Listening: www.soulfulclassics.com – Classic R&B internet radio Reading: The Time Traveler’s Wife So, I had to schedule an appointment with a doctor, who in October told me that I should schedule it in March-April. He gave me a sheet of paper with my test results and at the top, a telephone number for the department. [...]
Entries from April 2006
Italian Health Care System, part 87
April 27th, 2006 · 4 Comments
Tags: Bureaucracy · Italy
Trenitalia owns my first-born child
April 25th, 2006 · No Comments
I can’t believe it’s been that long since I posted. That was, of course, the last night before a wave of visitors arrived! Bringing with them, of course, lots of treats and gifts, but visitors nonetheless. You don’t realize how much work it is traveling until you start doing it again. In the last eleven [...]
Can I get paid for this?
April 13th, 2006 · 5 Comments
Disturbing: McD’s MORE fatty in the US? Finally, we’ve found the source of our obesity! A new ADDICTIVE game: Avocadolite Farm Hustle (Thanks Yasmina!) So, I’m coming up on my 5-month mesiversary (anniversary just doesn’t work for me) here at my job with the advertising agency. In this time, I have done many many important [...]
Tags: Advertising · Culture · Italy · Work
Saying goodbye to Berlusconi?
April 7th, 2006 · 5 Comments
YOU decide who will win: Play the Prodi-Berlusconi Punchout game I only want your, er, vote: Berlusconi talks politics with sex chat girls Elections in Italy start Sunday, and today is the last day that the candidates can campaign. Tomorrow is a “reflection day” so that the voters can make their choices in relative silence. [...]
Tags: Italy
Spring Cleaning!
April 3rd, 2006 · 3 Comments
$24 for 10.5/300g of Caffarel eggs?? Yuppies! (Compare to €2.50-3.00 per 100g here) Finally I can escape ridicule with the American’s Guide to Speaking British After over a year of living in our apartment, this weekend I actually domesticated it a bit more, and made a “linen closet” to hold all our towels and sheets. [...]






