09:17pm, Sunday 19 Aug 2001
Song of the Day: Leonardo's Bride - Problematic Art of Conversation
Not much to report. 13 days to go. Still nowhere to sleep in Rome.*sigh*
Hopefully we'll be able to find somewhere soon, else it is park benches for us.
I've been reading the guidebook a fair bit.. bought Italy for Dummies and for a "dummies" book its actually pretty good. But reading about all these places kind of makes me wanna be there *right now*. Yeah yeah I know, patience young Skywalker.
I've been thinking about how to tackle the issue of work.. now that the dream is so close, actually doing any is gunna be pretty damn hard! Just the thought of the food in Italy makes it hard to concentrate on anything... *sigh*
Went to dinner on Saturday night at a friends place. There were 3 guys and 3 girls including myself there, and both of the other girls had just finished building houses. I was thinking about how much money is involved in having a house - built or otherwise established. With blowing all this money on my dream trip, I'm chucking down the plughole money I could be buying a house with. Am I too old to be throwing money away like that? I was listening to them talk about paving and tiling and roofing and shit and I'm thinking "gawd.. in the end they'll have an asset after sinking all this money into it. I'll have fond memories of another country. Which one of us is better off?"
I'm thinking more and more to myself lately that I'd better stop fucking around and actually *do* something with my money rather than letting my job pay for my bills with nothing to show for it. Could this mean I'm finally growing up?
Don't hold your breath :)
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