Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Saturday, December 19th, 2009
pinkpixies7	9:00p	I love my job even when they fuck me in a less then tasty manner. I am -not- loving that I am scheduled to work the weekend of our first big winter storm in several seasons. True I hate the cold but I love to play in the snow! Animals need Faith lovin' and no amount of complaining will change it. I made it from Hyattsville to Bethesda and back. NIH was putting weekend staff in hotels but I needed to get home and empty my Bichon. Managed to make it BACK to Hyattsville to find that the roads surrounding my house were closed. I'm new to the area and didn't know any open alternative routes so I got directions from a cop. It lead my up a steep hill which was too much for my Civic and I am now parked on the wrong side of the road in a snow bank. A co worker is taking me in tomorrow. Lord knows the monkeys need Faith Lovin' Current Mood: sleepy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
pinkpixies7	10:20p	Going back on Italy pics is amusing! Church, church, church, museum, museum, drunk photos, church, museum, museum, museum, drunk photos, and so on. My last night in Italy was a special one. I was greeted with a warm hug by Lucas who was bummed out about a bad review he received on hostel world. The place was quite the shit hole judging by the reviews prior to his arrival and total take over. The man is working really hard to turn it around and was promised a raise when the reviews go up (which they had) but these bitches from California may have set him back. They claimed the room smelled too much of cleaning product....a CLEAN hostel? I fail to see how he deserved a 40%. I cheered him up by telling him he was a god in Florence which is true seeing as several people knew who he was though most hadn't stayed there. He asked if I was up for going out for my last night which in my mind was mandatory even if there is all of two open bars in that city. I was feeling socially removed with the crowd that evening. A lot of young people and no real common interest to speak of. I would have been happy reading a book but Lucas didn't want me to feel left out staying attentive to me and remained my sidekick when we all went out. We chatted about our travels and how he fell in love with an Aussie and hopes to move down there at some point. He told me he plans to run the place until February and move on with his travels with Australia being the final stop. I wish him all the best. We walked back and shared a few zombie clips on youtube before a two hour sleep. I didn't have a travel alarm clock and needed to catch the 4:30 AM bus to the airport so he was kind enough so he set his personal alarm and quietly gathered me from my dorm to send me off with snack cakes and goodbye hugs. I realized at goodbye that I had developed a crush on him. I never allow myself to recognize my feelings until it's too late.....not that anything would have ever happened. I'm home now and back at work in the morning. How I hate being back. I sometimes wonder why I'm buying a house here when I would really like to backpack around Europe for a year or so and probably move there after figuring out where it is that I belong. When it comes down to it I'm just too attached to my job and couldn't stand leaving Lecter for that long. Traveling every couple of months will just have to do for now. With February comes Ireland and in May Paris. There is always something to look forward too. Pictures here Current Mood: depressed (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
pinkpixies7	6:32p	Yesterday was kept simple due to my drunken rampage the evening before. Christina and I nursed our hangovers while touring the inside of the Colliseum which is worth every bit of the 20 euro. Rome makes me sad. Its a fun city and has potential to be amazingly wonderful. Sadly it has a high theft rate and many people have little respect for their historic surroundings. Even the Colliseum isnt safe from graffiti. Her and I spent most of the morning in silence taking in the city and later seeing Planet 51 completely in Italian. It was really peaceful. The Opera was later in the evening with the man from Silver Spring. He ended up bringing some friends at the last minute which Im pretty sure was to relieve any ackwardness with going to the opera with a stranger. One of the friends was the man I made out with. Ack-----ward. I think it would have been weird for me anyway...I hate getting to know you chit chat. The performance was everything I had hoped it would be and more. It was held around the corner from the opera house inside of a small church that by American standards would be considered grand. The performers were dressed in period appropriate attire making for a lifetime memory. Italian opera in ROME! I thought about joining the Colliseum pub crawl after but was too sleepy and it was too late in the evening to find it. I stayed in the hostels living quarters watching movies until I fell asleep. Tonight is my last night in Italy. Its too soon for me to leave. Not Italy but Europe. I want to live as a backpacker but jobs, dogs, and adulthood make that impossible. I settle into living out of a suitcase and barely have time to take in a relaxing sigh before being thrown back into the grind. Im back in Venice at my original hostel ran by the oh so cool Mr Lucas. Im regretting telling him that he needs to wake me by 4 00 am. We are going out tonight so I should probably break it to him gently. Current Mood: nostalgic (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
pinkpixies7	11:11a	I went to visit Christina at her hostel last night. We got drunk. Reeeeally drunk. I made out with a guy from Canada and Im now going to the Opera tonight with some guy I randomly met from Silver Spring. Ended up passing out in Christinas room...we woke up spooning. Rome is good. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 11th, 2009
pinkpixies7	7:02p	I think I walked from one end of the city to the other today. Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Castel Sant Angelo *which offered a lovely view of Rome*. Im a bit cold, tired, and sore as I think Ive walked up and down a lifetime of stairs. Made it back to the Colliseum at sunset but it was already closed for the night. Seeing the inside will be first on the list tomorrow. Tonight....pre game drinking before going out to meet Christina at her hostel for...more drinking. w00t! (Comment on this)
pinkpixies7	11:56a	OK I didnt blog yesterday so shoot me. The hostel internet was out of order upon my return for the evening and I didnt feel like going to a call shop. Point is I made it here safely and so far my passport and cash are still comfortable in my possession. This hostel is both cool and waaaay creepy. Its in an old building that seems to be broken off into apartments. You are buzzed into the main lobby and you take one of those old cage elevators with manual doors up to the floor where we are located. Elevators like that give me the creeps. The people here are awesome but one major let down is that they ban pub crawls here. While bar hopping is fine being part of a guided pup crawl where we receive discounted or free drinks is a no no. Authorities here are well aware of the nightly happenings and usually turn a blind eye but my hostel will not have any part of them. This means if I want to sign up I need to do so on the street. The Colliseum and Spanish Steps crawls are supposed to be the largest and finding a way to sign up isnt rocket science. My friend from Venice and Florence is meeting me today so I guess we can figure it out then. Did a small amount of sight seeing yesterday but mostly my eyes were fixed on ink which I found and happiness was had. Grapes on my right foot make my latest passport stamp. We finished just in time for me to limp to the Colliseum and snap a few pics as the sun went down. Im off to make up for lost time...... (Comment on this)