I PROMISE I’ll post pictures soon…ish. I’ve taken some, I just need to post them. We keep changing things around, so it already looks a bit different. So they won’t be quite “before” pictures, but more like, “not before before, in the middle, after we moved in and after we finished buying all the furniture.” [...]
Posts Tagged ‘apartment’
update
Posted in regular, year 3, tagged apartment, cat, work on Friday 16 October, 2009 | 1 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 [...]
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 [...]
she lives, maybe
Posted in regular, year 2, tagged apartment, friends, work on Wednesday 8 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So it’s been a while. But I have plenty of good excuses! We’ve only JUST managed to get internet in our apartment, which means no more trucking to the internet cafè, and plus, we were in a pretty sticky situation for a while regarding our apartment contract, and Natalie’s not having a legitimate <i>codice fiscale</i>, [...]
The Great Apartment Hunt
Posted in descriptive, humorous, regular, year 2, tagged apartment, apartment-hunting on Saturday 13 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(Warning: this was five single-spaced pages in Microsoft Word) The last few days of apartment hunting have been at once so surreal, nerve-wracking, hilarious, and dismaying that I don’t even know where to start. I suppose I’ll start with our first real failed attempt… The One with the Guy from Kosovo I’ll admit that [...]
on basil plants, children, and homeless dogs
Posted in autumn, reflective, regular, year 1, tagged apartment, basil plant, Bologna, children, firsts, homeless, puppies, roommates on Tuesday 2 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Another landmark—we have officially kept our basil plant alive for one whole month. Not just alive, but thriving. His name is Lucius. Not quite as nice as a cat, but he’ll do. In other news, Emily has returned to us from Florence and we’ve moved into our new apartment! It’s lovely—spacious and airy, with lots [...]
not homeless!
Posted in autumn, regular, year 1, tagged apartment, firsts, joy, work on Saturday 22 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Everything has continued to fall together in a pleasing sort of way this last week. Julia has now taught three lessons. I went to my first job meeting sort of thing. I met with Grazia (I think that’s her name?), one of the two people who run it. She speaks very rapid Italian, and it [...]
