if looks could kill - camera obscura

i never wrote about paris. and now it is too far gone to do properly. instead. just an insert from an email.

"hi grandma,

Paris was amazing.  I knew it was supposed to be beautiful but I was still
very surprised.  We had gorgeous (albiet freezing) weather and the sky
always looked liked watercolor to me. i really enjoyed the louve (although
i was lost the whole time, that place is like a maze!) and the notre dame.
We were lucky enough to be at the Notre Dame during a mass for All Saints
Day, which was lovely: so many candles and beautiful choral music.

Ferrara is starting to get decorated for christmas; window displays are
festive and christmas lights are hung across the major shopping streets.
today i went to the craft market and the town square smelt like roasted
chestnuts and sweets (they have a huge candy vender every sunday).  it all
felt so wintery and european! -- a perfect afternoon."

lovely lovely lovely.

suddenly time is getting short. i am alternately homesick and prematurely nostalgic
for Ferrara days.

brendan came for a week.  picked up him up in bologna on a cold wintery morning.  two
days in florence (the duomo. palazzo pitti. the david. palazzo vecchio. etc.)  thanksgiving
dinner in the apartment.  venice during the La Festa Della Salute.  candles and singing.
streets filled with candy and balloon venders.  fried dough and cotton candy.  a tour
of ferrara. visit to my favorite cathedral.  the sunday food market and un giro on the old
city walls.  the whole time was so surreal.  lost it a bit at the airport.  i know i will
see him in a month. but i hated standing there watching him go through the security line.
seeing someone you love go somewhere you can't follow is just the worst feeling.

better now.

finally working! project! urbanistica! allestimento! i. missed. work. 

more to come.

ps. discovery: http://www.last.fm/listen/
amazing!

everything is prettier in paris- 2

everything is prettier in paris.

ti prendo e ti porto via - vasco rossi

i feel like i haven't written in years. and so much has been going on. i feel a bit as though my attention span has been waning. paris! switzerland! italian blues jam sessions! but i don't want to write about anything until i feel like it.

today i loved italy. i loved ferrara. worked on project for a couple hours with lau and manon. manon and i made some pasta soup for lunch and ate some cookies with espresso. chatted a bit about the universal overworked architecture student life. and then packed up and biked into town. there was a craft/food/ candy stand fair set up so we parked our bikes and wandered a bit. the air is finally crisp and wintery, christmas lights are strung across via mazzini and it smelled like sweets and roasted chestnuts. couples waked their baby prams and old men held their fragile wives' elbows. it was beautiful and i could think was. i cannot believe that i am here right now. i didn't buy anything but the market will be there next sunday. so we shopped a bit and i tried on my first pair of boots. no luck. but we are heading to bologna tomorrow after her class so there is still hope.

going to (finally) officially enroll in school/classes. sigh. why are we three so bootleg?

ps. finally found some italian music i can sing to. and had an italian dinner with actual italian friends. how exciting.