few thoughts 102208

1. I feel the cold morning, that's good but along with that I'm now on annual Thera-Flu diet all over again...this year, it's little earlier than usual. Nevertheless, cold morning is definitely appreciated. Also, cold morning means...time to look for sweaters. Benetton and Zara, watch out.
   
2. I FOUND A GYM! whoo-hoo!
   
3. Ventaglio and Suppli are my favorite Italian words...they are little snacks but they are so good, I even like them names...no, I won't name my children Ventaglio nor Suppli.
   
4. 2 more days until my Italian classes to be over. I don't know what to feel about that, honestly...I wish to have the Italian classes little longer because I think 2 1/2 weeks of learning of foreign language is little ridiculous. Although our teacher, Michela, was little too aggressive at times, I will miss that lady. I won't miss waking up early in the morning...oh wait, I always wake up early in the morning...
5. I've been running in the morning even though my recent cold has been put me on the bed last couple days. I've never ran on the street, only on the treadmill, and it's quite different. I've picked up on running couple years back and ever since then I try to do it ever so often because running always provided me a fountain of ideas that seems to pop up every now and then. It's sort of strange how it works because your body is keeps on moving but it really feels like your mind is meditating and especially in this new city, I really feel the new sense of inspiration coming blasting through me, it's quite lovely. Just having to enjoy a quite Rome is also a plus, too. Had I brought my ipod shuffle, it could've been tad bit better but running laps of Piazza Navona and along the river of Trastaverie are to die for. Really.
   
6. I went to Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition yesterday and it was purely awesome. Let's leave it at that because if I start to talk about it, it will take more than weeks. I am going back to that exhibition couple more times before my departure, for sure. Yes, I love him that much and he is that good. Inspirations!!!!
   
7. If you can't connect with people, no one will connect to you. Not because they hate you but because they have no idea what you are going through. I want to connect with people because my existence won't mean a thing if there's no connection between me and this world. No 'art world', no 'real world', no 'whatever world' but just world around me. I don't want to think about how other people going to see me as because I will be as sincere and warm as possible since that's just who I am.