Sunday, April 12, 2009

pity me

I was all feeling depressed and mopey last night for some reason, and it only got worse this morning, when I was listening to Kiri Te Kanawa sing "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi, which is used about halfway through the clip from Room With a View below, which happens to be one of my favorite scenes from that movie, which happens to be based on one of my favorite books, when I realized, mouth flapping open like a fish:
I'm going to be living ...there. THERE. In about a month, I'm going to be LIVING THERE (there being Florence).

I mean, URGH. How depressing! I'm going to have to deal with eyesores like:and
and
and, worst of all:

Poor me!



...Uh, rest assured that I'm elated and that I'm just trying not to gloat too much. (Okay, that last statement was a lie. But you know what, I haven't been on a decent vacation in YEARS, and I deserve one.) I'm excited and terrified--I don't speak Italian, and did I mention I'm sharing an apartment with 6 other people who are in my graduate program? ... I just can't wrap my head around it. Awesome. One of my many goals is to return with a decent salami. Mmmmm.

And sorry, no, there is no extra room in my backpack for an extra person. Though if you send me your post address, I'll mail you a gloating postcard.

2 comments:

Karin said...

Yes, poor poor you. Can I be poor like you?

Michael5000 said...

You have my post address. I would like a double order of gloating postcard, please!

I was going to end that paragraph with "You lucky bitch" but you don't really know me well enough so that I could do that and you would automatically be all, like, "oh, ha ha, that's an affectionate ironic 'bitch' from a guy who's really very enlightened and highly sensitive to women's issues," and you might be all like, "what the fuck, who the hell does he think he is calling me a bitch, I'll BURN IN HELL before I'll send HIM a gloating postcard," so I decided not to. FYI.