The amazing world of Selma Øye

It's been raining since wednesday evening...
The end of semptember... New classes (but i have any of them to attend), new people around...
I thought it was the right time to look for a new friend to speak a bit of english together with and learn something about a new culture...
So, i went to the erasmus office to renew my card and while being there the guy writing on the card, when heard about my willing to find a scandinavian friend, asked me "is an estonian fine anyway? At least he lives on Baltic sea!"... And I said: "Why not!?"...
So my new tandem's Endrico from Estonia!!
We're going to meet next week, as soon as he knows his classes time schedule!!
Yesterday I went with Ilaria to Guardistallo to bring the pottery she needs to study for her thesis.
I drove all the way by myself under the rain!! My driving skills finally are growing!!
As usual, every time we go to Val di Cecina it rains!!!

I feel so strange in these days... I'm a bit more energetic than usual, but at the same time i feel frivolous in an insane way...
I don't want to have a confrontation with real life!

Helene came to Italy few weeks ago to visit her boyfriend Matteo and gave to Ilaria a Cd with the picture she took of us: finally I have the proof sometimes I work!!!

Labels: My life

I've talked five times with my boss about my thesis as she will be my second supervisor for it as the professor who'll help me is a historician and i need also an archaeologist as a supervisor...
First time we were still excavating. I asked her about a possible subject telling her about my old idea of continuing the research I started for the first level degree thesis, working on Medieval Castles of Val di Cecina, but she said that it would have been good for a phd thesis and a too big job for a second level one. So I told her: of what where you thinking?
And she answered that i could write something about monasteries starting from the one in Montescudaio and she suggested to discuss later about, after the end of the campaign of this year.
So we finished to excavate, I started to do my part-time job, I sat for some exams and decided to contact her again the at the end of july. I went to visit her on another excavation and while eating, she repeated exactly the same evenescent speech adding some notes for texts to read about monasteries (male, female, in Tuscany, in north of Italy, excavated, known by written sources and so on...) to choose by myself the subject.
I called her the first week of september to tell her what i had thought after reading what she suggested to me: my idea was to do a geographical survey about monasteries in Val di Cecina, no matter if female, male, from early or medium middle age... She agreed with me, suggesting as a comparison for the Badia of Montescudaio, to have a look about S. Paolo di Pugnano which is, even if a bit far, a good example of female monastery.
So I went to talk with my supervisor who told me in her opinion, there are not enough written sources to do an historical research about Val di Cecina, and gave me to do a comparison between the monastery of Montescudaio and two other monasteries already studied by other people...
Not so happy with this, i wrote an email to my boss about this subject and we met, for the fourth time, the day i sat for my medieval topography exam. She said she was going to meet the professor and talk with her about.
So today I called her, and she said she had no chance to do a proper talking with my first supervisor so she'll meet her when she'll be back from Corsica, after the 12th of october...
Moral of the story: we started to talk in may, I've been reading for it some months to define the subject and we won't know nothing more about until the half of october if I'm lucky!!
Do u think I'll be able to graduate in July?

...I think no!

