Leri, Oggi, Domani

I'm so tired I'm nearly incoherent. I fell asleep at the National Museum "Il Bargello." Florentine people seethe with resentment at tourists. The way to tell if someone is giving you the exactly wrong directions is that they will slowly jerk an open fist up and down the whole time.

So begins my Italian journey. I have many unanswered questions: I know its disrespectful, but I am nursing the suspicion that Italy is a third world country. For example, people warn me about involving the police in your affairs. Things are very affordable here so far.

My housing in Barcelona just fell through... shnap.

I saw disturbing graffiti in Florence today: "Kosovo is Serbia." I saw exactly the same graf on a Paris bridge last month.

Song of the day: M .I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix)

Stendhal syndrome: "or Florence syndrome, is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly 'beautiful' or a large amount of art is in a single place. The term can also be used to describe a similar reaction to a surfeit of choice in other circumstances, e.g. when confronted with immense beauty in the natural world."