I saw like 4 or 5 people post this on their journals, and im going to do it 1. to see just what kind of gems/trash the top printed books are, 2. to encourage myself to read the good ones, 3. this list is really long and annoying to scroll through so it'll mess up anyone's friend list who still reads this thing.

The Big Read reckons that the average ( Read more... )

Interesting things I recently spotted on the interstate:

A van giving away free shoes to kids

The Charmin Plush Potty van, 2008 Tour (???)

A real vintage Delorean

SUV with every seat filled to the ceiling with Spiced Wafer cookie boxes

Worlds largest candle

Holy shit. So this thing goes back to 2003. Thats terrifying. Ok world, to update you on my progress through life ( Read more... )

shocking and scary

Life is pretty ok.

I think I'm finally getting a sense of how life-changing this trip will be for me. I guess its kind of stupid to say "life-changing", really everything you do is life-changing, deciding NOT to go and stay home would have been, so would sitting on the couch eating Hagendaz (however ridiculous way they spell that) but yeah. Last week our program ( Read more... )

Sicily = cool
me = tired
Berlin = me until Sunday

Heads up, I'm leaving for Sicily tomorrow morning until next Saturday and will be out of contact. No computer and classes every day is going to be weirddddd. Plus I know nothing about Sicily, but its supposed to be a crazy place with Greek,Roman,medieval, crusades, muslim, and baroque stuff so that's cool. THEN the next week after that I have ( Read more... )

Been doing some cool things lately. Last weekend I went across to the eastern coast to visit my roommate's mom with her and another girl from the Centro. Her mom just moved to Italy around 2 weeks ago and wound up in this tiny medieval town on a big hilltop, living in a room in a pink brick estate thats hundreds of years old. We got to stay in her ( Read more... )

I have to get to class. At the Vatican. Across Rome. In an hour. And its pouring out. And there's a transit strike so no buses.

Innnteresting...