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The Countdown

A month from right now, I'll be in Padova, Italy (hopefully asleep--it's six thirty in the morning there!) ...wow. That's all I can think, is, wow. Last night as I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep I realized that in one short month I'd be on a jumbo jet to Rome, or maybe the connection to Venice? Holy crap. It just doesn't compute with my life right here, right now.

Right now, I'm hanging out with Mandy who's in town for a while. Tonight we went to see Avatar in 3D (it was great); we had a beer at Blueberry Hill before the movie. That was the sum total of our excitement for the day.

I haven't done anything to get ready for this trip since I mailed my passport to Boston some weeks ago. I haven't spoken Italian in close to a month, or even listened to it, for that matter! My room's a mess, and I have no idea what I'm going to take. All these thoughts were swirling around my head as I lay there last night, willing sleep to overtake me.

I know it's going to be hard, really hard, but so, so fun, too. I'm really excited, just really nervous too. I've never lived anywhere but here, never lived more than a fifteen minute drive from the house I grew up in! But, at the same time, I am so excited. I can't believe it sometimes, even. I'm going to live in Italy! For five months!

Wow.

Oh, Wallgreens

Why do you make such lousy scans of my beautiful pictures? And why, come to think of it, don't I have my own scanner? Ah, well; that's life.

And these are photos from my beautiful film camera, which I've discovered captures a beautiful quality of light and makes great images if I use it right.



A couple more are up on flickr; more coming soon! (I hope.)

2763 words

I'm only 2,240 words behind where I should be, that's not bad, right? Maybe I'll go to a write-in next weekend and try to catch up/get ahead. Also, do all my homework.

I love NaNoWriMo, but this November's pretty hard in terms of schoolwork (and motivation), which then makes writing a novel in 30 days a lot harder. Also, I have more of a plot idea then last year, but no idea how to move from one part of it to another. Another pro for the "winging it" column?

Thinking of getting a new tattoo...

stars, originally uploaded by black_cinnamon.

I love love love these stars (not to mention the cute shoes!) but I don't really think I want my first 2 tattoos to be below my calves. That's setting a weird precedent, I think.

Voglio andare a Padova...

IT'S been so long my fingers have forgotten how to type "blogger." I'd like to say I've been in an introspective place, absorbing what's around me and trying to make sense of it, but it's not true. I never really get past the absorbing part, to be honest.

I've just been hell of busy.

Five purely academic course (no art=boo-hoo), one that meets every day at NINE AM, trying not to get burnt out and sleeping have been my life. (Plus, that absorbing-beautiful-things bit.) But this won't be my life for so much longer....

Today I reserved my spot on the group flight to Venice by way of Rome. We leave from JFK int'l airport on Jan 28 (which is in under three months!) and it will be:
a. the longest flight I've ever been on
b. my first-ever trip to Europe
c. the first time I've lived outside of St. Louis
d. completely awesome
e. perhaps a good excuse to hang out in NYC for a few days before I leave? (I love this city...)
f. going to school in a foreign language.
g. eating, breathing, chatting, sleeping, dreaming? in a foreign language until it becomes a lot less foreign.
h. taking a lot of pictures
i. missing people
j. meeting new people!

I could go on, but J seems a good place to stop. I've been thinking about the second-to-last one quite a lot. When two of my best friends went abroad, they kept blogs semi-regularly to keep in touch with their friends and loved ones, and share the experience. It was a great idea, and I'd like to do it too. What I'm waffling about is whether to do it here, and just add to the random inanity, or start a new blog specifically for Italy. Starting over from scratch could mean a new blogger blog, or maybe a tumblr? I have one, which I could very well re-purpose into an "adventures in italy" sort of thing....

other things:
--i taught myself to knit last week!
--sunday is the first day of NaNoWriMo. am i ready?
--not failing any classes, yet.
--haven't read for fun lately, :(
--a picture! of my home now.