So it's been over two months since I've posted, and I admit that is my fault. But at least now I have a shit load to write about!

What's immediately on my mind: Jim. My boyfriend Jim Short who I met in Arezzo is absolutely amazing. I want to tell him that all the time, but considering we live in different time zones and he's pretty busy at the moment, it's pretty difficult to do so. He's from St. Louis, MO, so it will also be hard to visit him... Oh and did I mention he goes to Rhodes College in Memphis? So it's still gonna be hard even when we're back at school. Bah.

Now what's immediately on my mind: I let Bunny loose in the bathroom and he keeps banging into the door every once in awhile. I expect he gets scared of the noise afterwards and runs to hide under the toilet.

In the recent past: I was in Arezzo, Italia for 3.5 months and I miss it sorely. My last weekend trip (not counting the one across the ocean) was to Roma. Quite a lot of interesting things happened, and I will mention a few here. We went to the Colosseum, the Forum (where a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to... haha), the Vattican (which you don't need a passport to get into, even though it's another country...), the Trevi Fountain, the Piazza Navona, and almost all the other sites on the map, as well as travelling on the inefficient Metropolitana.

So here are the two more important things that happened. My friend Kevin rented a Vespa a Roma, and it went over quite successfully. We all got to take turns riding with him and navigating the one-way streets of Rome. So for our last day there, we thought it would be a good idea if we got a few more Vespas.
BAD IDEA!
Within 15 seconds of getting on the scooter, Aysha fell over and crashed. There's not much else to say except there was a police report and a translation session and money forked over. A bad experience, but a good story to tell at parties.

The second awesome thing that happened followed thusly (is that a word?) The day we went to i Musei Vatticani was an Italian National Holiday, so you can imagine that the museum was packed. I mean, once we got to the Rafael rooms, we were cattle-carred. And there was an annoying man behind us saying "Keep movin' along ladies" as if he had some right to tell us that and as if we had a choice to move any faster. Pirla. Anyway, we finally got into the Sistine Chapel! Which was gorgeous! And in which there was a man who literally counted to ten in his head and then shouted "Shhhh! No foto!" and counted to ten again and so on. So anyway, we're admiring the Sistine Chapel with many many people, and who else should be in there with us but
NATALIE PORTMAN!
That's awesome.
So those are the good stories from the last two weekends, and I shall try to catch ya'll up on everything... slowly but surely!

Mood: nostalgic
Music: Everybody's Doin' It (doin' it, doin' it)
Color: the green color of my kitchen