well, i finally did it. i bought my tickets, and today recieved my confirmation that my student status went through (allowing me to get slightly cheaper tickets). So it's all settled. 10.30 am July 4th I fly out of Malpensa, arriving in DC at Dulles at 2 pm. Which means hopefully I'll be out of the airport by 3pm. My brother will be picking me up, and I've already told him that our first stop out of the airport (if I dont find one there!) will be at a Starbucks :D

The more I got to looking at tickets, I realized that I kinda liked the idea of being back in the states for the 4th of July. I've only missed it once, when I was living in England. I did nothing special that day, went to work like normal. I think it will be a nice welcome back to the states to go "home" and watch the fireworks. I'm hoping for a big burger and fries, a couple beers, and a nice show before I pass out from jet lag.

I'm not sure what we'll be doing. If we'll hang out in DC and watch the show, or head back to williamsburg. I'm hoping not williamsburg though, as I'm guessing the show there would be quite limited (kinda like the year I spent the 4th in Prineville, OR... the show consisted of about 4 or 5 fireworks spread out over half an hour. now THAT was pathetic.)

Anyways, I'm down to 5 weeks of classes, one week vacation, one week final presentations, and then 4 days to wrap everything up before getting on the plane. The plan is to head down to Macerata once again, and hopefully actually see Jackie this time during my week vacation before presentations. Of course as in all things with my school, we probably wont find out what days we actually have our presentations on until the night before. For example, our presentation for triennale was supposed to happen originally on the 2nd of May. It's been re-scheduled 3 times already, all 3 times cancelled. now there are rumors it'll happen next week. who knows.

but no complaining about class. now it's time to go, as people are arriving and there is a disco calling my name. gotta have some fun before i leave!

I got tired of the green. Not that the blue is much better, but a bit. I want to re-do the look completely, but alas html is not my strong point. While I could make a site that looks the way I want it to no problem, I get confussed with these automated postings and how they get stuck into it. So until I get that figured out, this is what I get. Actually, I think I may have figured it out. Iàm just too lazy right now to actually do it :D

I really dont have anything interesting to say, but I havent posted in awhile so i figured I would. I got the blog links fixed (sorry Annika!). This damn cold is still lingering around, and while I feel a lot better (as in I can actually somewhat think) I'm still attached to a roll of toilet paper.

Milan has had spring for the past week or so, but the last couple of days it has decided to cool down some, which I'm not extremely appreciative of. Thus today's foto, another from my weekend in Puglia.