I've been to Georgia on a fast train

[fellmama]

Well.

I'm back.

Italy was lovely. We spent a few days in La Spezia/the Cinqueterre, drove to Verona and spent a week there, drove up through Cortina and Bolzano, then returned to Malpensa and Milan. For any further details, you'll have to corner me in person. Suffice it to say that doing grappa shots with my parents was extremely bizarre.

I had fun, but I really missed Moscow/Walla Walla and everyone contained therein. (And you all know who you are. And if you're not contained in the Moscow/Walla Walla subset, you fit under the lj blanket. So there.)

I spent today with the charming zoing--going to the grocery store is so much more fun with a crazy person. Going to see Harry Potter tonight . . . ooh fun.

(Props to benefitz and gordonjuan for the music. You are . . . the wind beneath my wings.)

Comments

[colvincd.livejournal.com]

I just got your postcard. I love it!

PS: The EMP is great.

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Like I said, I thought that one was appropriate.

Ahh...

[lacrossestar05.livejournal.com]

What's up homie? My last day of school! Grappa shots... that really tasted nasty. It smelled like nail polish remover... yummy. I'll tell Jack to allow you to comment on his lj. And yes, tidal is the shit

[rootlesscosmo.livejournal.com]

Just got your postcard from Verona--thanks! That's an interesting itinerary... I was in a local Italian deli a few months ago when a young woman Italian tourist stopped in for a chat with the staff, in the course of which she told them she was from Bolzano. After she left one of the guys referred to her home town as "mangialasino," literally "eat the donkey"--the place where the road gets so steep that you might just as well eat the pack animals, 'cause they can't go any further. I had heard "scaricalasino," "unload the donkey," but not this one.

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

I believe it. We actually stayed in one hotel because we were too scared to drive back down the road.

[rootlesscosmo.livejournal.com]

Is "whistling shrimp" by any chance a reference to Khrushchev? I recall he was reputed to favor the phrase "A shrimp will whistle on the mountaintop before"--some impossibility or other.

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

Heh. *looks embarrassed* It's a reference to a Leo Kottke song called "When Shrimps Learn to Whistle." Doot doot doo.

[parksdh.livejournal.com]

Leo Kottke is never something you have to be embarassed over!

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

But he thought I was SMART . . . and I'm not.

[not-a-goth.livejournal.com]

As a new student at Whitman College this fall, I decided we needed an online gathering place, so I created:

whitties

Pass the word to any Whitman students, alums or anyone interested in Whitman!

Thanks,
Emily

found it yet?

[urbanwhittie.livejournal.com]

yeah, I've started an account for Australia. but then I discovered the Whitman community. Oh well, I figure that as long as I don't post too much too often that I'll be fine.
Thanks for the post card! Oh and by the way, the music on in my room right now? T-tones.

[jack921.livejournal.com]

You moron. Malpensa is not a city..it's the name of the airport, and we didn't stay there.