the phrase in the subject line of this entry, which combined with listening to my ipod when alone on the bus, became a good defense mechanism. The countryside and layout of the town was really quaint. Very hilly topographically, but the little Alpine-looking houses and buildings everywhere were adorable. Also I was so happy to see blonde and blue-eyed people (especially the cute little kids) everywhere, not saying that everyone in Germany is.. there's actually a really interesting ethnic mix there in Tuebingen at least.. but it sure was a shift from not really blending in at all in Italy to blending in more than I'd like there. The local food (southern German) was surprisingly good and varied (although there was alot of pork involved, but I steered clear of that anyway), and of course the beer was delicious. Most of the beer we drank while there was local brew, very heavy, tasty, and German. Mmmm.. I hope I find time to go back before leaving Europe and have more.
Seeing Joey was of course great. Met a few of his fellow international students, and went out with them one night when they were interviewing locals for some project (I ended up having a quick conversation in Italian with the bartender too, which was random). The University was apparently at a quiet point, though. A lot of people had already finished the semester and were on break. Joey's classes were just part of a five-week German-intensive course. He doesn't actually start his semester until mid-April, so if there's anyway I can get back aften then, there should be more stuff to do and see. By yesterday, I knew it was about time for me to get back to Rome. My motivation to do anything was circling the drain, and I think we were starting to get on each other's nerves, sort of bickering on and off about nothing. I don't have a problem with bickering (I actually enjoy it a little too much), but I don't think Joey likes it much. I know it's not a problem with us, I think it just comes with knowing someone a little too well and then getting a little stir-crazy.
My trip home today went better than I expected. I had a lot of transportation in foreign languages to navigate: 1 hr train from Tuebingen to Stuttgart, metro from Stuttgart train station to airport, Stuttgart airport, then 2 trains from Roma airport to Centro, which were on different tracks than normal since it was Sunday. But Joey's directions were more than adequate, and all-in-all I was pretty proud of myself. I was surprised too at how glad I was to see my fellow Centristi again, and the regular gang went out for our customary Sunday-night dinner at Al Pao and caught up from break.
Anyway, this was alot more of a post than I meant to do, but that's fine. I'm just putting off finishing my Latin midterm and starting the Greek one.. haha. Back to the grind..
current mood:  grateful
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| Friday, March 2nd, 2007
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12:31 am - Sicilia domani
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We leave for Sicily tomorrow.. I'm basically packed, but I'm being stupid and lazy and not packing the last little things. I'd rather fuck around on the internet instead. This week turned out pretty okay. I actually got my project (aka MY section of the presentation) all finished. My portion of the talk is all ready to go, printed out, done. I'm not too convinced that Colin is in the same boat, but we're bringing some materials with us, and we're planning on going over how we'll switch off during the presentation on the long long bus rides ahead until Tuesday morning. I really just don't even care anymore about it, I've done as much work as I could, and after Tuesday I'll be home free... until I have to do both a Latin and Greek midterm over Spring Break.
(the Greek one, no thanks to Bob for reminding Forastè, sparked an interesting exchange in class Wednesday)
at the end of Greek class
Forastè: okay, for Monday after break, read up to line 20, page 9..
Bob: *whines* but we have a Latin midterm due!
Forastè: oh! midterm! nevermind, write out a translation of these two chapters [which we have NOT gone over in class] for your midterm. due after break.
Whole Class: dammit, Bob!
Colin: Bob, I'm going to dismember you after class.
Okay, it's almost 1am. Time to actually finish packing and quit pissing off my roommate who's attempting to sleep. Sorry I had nothing of import to say. Won't be much internet access for us on the Sicily trip, so posts will be scant, if even existent. Whatever, we're going to Sicily!
current mood:  excited
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| Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
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12:51 am - h'koay, so.
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Quick update before I fall over from exhaustion:
- Joey and Mia got here yesterday
- the past two days have been stressful beyond all reason trying to be a good guide for them but also not fail/miss classes
- yay, I'm going to stay with Joey in a bed and breakfast this weekend (aka, getting the fuck out of the centro)
- nsdkjrhak;njdf
- giving oral partner presentation (that sounds dirty) in less than two weeks when we go to Sicily but we basically have to have it all done before we leave for Sicily next Saturday (or is it Friday?) AHHH
- I still love Rome, although it seems to have literally exploded with tourists during the past week.. or maybe it's just everytime we go into the city on a field trip it's either god-awful early, raining, or both, and now when I go in during normal times there's more people. although, I really think it's just exploded.
- also, cocks.
current mood: tired
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| Friday, February 16th, 2007
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2:47 pm - st. valentine, what?
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Okay, first of all, I wanted to post this two days ago but LJ has been a huge whore and would not load for two whole days. Damn internet connection... But here is what I wrote on Valentine's Day.
February 14, 2007
I have been a vehement hater of Valentine's Day in years past. Go back and read my old entries about it (2003 - not even an actual entry on V-day, but the events surrounding it sure weren't happy, 2004 - spent single, playing in the snow with my sibs, 2005 - this year I actually received stuff, and wasn't single for it, but was still alone on the day. looking back on that one, the consumerism is sickening, 2006 - wasn't a bad year. Joey made it worthwhile, but my mood concerning the holiday was still a bitter one) It really is a stupid Hallmark holiday. This year, however, I was redeemed. I don't know why this made such a huge impact on me, but I got to hang out with the big man, ( St. Valentine )
himself today. And it was awesome.
Okay, end of post-dated entry.
Went out to the pub again last night, things got crazy and fun, had three rounds of Vodka-Limone with Melissa. Once I had those three in me, I had a little chat with the bartender who's always there. Why does my Italian always get better when I'm drunk? Maybe I should just be drunk all the time so I can communicate with people. Anyway, learned that her name is Vannia or Vagna or something like that. I can say it, just don't know how to spell it.
Woke up today around 11 with a bit of a hangover, but that's starting to be a normal weekend occurrence (is this a bad thing?), and I was determined to get all my errands done: grocery store, tabbachi for stamps and cellphone minutes, and back to Oviesse to argue about the zipper on my boots. However, I was smart (for once) and asked Pina (the direttore's wife/our mom) about return policies at Italian stores. She told me they probably wouldn't take it back (fuck) BUT, upon seeing the retarded boot, she told me that she knew a place that could fix the zipper. It's way across town, though, but, angel that she is, she offered to take it there for me on Monday. OMG I love this woman. So hopefully in the next week I will have my kick-ass €30 boots and they will WORK!
Okay time to get an hour of work done (hopefully on an oral presentation to be given in Sicily in two weeks, COLIN) before the WINE SYMPOSIUM this afternoon that Franco has arranged for us. Did I mention that I love him? He's our Big Papa. :)
current mood:  giddy
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