well, tomorrow is my last day of computer access before i get back to the states. But tomorrow is also my last day in Milano, so I dont think I'll be spending it hanging out on the computer. (Dont worry though Carole, I'll be sure to post when I get to the US!)

The last couple days here have been packed, with the Sting concert in piazza duomo Friday night, and notte bianca last night and me running around during the day trying to get everything done and ready. Today I've still got to go buy a carry-on bag, and get all packed up and ready to go, yet im also supposed to be at a friends house in an hour and a half to watch the soccer game, and another friends house after that to help him with flash. meanwhile im still sitting here with my hair dripping from my shower and slowly letting the coffee seep into my system as the last two nights I havent gotten home till 6 or 7 am. ahhhhhh

but just for you mom, I finally have a foto of my in front of the duomo (well, kinda!)



And yes, the sun is rising, not setting!

Anyways, time for me to get going and enjoy my last week in Italy!

well, yesterday i reached the two week mark. and i slept through it. literally.

things got so crazy here with work, that sat night i slept only 5 hours, sunday night only 3, and monday night not at all. not until noon on tuesday. at which point i went to bed, work finally done, and slept until 8 this (wed) morning. i woke up only for about an hour around 8pm tuesday night, hungry, ate and then went back to sleep. i was a bit groggy this morning when i woke up, but after coffee and a shower im feeling good. it was great to sleep.

now with only 5 days left in milano, i decided to pack my bags. as i definitely have two bags worth of stuff i wont be using the rest of my time here. So now that's all pack, and what remains I'll *hopefully* be able to get in a carry on (which i need to go buy as normally i only use a backpack but this time for more space i'll buy a roller). If I cant get it all in I get to ditch some more winter sweaters. feels weird to have the bags packed. Even though I dont fly out until the 4th, tuesday i take off for macerata and probably wont be coming back to milan until the 3rd. So i need to have everything packed before. Granted i didnt need to do it today, for some reason i wanted to.

and so begins the count down... 12 days till america.

I know I know... I'm way behind on blogging. but in all fairness, i've been really busy! Plus my beloved computer decided to die. It's now in the shop for the next week while they try and figure out what is wrong with it, and if it's even possible or worth it to repair it... I'm not sure what is wrong, but i do know it's something bad, and serious, and most like expensive. ugh, perfect timeing, 1 week before school is done! luckily i had warning signs, and had copied everything to my external drive the night before. my plan was to try and re-format the hard drive the next day to see if it would help. well, i have no idea if it would have helped because the computer refussed to let me do it, and then proceeded to only give me a screen of jumbled random text when i turned it on. This is just the last, and fatel step of a long list of things that have gone bad with my computer in the past few months.

But, to my rescue came one of my profs (one of the only good things at my school) who immediatly upon hearing about my computer offered to let me borrow one of his laptops that he doesnt use. So once again ive got a computer at home.

The past few weeks have been extremely busy, so much to do for school, and lots of flash projects to work on. I have taken a couple break though, the first being a trip up to Colico with Carole and Annika (from ExPats), and the second being when a couple friends from Macerata came up to visit me for 2 days this past week! Yes, I've got photos, but they're all on my external which isnt hooked up right now. So those will be uploaded later, along with more detailed descriptions (including Luca getting lost in Milan without his cell phone, and our journey to find him).

In more recent news, I've only got a few days of school left! 3 more classes this week, a presentation Monday, and another presentation the following Monday and then I'm all done! Wohoo! After which it will be a quick trip to Macerata for a few days before getting back up to Milan in time to catch my flight to the states. I really cant believe that 3 weeks from now I'll be in Virgina. It's going to go by like it was nothing! Really though, I'm having a hard time comprehending it. It just doesnt seem like a reality. I'm sure it'll probably hit me after I've been there for a month.

Oh, I've also just bought La Verità del Ghiaccio (The truth of the ice) the newest Dan Brown (author of Davinci Code) book. I havent read a book all year, as I wanted the next book I read to be in Italian. Well, it finally is. I just bought it yesterday so I'm only about 25 pages into it, but it's going good so far. I dont know the meaning of every word, but I'm able to figure out the idea from context and have yet to use the dictionary. It's a bit slower than reading in English, but I'm happy with the rate I'm going. I also really like his writing, and although this seems to have the same basic plot as Angels and demons & The Davinci Code, I still think it'll be good. Another one of my profs was reading it and said he really liked it, so we'll see how it pans out. Probably wont get it done before I get back to the states, too much to do here to sit around all day reading. But who knows, I got a couple of longer train rides and a flight coming up, so I may just be able to get through it :D

That's all for now, it's way too hot in my room (where the internet is) to hang out here any longer writing. Maybe once it cools down some tonight and if I find the time I can get those photos posted.

In case you are wondering where I have dissapeared to, I've been eaten alive by flash and html coding. 2 more weeks of classes. whew. Of course then I'll be on vacation, and packing to get ready to move to the states. so blogging wont be too common of a thing until i get to virgina i have a feeling.

Although this weekend, tomorrow to be precise I am going up to Colico to hang out with Carole and Annika for the night! I wish I could have gone to the monster gtg, but alas there is that coding keeping me here. So instead I will just take the night off. Cant wait to see them, and I'll be sure to take some photos to post (as I'm sure they'll be doing as well!)