Okay, there is now a kitchen (though no gas or faucet), a bed (complete with mattress!), four chairs, two bookshelves (in the bathroom?), a couch, and working lights and electrical outlets. These are ten things that weren’t there yesterday. In addition my apartment is finally starting to look satisfyingly empty, and tomorrow I don’t have [...]
Archive for September, 2009
whew
Posted in regular, year 3 on Wednesday 30 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
uh oh
Posted in regular, year 3, tagged apartment on Tuesday 29 September, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It is Monday night at 1:20 in the morning (well, Tuesday morning). My lease ends in exactly 48 hours. We just went over to the new apartment and one wall still needs to be whitewashed (so there are still supplies and tools on the floor), two out of four of the lights need to be [...]
Cicileo
Posted in descriptive, year 3 on Wednesday 23 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For exactly one more week, I will have the privilege of living down the street from the Cicileo. Of all the aspects of my so-called “dolce vita,” this is one thing that is unquestionably picture-perfect. If you were to take a second to imagine living on a narrow little Italian street, complete with green wooden [...]
Ikea is a dirty rotten liar
Posted in regular, year 3 on Friday 18 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1) couch which is cat proof with replaceable cushion covers, but which might be too big for the apartment, or
2) couch which would fit well in the apartment, but which we would have to carry whole up two flights of stairs and which happens to be the one sofa for which Ikea doesn’t sell any [...]
unfinished projects and Bolognese (not the pasta)
Posted in 1 on Wednesday 16 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I hate starting a big new project (like organizing all my teaching photocopies and materials) and then being either interrupted or blocked from being to finish it (for instance by lack of vital paper clips and plastic sleeves) so that it’s all over your floor and you’re not quite sure what to do with it, [...]
aftermath
Posted in humorous, regular, year 3, tagged crazy cat, sick, The Bear on Monday 14 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The aftermath of yesterday’s events:
1) Apparently eating a massive lunch a week or so after finally recovering from mysterious Asian gastrointestinal virus = much suffering 12 hours later.
2) While I was suffering, the cat, either thrilled or freaked out by all the new space opened up by the repositioning of the bed, raced back and [...]
food
Posted in regular, year 3 on Sunday 13 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I did two things: helped turn my massive ceiling bed-cabinet structure back against the wall (or rather, supervised as Riccardo did it), and ate my weight in food.
A couple months after moving in, Riccardo and Natalie and I turned my bed-wardrobe around so that the back of it would block off my room from [...]
i love google maps’ street views
Posted in photographic, regular, year 3, tagged apartment, google maps, old ruin-thing, via cencetti, via parigi on Monday 7 September, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Okay, I finally found my apartment on Google Maps street view – the street still isn’t registered, but you can see the condominium as it was under construction, a few months ago I’d guess, but not too many because it’s clearly spring or summer in the photo. Our condominium is the one pictured when the [...]
two years, and a new apartment!
Posted in descriptive, reflective, regular, year 3, tagged anniversary, apartment, apartment-hunting, existential questions on Friday 4 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As of a few days ago – August 28 – I have been in Italy for exactly two years. This time of year in Bologna brings back strong memories. There are both good ones, such as Jess and Sean’s visit after I had just gotten here, and the whole process of discovery that Julia and [...]
