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My, how time flies. We haven’t gone this long between posts in over a year, as we see it.

Inter alia, we have been insanely busy (for us) with an enormous project at work, have had plans for every weekend for a month, and have taken a vacation to Rome (Italia, that is). So the past 40 or so days looks a little bit like this: work work WORK work work weekend plans work work WORK work work weekend plans work work WORK work work weekend plans work work WORK work work wedding work car bus tiny plane big plane Paris small train taxi lunch appointment dinner appointment medium plane Rome meet eat car eat see walk bus walk sun sun sun eat bus wedding eat car reception (eat eat meet dance) car bus walk walk see eat buy buy eat eat walk medium plane Atlanta small plane Newark bus cab home work work rest rest work.

The extended remix would be more like : work work WORK work work weekend plans work work WORK work work weekend plans work work WORK work work weekend plans work work WORK work work SO’s friend’s wedding and visit to our dad work fly to Boston fly to Paris on Air France with good food have lunch with friends in Paris realize that we’ve been awake for over 24 hours and collapse for 30 minutes dinner with family friend of SO bed down at midnight (since in Paris in the summer you eat at 9pm) fly to Rome in the morning meet family the SO was an au pair for 8 years ago eat fabulous Italian food hair-raising car ride to a funk/r’n’b concert hair-raising car ride home sleep tourist day (eat food eat ice cream see ruins get too much sun) sleep three busses to Roman wedding eat fabulous Italian food at restaurant sleep hair-raising car ride in the country to wedding reception eat fabulous Italian food drink ordinary but excellent Italian wine dance dance dance less hair-raising car ride back sleep tourist day (more food more ice cream more ruins more sun) sleep shopping for friends and family and selves day pack endless flight on Delta to Atlanta with inedible food easy flight to NYC on Delta bus to Manhattan cab to Brooklyn four disorienting days pick up SO at airport.

Some notes for future posts: Franco Battiato, Daniele Silvestri, Giovanotte, Ligabue; leftist Italians and French are as disappointed in their countries and ours as we are in ours and theirs; Italian soccer team stores win hands-down over New York baseball team stores; the Colosseum charges too much; small sausage and cheese shops still show their prices in Lire; American Express in Paris is great, but in Rome it fails its members; as mentioned before, if you are flying to Europe, take Alitalia or Air France (we can’t speak for other countries’ airlines) and maybe pay more rather than suffer in an American company’s planes.