BTW... i'm going on a free trip to Amsterdam Nov 15-18 for a company meeting.

& also the van Gogh museum
Boom Chicago
& lots of walking around, photo-taking for future paintin'-making.

i suppose it'll be frightfully cold by my south carolinian standards... must buy a sweater...

meh. i had fun, but i see no reason to come back. the service industry has general attitude of suckness that i find intolerable. our hotel staff & every waitress/hostess & cabdriver that we've encountered has acted as if we weren't worthy of common courtesy. & it's cold when it rains. & it's always raining ( Read more... )

ciao a tutti! so wheee for me, i'm about to bite the bullet again & sign up for a myspace account. i tried it once, many moons ago, but the site was so clunky & un-user-friendly (read: non-LJ-like) that i cancelled it the very next day. per esempio, while trying to log in, the site had the audacity to tell me that "you must be logged in to do that ( Read more... )

i want to study figure painting in italy for 3 months. that's what i want. i've started shopping around online, but haven't found what i'm looking for yet. everything is either university campus style & geared toward young students just learning the basics, or toward the well-to-do & idle who want to discover a new facet of their personal ( Read more... )

non si puo vedere la paese dove' ...one is born. i can't finish that in italian, b/c a ladybug has distracted me. crawling up the inside of my bedroom door... i've been seeing a lot of ladybugs lately- i've seen them in every room of the house. i think first of the movie 'under the tuscan sun' & then i think "omen?" b/c i just read 'the alchemist' ( Read more... )

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9 foto del Duomo (Santa Maria dei Fiori)
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ciao bei amici!

so... my 3rd time to florence i took 600 pitchas. yeah, i know. you'd think i would've photographed it all by now, but apparently i had not. today's installment features the Boboli Gardens, located behind the Palazzo Pitti. I giardini dei Medici are a sprawling park of gorgeousness. there are hedge-labrynths, fountains, statues ( Read more... )

ciao amici!
ecco un altro post di fotographia...
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bensvegliata my peeps!

firstly, linkage: i must do this- parkour.

secondly, i would like to state for the record that american coffee is teh suxxors. please compare this statement to one made in a pre-viaggio post, here.

( thirdly, it's pitcha time! w00t w00t! )