Friday

I've been in the computer lab for the last two hours trying to plan out my weekend. It's becoming increasingly frustrating, trying to find a place to stay in la spezia. At this point I'm ready to say fuck it and find a discoteca to go to tonight.

And I need to go out. I haven't been able to stay up past 10 for the last three nights, and the lonely apartment is starting to get to me. My roomates moved in yesterday, a Portland guy named Alec and two guys from Illinois, Eben and Jimmy. Nice enough guys, so far we get along rather well.

I bought a card reader for my camera, and I can now power up my laptop. Things are happening! The mini-ipod boombox I brought has been a lifesaver with the apartment, and I love gellato. Gellato is like the national anti-depressant of Italy.

Homesick?

Have some gellato.

Too hot outside?

Ice cold gellato.

Want some gellato?

If I have to tell you...

Just scored a hostel for tomorrow night, staying with my friend Erin in La Spazza tomorrow and Sunday and hiking through Cinque Terre, a seaside/mountainous area with paths connecting five villiages. I'm pretty excited, since this is the first time I'm getting out of Rome. Going to do a discoteca surf tonight and see if I can't get into some trouble before I have to get on the train tomorrow.

I'm missing my boys terribly, I had a dream last night with Beep in it. He was seranading a very small castle with operatic meows on a beach. He was the same size, but the castle was tiny, and the sun was setting in the background. My dreams have been insane here, probably because I haven't managed an entire night of sleep once yet. I have to leave my windows open to deal with the 85 degree evenings (since I have no AC) and at around 5:30 in the morning these birds wake up that make the most horrific sounds I've ever heard. I warned my roomates on their first night here, and the next morning Eben came into the kitchen cursing at the birds and throwing clothespins from our drying rack at them.

Okay, I've been sitting in this computer lab for 3 hours now writing down addresses and scheduling the hostel and train ticket. I'm out.

-Sean