"You may have the universe if I may have Italy" - Giuseppe Verdi

I am in a daze. The result of wasting the day away with Erasmus Darwin poetry.

And glancing through memories.

We shall feast on fruit and chocolate and be merry!

Yes this magnificent fruit stand really exists!! And it is open until 3 in the morning.Which is perfect for us during exam-month.
And yes my Italian friends are craaazies :) I love them.

Curiouser and curiouser!

"Who are YOU?" said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, "I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."
(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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"Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
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"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
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Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
(Through the Looking Glass)

And the obsession continues...

Dose di rosa - Dose of pink

My hair has officially been chalked.

“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
 

Hopped off my bike and snapped this last Sunday in the Villa Borghese.

My favorite place in Rome, St. Peter's Square, is pink sometimes too.

Train windows

It's hard to have a bad day when your morning commute has this view...

The Joys of Italian Babysitting: Ep.1

So tonight, after frying an egg for little Giulia,
she informed me in italian that on a scale of 1 to 10, I get a ZERO.

I could not stop laughing which she also could not understand.

;)

Let me just say I love Italian children.
They are by far the cutest, and when they speak in their little squeeky voices,
it's impossible to be mad at them regardless of what they've done!
The parents of these girls don't know it but honestly I am a terrible babysitter,
Because they are just so cuuute. I cannot discipline.
I cannot be my normal nazi-self like I am with other kids.

Alone we don't make sense

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain multitudes."
- Walt Whitman

 

Just a phase

So I'm going through a phase this week
I do this
I go through a week or a few days of being absolutely obsessed with something
and then I come out of it and become my normal self again.

Right now I'm obsessed with modern philosophy
You know
Marx, Hegel, Kant, Occam
Just the reeeally really crazy ones.
There ideas are so far from what is rational to me, that it's fascinating.
I blame my awesome Storia della Filosofia professor.

Does this happen to you?

Maybe all the Italian lemoncello is having it's effect on me at last.

I knew it was just a matter of time.

Blue People

Did you know there really are people with blue pigmented skin?
Like the "blue-skinned people of Kentucky"  ...
I think we look lovely in blue.
It might go nicely with my pink hair.