congrats are in order.

Our little Natalie has been accepted to ETH University in Zurich.

Even though we will miss her so much, I hope her master studies create her into a incredibly balanced architect :)

my building.

I'm so tired of character building.

And I'm so tired of trying to understand others.

And I also just want to know that he's okay.

please.

be strong.

still sick.

But definitely on the road to recovery.

I opened my email just like any typical morning, but this morning it contained a message with information nobody could ever be prepared for.

I wish I could feel something other than frozen and numb.

back from the dead

I've spent three days in bed. Thanks to Mina's amazing new DVD collection I've watched: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Taken, Revolutionary Road, The Reader, Deception, The Other Boleyn Girl, Seven Pounds, among others that I'm pretty sure I just can't remember anymore. The Reader I adored, Benjamin Button was fab. The others I enjoyed although I must say I am slightly getting sick of the typical Hollywood film trying to be a-typical. I feel like they've done all these films before... It could just be the fever talking.
The glands in my neck are still incredibly swollen, but I'm back to work today. I've also stopped enjoying cigarettes. I crave them. I light one, taste it, am repulsed by it, throw it away. I have bought myself a mass amount of sweets this morning in order to hopefully munch them instead of stand at the door of the school with a cigarette. God this is hard. I think this is the second time I've ever tried to quit smoking and the first time I think I tried for a good hour or two and then gave up.
They also changed my hours at work and I am not pleased at all. Just wait until I give them the big 'fuck you' they deserve... wait for it... wait for it...

Taking care of myself and not going out everynight to commence:

NOW.

keep on troopin'

My parents are in town and I've been going to birthday bashes. I ate my weight in steak yesterday at lunch with my father - rare rare rare. I never ate steak before coming here. They make the best steak in the world. Served almost raw with olive oil. Thinking about it makes my mouth water... Tonight I'm having dinner with the folks at a restaurant in the palace of a famous Florentine family, Antinori. I've never been before, but it's supposed to be fab! Then Cri and Natalie and I have decided to dress up as 'figo' as possible and hit the town.