Summer?
Moscow doesn't appear to be having much summer weather yet. It's been raining the last couple days. Last week it was hot for a few days, but before that it has been wet and cool ever since I got back from Italy. What's going on? I wanna go swimming! I guess we probably need the rain, so I can't complain...
Life hasn't been too thrilling lately. I've just been working and moving in to the new place. We're pretty much settled in now. I've been looking for jobs and recently had a phone interview with
creative Commons in San Francisco. I haven't heard anything yet, but the interview went well. San Fran would be a great place to get more invovled in activism, since there are so many great organizations there (not to mention cool design firms!). But it's also the most expensive place in the country to live. So we'll see what happens...
Work hasn't been too thrilling either. I work part time at IdahoSTARS and I'm working on several freelance projects right now, one for Operation: Military Kids (a web site), one for my friend Leonard (a portfolio, business cards, etc.), and soon I will start redesigning the Co-op's web site. I currently volunteer to design part of the newsletter. So I'm keeping busy. Hopefully I can find a job soon so I know what I'll be doing. It's pretty up in the air right now, but it's kind of nice in a way to have no plans whatsoever. Not like me, but fun nonetheless.
Well, time to go. Look for new portfolio pages soon!
Tuscany, Pisa, and Venice, oh my!
We have been all over Italy in the last few days, from South to North and now East to West. Today we arrived in Montecatini in the Tuscany region, after visiting Pisa earlier today. I made sure to get pictures of the leaning tower, but we didn't have too much time there.
Yesterday we spent the day in Venice, which was a very unique place with canals instead of streets and boats instead of cars. The canals are pretty dirty, and the streets are very narrow and easy to get lost in. The night before we went on a boat ride to the island of Burano in the Venice lagoon. All the houses were different bright colors, and we had an excellent dinner. Many of the large buildings and towers in Venice are leaning or uneven, because it was built on logs on a sandy bottom. It's like no other place on earth, though. We didn't get to do a Gondola ride, because they're very expensive, so I guess I'll have an excuse to come back someday!
Italy is bellissimo! We have been covering a lot of countryside along the way, and getting to a new city almost every other day. The next stop is Sienna on the way to Rome, where we will finish up our trip. Tomorrow we get to go to Florence where I will be going to the Ufizzi gallery, the most famous collection of Italian Renaissance art. We went to the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice yesterday, which was awesome and had modern artists like Dali, Picasso, and Pollock. So I'm feeling very cultured! I'm also becoming quite addicted to gelato, it is way better than ice cream, I sure will miss it!
Ciao!
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