Not doing work, blogging's more fun.

Right now I'm supposed to be working on an article style paper dealing with the psychological aspects of the Amanda Knox case. As you can see, I'm not. I've always been the sort of person who needs to do a hundred things at once, especially when I'm working on homework.

I haven't done anything too exciting since my last blog. The roomies and I attempted to find a good sushi place (I would not be eating the sushi of course) but for some reason all sushi places are closed on Mondays. There was one takeaway place across the river but thats a long way to walk, and another one closer but it looked way too fancy and expensive. So we did apperitivo across the street. It was quite good. A word of caution: if you pick up a orange and white layered cake thing, it is NOT some form of orange cake. It is salmon. Do not expect sweet goodness but fishyness.

After apperitivo I ventured out again to the rainy streets of Florence for Cinema club. Last weeks movie was interesting and funny and I was hoping for a repeat (though hopefully with better graphics). This week's movie was Guilietta degli Spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits) a movie by Federico Fellini. Its basically about a woman who finds her husband has been cheating on her and eventually finds the emotional stregnth to leave him. Fellini claimed (according to IMBD) that he took LSD in preperation for this film and after watching it this claim seems pretty accurate. Its an artsy film and doesn't pretend to be anything else. There are several disturbing images especially as Giulietta becomes more and more haunted, not only by the spirits, but by her husband's affair and her own forays into another more, ahem, "liberated" lifestyle. The end is abrupt and confusing but I think the Fellini was trying to get across the fact that she had emotionally liberated herself from her husband and was ready to leave him. There were some really disturbing parts, really creepy images but the coordinator said this would be the weirdest movie we would watch. I wish I could show some pictures but none I found on Google image were the creepy kinds.

Ah well. I suppose I should get back to work. I've actually gotten stuff done! A thesis (which needs focusing) and ideas, several sources and about three quarters of a page of typing. Whoo hoo!

Just because its starting to become my signature I'll leave you guys a picture. I'll post one of me and the roomies for those of you not in Italy. Its not the world's best picture but it'll do. This was also the day of my first gelato in Pisa.

From left, Gillian, me, Alaina and Sam.

I apologize if you guys don't like my picture choice for your introduction to the world.