Yankees Win!

It felt like the 1920s having to follow the Series in the "paper", but maybe the really late 1920s since in this case, the paper was online.

There is now a man in Piazza Roma every night selling fresh roasted chestnuts. He looks a lot like the guy in this photo except a lot older and more Italian..er. It feels very Olde Worlde.


"sburocratizzare" means to reduce the amount of bureaucracy. It seems like a made up word.

At lunch today, a colleague of mine asked me how my Italian lessons were coming. Without really thinking about it, I responded in Italian and proceeded to describe my latest lessons and my teachers. Although just a brief conversation, when I think about where I was at when I arrived in September I get a sneaking suspicion that I'm actually starting to learn something. My mom told me that when we lived in Switzerland years ago that my sister (who was entered in a French school for the year) didn't say a word for six months and then one day began speaking fluently. Maybe that will happen to mio. (See, it's already happening.)

Drama in the apartment this morning! The girls went to a party last night and didn't come back until 4am. They were very good about being quiet, but being hungry, they used up my Nutella and Parmesan cheese while fixing a snack. (I'm guessing in separate dishes.) Between the dirty dishes on the table and in the sink and the missing food, my panties were all in a bunch as I left for work this morning. However, by the time I got home, they had replaced everything leaving me to unbunch my panties and needing to chill out a little. Maybe a tiny bit obsessive?

Next up, my first recipe for a newly discovered Italian dish. Hi to everyone in the New World. I wonder what Eric is doing right now?