3 posts tagged “italia”

i thought about the seasons today as i recall the invitation from ben and gary to see Juno with them last night.  how events and periods of the film are split into seasons.  it was only the other day when the heavy winds and strong rays of sun were drenching our vacationed bodies in ventotene.  then the coldness of the winter and being separated from boBo in parma and san diego.  followed now by a spring that has been schizophrenic yet blossoming into another eagerly anticipated warm spell.

and with this pleasantness around me, it is time for me to bid adieu.  not that i necessarily want to leave boBo, but larger plans are in store for us now and it only seems how the natural movement of events should proceed.  the apartment, as pleasant as it has been, will no longer be ours as of the 15th.  my position, again despite being a terrific experience, is gone for the time being.  but most importantly, i need to give boBo some time alone in order for him to complete his thesis.  something that i believe he will accomplish with much more exactitude once i am out from under his feet, so to speak.

i'm not going to wonder about the future and all the expectations that are in store for both of us together as well as apart.  i can only focus on the next word that i am deliberating to type on this text.  for now, that is all i can do.

i did not want to crawl from the bed because usually when i have a bout with restless sleep, the minutes seem to not exist but micro-milliseconds replace them.  that's when i hear every drop, tick, crack, breath of the overheating computer trying to download the last gig of the birds for my viewing pleasure.

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when i finally built up enough determination to look at my phone, the time was half past five.  not too bad.  if i were still in san diego or even bologna, i'd be up anyway.  still, i waited.  when the eyes did not surrender to the droop and the thoughts continued to explode and compound like the way my school loan interest is continually doing as we sit here reading this lovely blog and picture extravaganza, i awoke and began to write the list of the day.  the way some, maybe most, maybe not that many actually, start their morning.  to get something accomplished.  or to at least feel like something is being accomplished.  whatever that means.

and i quote:

i've been back from the states, or more luxuriously, not on a holiday, since the beginning of the year.  the past two months have entailed a lot of newness for me: opportunities to instruct and probably more profoundly, to learn.  to learn how to teach more effectively and to understand where my weaknesses are and where they...well, are not.

che ti ne frega

last night saw the last vestiges of the first in a series of eight-week intensive courses that i am teaching at The New Renaissance Florence Film School with the showing of the student's film EVEolution. 

today i did what i haven't been able to do in quite a extensive period of time: sleep in.  boBo still calls me "the farmer" as i do have the tendency to be up by 6:00, maybe 7:00 if i'm tired.  rising myself at 11:00, however, felt more on the level of euphoria than possibly much needed sleep.  though i must admit i did have nightmares of trying to help the students complete the editing process.  war scars?

Mercato Centrale Firenze

the intended purposes of the day were to get up and buy a guide book, in english, of budapest.  boBo and i leave tomorrow for the city divided by the danube and having no time to read up on it, i was intending to spend the day in a crash course in hungarian history.  but after an invitation to brunch by leah, i was easily persuaded.

Mercato Centrale Firenze

waffles, eggs, bacon, mimosas...yum.

around 5:00 (late, late brunch), i headed out to a few different bookstores to find the book.  not as easy as one might think.  but i've spent the remainder of the evening prepping myself for yet another culture trying to grasp that indeed i am about to head out on holiday.  the thermal baths are beckoning...

She's Got Legs.