Never had a better Monday.

This one contains nothing exciting. But I felt the need to update this thing so here is a brief and boring account of my Monday. But I guess the fact that I had an especially good MONDAY is sort of monumental ...

Class. Lunch all’appartamento. Homework. Research for my History & Culture of Food in Italy class paper in the library. Had the room to myself for research- just what I needed.
2nd night in a row I made dinner! (Last night I made pasta, concocted red sauce from straight tomato juice & some spices, and sautéed some zucchini). Tonight got fresh baguettes from “Mr. Man” (that’s what E calls mr. old guy who gave us the wine the other night) at Alimentari. He didn’t make me pay for them. Sliced some zucchini & sautéed them with some salt and pepper, cut up some pomodori (tomatoes) and sweet red pepper and some of that delicious cociatta cheese. Melted the cheese on the halved loaf and made sandwiches drizzled with balsamic vinegar. A successful experiment. Go me!
Then to my new internet spot where I have to pay for internet but the connection is SOO much better. Finished uploading all my Florence pictures FINALLY (they are up on Facebook: ). Skyped very successfully with Dad. It was great to hear from him and to hear how much he was really enjoying his first Skype experience. Then, I skyped with Stephie!!! Ahhh it was so great to see her. She is beautiful! It’s like how we always were- I’m so glad we can keep this up. Thank you, technology gods, thank you! Then a miraculous thing happened- TARA NOELLE DEMMY got on Skype! So the 3 of us were able to 3-way-chat and it was sooooo wonderful. And yesterday I was able to talk and webcam with Ms Katie Dahm, so I got all the roomies within 24 hours. Love them. Can’t wait to be back together with them again. We make a good team.
Then I met some of the girls-Jess, E, Stephanie, and Tiziana- at Fashion. Phillip eventually came and we went out for drinks (well, originally I for a gelato but the gelateria was closed!), but we wound up at Dempsey’s for a drink. He made me speak Italian which I appreciated because sometimes I slack when I shouldn’t. We exchanged names of musicians to look up so I can add some Italian and Swiss music to my collection. We met a very friendly British girl named Joti (Jody maybe? Couldn’t quite tell) who made fun of my American accent- and she had it down to a T. She convinced us to check out the karaoke going on at the Shamrock pub next door. Phillip & I went and watched the drunkies sing terribly. Laughed. I saw Mr. Dancin Machine from the other night at Domus! On our way out we rain into Joti- she got seriously concerned that we were leaving and chased us outside, took a picture of us, and told me to watch out for the sleazy Italian men. Due to her drunkenness and thick accent, Phillip didn’t understand what she had told me- so I taught him the word “sleazy.” A good word to know here, at least in my experience.

The end.