Lucca (Italy), afternoon
I think I got some intestinal virus....I am sooooooooooo sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Relaxing day
Lucca (Italy), evening
I went to the beach today. In a WWF oasis near by. It was wonderful. A perfect day to just lay down and read a book. After so long time spent just in front of my computer or being stressed for work, for my personal situation, or from whatever other thing, today I just spent hours lying down and reading. And then walking on the beach. The sun, the sea. I enjoyed it. Everything. And for a few hours I was without my ghosts, without continuously thinking about the past and the future, without being worried about something.
As soon as I got back, my ghosts came back and I felt and feel lost again.
I went to the beach today. In a WWF oasis near by. It was wonderful. A perfect day to just lay down and read a book. After so long time spent just in front of my computer or being stressed for work, for my personal situation, or from whatever other thing, today I just spent hours lying down and reading. And then walking on the beach. The sun, the sea. I enjoyed it. Everything. And for a few hours I was without my ghosts, without continuously thinking about the past and the future, without being worried about something.
As soon as I got back, my ghosts came back and I felt and feel lost again.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
The body shop
Lucca (Italy), evening
I like the Body shop products. I like their philosophy and I absolutely love their olive shampoo and conditioner. The only little problem is that finding The Body Shop shops here in Tuscany seems a bit of a challenge. The ones in Lucca and Pisa have been closed. Apparently it is not too popular here. I found that there is a small one in Florence (I guess there are enough tourists there to buy their products). Anyway, today I just felt like shopping at the Body Shop. So, I jumped into the train and I went to Florence, just to go to the Body Shop. I enjoyed it. It is my relaxing therapy. Obviously, I got the shampoo, the conditioner and the shower gel of the white musk. Then they also gave me a present with other small products. It was worthed to go to Florence for that. I just relaxed and enjoy it. And the weather is so beautiful here, that no matter where you are, it is just too nice to be outside.
On the way back, I walked on the wall to get back home and I saw a beautiful fat gecko :-)
I like the Body shop products. I like their philosophy and I absolutely love their olive shampoo and conditioner. The only little problem is that finding The Body Shop shops here in Tuscany seems a bit of a challenge. The ones in Lucca and Pisa have been closed. Apparently it is not too popular here. I found that there is a small one in Florence (I guess there are enough tourists there to buy their products). Anyway, today I just felt like shopping at the Body Shop. So, I jumped into the train and I went to Florence, just to go to the Body Shop. I enjoyed it. It is my relaxing therapy. Obviously, I got the shampoo, the conditioner and the shower gel of the white musk. Then they also gave me a present with other small products. It was worthed to go to Florence for that. I just relaxed and enjoy it. And the weather is so beautiful here, that no matter where you are, it is just too nice to be outside.
On the way back, I walked on the wall to get back home and I saw a beautiful fat gecko :-)
Friday, April 25, 2008
evening
Lucca (Italy), morning
Yesterday evening I went on the walls to rollerblade a bit. It was so cool. Today I feel my muscles, especially the ones of the butt.....any chance that I am going to get a Brazilian butt :-)?
Yesterday evening I went on the walls to rollerblade a bit. It was so cool. Today I feel my muscles, especially the ones of the butt.....any chance that I am going to get a Brazilian butt :-)?
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Waiting!
Lucca (Italy), afternoon
Finally, at the end of May, the movie of Sex and the City will be in the movie theaters! I was planning to go to the USA just to see it as soon as it comes out and in original language. Unfortunately, since I have to be on May 31 in France, I cannot do it. The movie is coming out on May 30. It may sound stupid, but I am excited about it.
Check this out:
http://www.sexandthecitymovie.com/
Finally, at the end of May, the movie of Sex and the City will be in the movie theaters! I was planning to go to the USA just to see it as soon as it comes out and in original language. Unfortunately, since I have to be on May 31 in France, I cannot do it. The movie is coming out on May 30. It may sound stupid, but I am excited about it.
Check this out:
http://www.sexandthecitymovie.com/
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
It's incredible
Lucca (Italy), evening
My English is probably bad today. I spent the last 2 hours writing emails in French. I guess I will need to take a course to refresh my knowledge of French. One thing is reading and understanding it, another thing is to think in French and write it. I think in English or maybe in Spanish or in Italian, but not in French, so every time I have to translate what I want to say from a different language.
But anyway. It is not about this that I wanted to write. But about the fact that often one little event can definitively change the course of our life and our present and future. One little event can often make me jump of joy or fall into deep sadness. Now, I am in the second mood. I feel stupid and I think that sometimes we make our life much more complicated that it could be. We are just not ready to take the occasions that are offered to us. We don't "carpe diem".
My English is probably bad today. I spent the last 2 hours writing emails in French. I guess I will need to take a course to refresh my knowledge of French. One thing is reading and understanding it, another thing is to think in French and write it. I think in English or maybe in Spanish or in Italian, but not in French, so every time I have to translate what I want to say from a different language.
