// italia.

[music italian football match]

super quick. i'm currently having a rather epic battle with an italian keyboard. it's kicking my ass, if you must know. on the end of term break with maria and kelly. we hightailed it out of england last saturday and haven't looked back yet.

venice - exactly what it looks like in the movies. aka. amazing. however, being northern italy, it was still freezing and rained alot.

florence - again, amazing. better weather and tons to do. saw the david and spent a solid 15 minutes just staring in awe. he's the furthest thing from over rated. absolutly worth the £6 to see him

pisa - saw the tower. refused to pay the 15 euro. got the pictures. had fun anyway. successfully ordered food in italian without maria's help. score!

rome - day one and it's already the most amazing city i've ever been to.

next - greece. the most movement i'll be doing that week if lifting the beer to my mouth and spreading the suntan lotion.

more updates when i get a decent keyboard. lovelove.
happy easter.

//feliz cumpleaños

[music - reggaton]

happy 23rd birthday to maria.

she has been 23 for 7 minutes.

yay maria.

tonight we party in venice.

how's that for memorable?

ciabatta anyone?

//apparently it's march...

[music marianas trench]

belated :(

[music reef - put your hands up]

this is a belated british mother's day note.

i love you mummy.

and i love that i dared you to eat a silk worm in thailand and you actually did it.

once more with feeling.

//cosmic realignment.

[just jack - starz]

you know how some people can sense change coming? i'm not one of them. change has a way of just smacking me in the face.

i'm having some karma issues this week. for everything good that happens, something 5 fold worse sneaks up on me. the best part, it's only wednesday.

and perfect example... i just wrote out this whole post. i was starting to feel good, relaxed a little, and then just as i went to publish it, it dissapeared. poof, gone. -cut to my blood pressure skyrocketing.-

tuesday i went on a field trip with Anna and the other upper fours. we went to a Hindu Mandir (temple) in north LDN. Tracy (High House Assist. Housemistress - AHM) and I were chapperoning which meant that we got to tag along, do minor work like round up with kids and hand out packed lunches, and sleep two hours there and two hours back on the coach. *** we must have looked fabulous with our mouths gaped open and our heads all askew... we had a great time and had so much fun with the kids, plus we're field trip buddys. we always end up getting called in together, and it's always a laugh. so, i get home and decide to check my email. there's one from Jayne (Gap co-ordinator amongst other things) telling me that i will no longer be working in le roy, but rather taking the crap ass job of doing cover on friday nights. bare in mind that fridays used to be my day off, meaning that i could leave early and have a long weekend. maria and seve both have mondays off and i had fridays off. it was a beautiful arrangement. now alrun has stolen my thursday nights in le roy (le roy being the youngest house with 11 year olds in it, and my favorites) AND my day off. friday was the only day that worked for me because i have to be here every morning to help Anna any way. (and completley beside the point but relevant to me hating her -- apparently alrun has now dyed her hair the same color as mine. first my job, then my day off, and now my hair? wtf??)

i'm a little more than miffed about this, but anyway... the news has been out for less than 24 hours about my getting me boot, but le roy (bless them) are already up in arms about it all. they don't want alrun working with them twice a week, but would rather i get the double shot. i've actually heard rumours of petitions. hahaha. i'm down with doing both tuesday and thursday. infact, i've proposed that as an alternative to the astronomically idiotic idea that they currently have in place. i've been wanting to work more anyway. load me up with le roy goodness. but now that i've vented (twice) and made you all feel my misery, i'm off for lunch with seve. i'll keep you updated on my crap life that has become this week.

ps. mum & dad - too lazy to email... can't find that letter of proxy thing on the uvic website. sos.

// the evil and the gleeful.

[music x mika - grace kelly]

my house has devil children in it. take me as a piss ant 14 year old, times it by 5 piss ant little girls and then multiply all the crap that i did by 12. they are satan spawn and should be expelled. they honestly make me wish that capital punishment was still okay here.
everything from lifting the goldfish out of the bowl, to throwing billiards balls at the walls (which leave large, perfectly round dents in the plaster, btw,) screaming, swearing and just generally annoying the crap out of everyone else in a 100m vacinity.

this is me aplogizing to j and mum & dad for being such a terror, because if i was even a 16th of how bad these kids are, i must have been unbearable.

but on gleeful note, we had a fire alarm go off at 7.30 this morning (that part's not so glee inducing), and as i walked inside after freezing my ass off on the tennis courts for 20 minutes, i noticed the fish. two goldfish live in our front common room and swim around merrily enjoying their 3 second memories. it then occured to me that they are fire-proof-pets. they live in water. you always worry about getting the kids out, but never the fish because they're fire-proof. kind of a brilliant idea for a pet, i think.