A rainy Tuesday

Here is the information for the art show:

The opening reception for the Arches Student Show is Sunday, Feb 15, 3-5pm at Boston University, 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Ave.

Please go and see everyone's work (and my print) if you're in the area.



I enjoy how they always have fruit and nuts for dessert here. It's very light and nice. Except I think Fulvia thinks that I'm weird (nuts haha) because she brought out some nuts and I said "what are these?" and she said something like "nuts!" but I actually meant "what kind are they?" since we had to husk them ourselves and I guess I'm not too familiar with what nuts look like in their natural state. They were actually hazelnuts, walnuts, and almonds. Now I know for future reference.

Also, yesterday for dinner Fulvia's daughter and son-in-law came over for dinner (tortellini in broth, meat wrapped around some egg/ bread concoction) and I just listening to them talking in Italian. I think they were discussing Il Papa, the Pope. Then she whipped out this jar of skin salve which was actually olive oil and wax together (it works really well and now I kind of want some).

Siena has a wood shack set up in the Piazza del Campo with delicious fried rice balls with powdered sugar (they may sound strange but are actually amazing amazing amazing). They call them Fritelle and it's a special deal every year near carnivale. They're 4 for 1 euro or 8 for 2 euro, etc. I usually get 8 because I'm so obsessed with them. I don't think I will ever get sick of them.

Today we stopped by the Accademia dei Fisiocritici Natural History Museum. It's a super small museum full of glass cases chock full of shells, stuffed animals, and bones. I took some pictures and will post them soon. The second floor had a section full of stuffed birds. Everything else was mostly okay but for some reason I couldn't take all those birds on sticks. I ran away from that section because no one else seemed to be around and it was getting creepy.

I'm going with a friend Arielle, and her home study room mate to Venice at the end of the month for Carnivale and we're staying on beachy Lido. I can't wait to go back to Venice.