But anyway. It is not about this that I wanted to write. But about the fact that often one little event can definitively change the course of our life and our present and future. One little event can often make me jump of joy or fall into deep sadness. Now, I am in the second mood. I feel stupid and I think that sometimes we make our life much more complicated that it could be. We are just not ready to take the occasions that are offered to us. We don't "carpe diem".
Saturday, April 12, 2008
good news!
Italy, morning
Terrible weather here today. But yesterday afternoon I got a good news, so I am happy!
I got one year grant to work as a postdoc in France. I will start in June!!!!! Really happy about it.
Terrible weather here today. But yesterday afternoon I got a good news, so I am happy!
I got one year grant to work as a postdoc in France. I will start in June!!!!! Really happy about it.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Britney Spears
Italy, lunch time
I feel like I miss to know how a friend is doing. The thing is, in the USA, whatever magazine I was opening/reading/giving a look at contained a picture, a page or an article about Britney Spears. And this for the entire year and half I was there. I was always looking at magazines while I was at the gym on the step or the cyclette. I was also looking at them at the supermarket. So basically, I could get updated about Britney Spears' life and ups and downs minimum once a week. I also managed to get different sources of information, since at the gym, as well as the supermarket, there were always different magazines. So, I knew when she lost her kids, when she shaved her head and so on. I got so familiar with her life and disgraces that even involuntarily I felt like hoping that she would get better. And American magazines are so good in making you feel part of famous people' life. They give you so many details about everything and pictures and opinions. You just cannot avoid to know everything about them. So, at the end, you get attached to them and start to follow their life even more.....
Now, after I came back to Italy, I miss all this. I wonder how she is doing. I should probably check that out on the web :-)
I feel like I miss to know how a friend is doing. The thing is, in the USA, whatever magazine I was opening/reading/giving a look at contained a picture, a page or an article about Britney Spears. And this for the entire year and half I was there. I was always looking at magazines while I was at the gym on the step or the cyclette. I was also looking at them at the supermarket. So basically, I could get updated about Britney Spears' life and ups and downs minimum once a week. I also managed to get different sources of information, since at the gym, as well as the supermarket, there were always different magazines. So, I knew when she lost her kids, when she shaved her head and so on. I got so familiar with her life and disgraces that even involuntarily I felt like hoping that she would get better. And American magazines are so good in making you feel part of famous people' life. They give you so many details about everything and pictures and opinions. You just cannot avoid to know everything about them. So, at the end, you get attached to them and start to follow their life even more.....
Now, after I came back to Italy, I miss all this. I wonder how she is doing. I should probably check that out on the web :-)
Friday, April 4, 2008
a lot of frustration
Lucca (Italy), afternoon
I have to say that what I will write it is quite depressing. So, if you are looking for a funny blog, this is not the one.
Nothing new. Absolutely nothing new happened. Not good emails, not nice emails or messages either. Nothing. And some days in which the only thing to do is to sit and wait are more difficult than others.
In the last years I invested all my energies in my work and in my relationship and now in neither my working or private life anything is going the way I want. And I invested a lot in both, all myself.
And I am scared about the future, I am scared about not getting grants to keep working on what I like or in places I would like to live, I am scared of not being able to have a relationship that makes both of the people involved happy. I am scared, I am just scared about the future. I fall already a lot of times in my life and all the time I got up on my feet again. But now this insecurity, this struggling for everything, having nothing to hang on, some days it is just too much to have the energy or the desire to do anything. And I don't see the end of this.
I have to say that what I will write it is quite depressing. So, if you are looking for a funny blog, this is not the one.
Nothing new. Absolutely nothing new happened. Not good emails, not nice emails or messages either. Nothing. And some days in which the only thing to do is to sit and wait are more difficult than others.
In the last years I invested all my energies in my work and in my relationship and now in neither my working or private life anything is going the way I want. And I invested a lot in both, all myself.
And I am scared about the future, I am scared about not getting grants to keep working on what I like or in places I would like to live, I am scared of not being able to have a relationship that makes both of the people involved happy. I am scared, I am just scared about the future. I fall already a lot of times in my life and all the time I got up on my feet again. But now this insecurity, this struggling for everything, having nothing to hang on, some days it is just too much to have the energy or the desire to do anything. And I don't see the end of this.
weird things
Lucca (Italy), morning
This morning, like every morning, I was looking at the job advs. on the blog of the biodiversity and conservation biology jobs and I found someone who left a message under one of these job advs...... The message was about her (I guess this person is a she according to the topic she wrote about) blog. The blog contains only one blog, about cellulite. I have to admit that even if I am a bit fan of anything concerning how to remove forever my cellulite, not even me would have thought of having a blog about it.......People are really weird....
http://eliminando-a-celulite.blogspot.com/
This morning, like every morning, I was looking at the job advs. on the blog of the biodiversity and conservation biology jobs and I found someone who left a message under one of these job advs...... The message was about her (I guess this person is a she according to the topic she wrote about) blog. The blog contains only one blog, about cellulite. I have to admit that even if I am a bit fan of anything concerning how to remove forever my cellulite, not even me would have thought of having a blog about it.......People are really weird....
http://eliminando-a-celulite.blogspot.com/
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