Aug

It occurs to me…

I think I came here one year ago today…wow!!! That’s kinda crazy. I should have a party or something.

Aug

More on language

I thought this was a pretty good article. Interesting that I’m more interested in stuff like this than in actually learning 😉

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

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ramblings

Aug

The single biggest single-payer socialist medical system in the world is in the United States: Medicare. Untouchable. Defended by Republicans. But itâ€™s more socialist than the German health care system.

and a couple articles
http://www.salon.com/books/nonfiction/index.html?story=/books/feature/2010/08/25/german_usa_working_life_ext2010

I don’t like this articles cuz it sort of makes Obama sound like something other than a republican…
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013683,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct

At some little pub down the street they had an amazing jazz singer and guitarist. In Italy I’ve seen exactly 3 shows. 2 Jazz bands I stumbled onto (both of which were quite good) and 1 irish band that sang 90% in Italian and 10 percent inÂ English (I guess the 10% were Pogues covers tho).

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politics

Aug

Are you OK?

I’m constantly confused when I get this question from Italians. It always comes from waitresses and I should have figured out by now that it doesn’t mean anything like “How are you?”. It means more like “Do you need anything else?”. They just seem to sincerely interested in if I’m OK or something.
Sometimes I forget and just start complaining about the weather or something equally insignificant and then I ask them how they are…then I think do’h and just feel stupid 😉

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Italy

Aug

AmÃ©lie…

Since I have today off I wasn’t really motivated to do anything and just threw on a movie. It was AmÃ©lie…which if you haven’t seen is a french movie from 2001 or so. I absolutely love it!!!
I’m not sure why, but that movie really hits me every time. In fact I’m a big fan of French film. Apart from about 3 seconds of “Inside” 😉 which just sort of bugged me out…

More observations on foreign films….
It’s really hard to multi task when you have to read words on the screen.
and
It’s really hard to nap when you have to read words on the screen.

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Uncategorized

Aug

what was that???

So I was joined by Jeff, Matt and Berger this weekend. It was fantastic. Mostly I enjoyed the witty banter…most of which I can’t remember and even if I did I’m not sure I could print it here 🙂

Saturday we stuck close to home and hit a few places around here.
on Sunday we went to Cinque Terra and hung out on the beach for a few hours. Came back and had Mexican food, then went and closed the Irish and then went to the beach until about 5am…that was a great idea. Who came up with that? Since I slept on the floor the night before I was beat and am really surprised we lasted as long as we did 🙂
At the Beach from 3am we found some chairs and a floaty rubber thing that people had left behind. the guys all went swimming while I hung out. It was a great night!

the original plan was to leave my place by 9am to go see the tower in Pisa…ummmmm…Since we were up so late this plan didn’t quite happen. I took the guys to the train station here and got a text that they were going to take a cab to the tower. Get out for some quick pics and then cab it back to the airport…if I had known I would have joined 🙂

Had today off and I wisely took tomorrow off as well.