Helllooooooo!  I'm very jetlagged and am using a new laptop so if this entry is senseless or more senseless than they usually are, I apologize.  Our trip was a trip.  Grace and I flew Aer Lingus and GP flew Air France as our tickets were the beginning of a two way back to the states in June and his was the end of a two way back to Italy.  On our flight I had a young Irish woman, a redhead in funky hippie clothes,  who after take-off immediately ordered two Bloody Marys and 3 bottles of wine.  Within a short time she was crying, followed by the meal that she barely touched, (can't blame her there), a film that she glared at while drinking the wine directly from the mini bottles and soon after she fell asleep.  There was a baby a few seats away from us that began screaming towards the end of the flight.  I imagine his ears hurt from the pressure.  After he'd been carrying on for about a half an hour at a level of sound that could puncture an eardrum, I told Grace that if she was ever in a situation where she was tempted to have unprotected sex, to think about that moment.  The drunken sleeping girl beside me sat up straight and laughed.  She said it was the best line she'd ever heard.  I thought she was dead.

We got into Milan late morning, met GP at the car rental desk, drove 2 hours home, dropped off Grace and our luggage, took the rental car back into the city with me following in my car, drove an hour out of the city to pick up GP's new car at the dealership then drove all the way back here again.  We got in at 6ish.  I ate a plum and some toast and crashed at 7:30.

This morning we started school where it looks as though I'll be working full time but this school, being run as it is by Italians or sudo-Italians, doesn't know exactly what I'll be doing.  I was in the library again today to help out the new librarian but I'd like to be teaching literacy so I'm promoting myself to all those who could possibly use my services.

I am now considering bed though it's only 7:32.

xxoo me