Labels: My life

I'm supporting the international web piracy in these days downloading all the episodes i can find of an old american tv series called Northern Exposure.
*Unless the peer-to-peer program I've installed on my notebook keeps on working! As it can't work in a proper way and my "good-for-nothingess" in this kind of problems doesn't allow me to act for solving all this*
I totally forgot about this serie for years. I'm a huge fan of american tv series. I haven't been missing an episode of Emergency Room since its beginning, the same for Lost, even if i still miss to watch the last series already seen in U.S.A. as they usually arrive later in Italy, I think because of royalties and dubbing...
*and I haven't been trying to download them because of the peer-to-peer problems expressed before... I'm really envious for my friend with computer scientist boyfriend who already watched all the third serie of Lost!!!*
...So I wait patiently for the italian television to broadcast them.
My last discover is the series Numb3rs, good "filler" of many summer sunday evenings. One of the main character of this, agent Don Epps seemed to me so familiar, until suddenly i remembered where I had already seen his face: in the "Northern Exposure" series!
It was broadcasted in the early '90s when i was around 10-12, this one during the summer too, and I used to watch it every day after doing my summer homework every morning. It is set in Alaska, where Joel Fleishmen (Rob Morrow/Don Epps, that's it!) is sent, after taking his degree thanks to a study loan of this state, to work as doctor.
It's been so strange noticing how i manage to forget completely this tv series I used to like so much. After remembering about, i found in my memories that i used to wait impatiently the right time to watch it, collecting small pictures and plot summaries from the tv magazine my mother used to buy at that time. Maybe I was unconsciously already so attracted by surreal situations and snow and polar bears and small north villages!!
So now, as it hasn't been broadcasted in Italy since 2005, I'm trying to find some episodes and understand what was there of so attractive for me!

Labels: tv and films and media

I borrow this from Colores:

A month: December


A day of the week: Saturday


A planet: the Earth


A time: 6.00 p.m.


A drink: a Zoccola (a long drink created by the best barman of Pisa, Yuri)


An instrument: transverse flute


An animal: a polar bear


A fruit: a Mango


A flavour: sweet


A cake: an apple pie


A food: every kind of pasta


A body part: the eyes


A CD: "Quiet is the new loud" by Kings of Convenience


A song: "Confessioni di un malandrino" by Angelo Branduardi


A school subject: History


A sport: cross country skiing


A number: 7


An age: 25


A color: Green


A town: Stockholm


An invention: the internet


A film: Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Pulain


An actor/actress: Audrey Tatou


A job: the vet


A country: Iceland


A feeling: love


A virtue: patience


A fault: acting on impulse



A musician: Jens Lekman


A work of art: L'Empire des lumière by Magritte


A book: Livlakände besök by Per Olov Enquist

Labels: games tests and thing like these

I spent yesterday afternoon reading my old posts on this blog.
The first ones are only pictures, i used to upload them here just to have an url and posting them on forums...
Then I started to write... At the beginning with posts once or twice a week... Then less often... And in these last months I've been litterally in hiding!
In the post of 2006 i kept on repeating I was going to write a post about my journey to Oslo... But i realized I've never written it!
Now, i could write about my impressions, but not about the trip, more than a year has passed and there wouldn't be any particular reason after all these months.
But, becoming aware of this, I've decided to write more punctually about trips and visits.

So it's my time to talk about Rome.
I know it's pretty strange for an archaeologist but I had never been to Rome before the short trip I took with Claudio the 8th and 9th of September for the "Notte Bianca".
I perfectly know we chose the worst week-end to see the town: an incredible crowd outside at every time of day and night, nervous people working, unpolite people in shops and bar after a sleepless night! I keep on ascribing the bad impression i had of the town to this special situation even if I'm conscious that's not the truth.

The 8th of September
-1.45 p.m.: I took the train for Florence, Claudio was already on it. He booked two seats on a Eurostar from Florence to take the trip together with his friend Manfredo.
-5.15 p.m.: we arrived in Rome, Manfredo had his friend Ilaria waiting for him so we separated. I and Claudio went along via Cavour to via dei Fori Imperiali and here started hour long long walking through Rome: the imperial forums, the roman forum, Campidoglio, the Colosseum, via del Corso, palazzo Chigi, Fontana di Trevi, palazzo Madama,the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Montecitorio, Castel Sant'Angelo and Piazza San Pietro: all this until 9.00 p.m.!

-9.15 p.m: we ran back to Piazza Navona and waited for Manfredo and his friend Ilaria to go to eat in a nice place called "La Danesina" not so far from the square.


The 9th of Semptember
-00.00 a.m.: After dinner we went back to Piazza Navona and spent a little bit of time watching a marionetta's performance. Then Manfredo and Ilaria went with us to the Campidoglio where we separated again. I and Claudio stayed there to see the Battiato gig. The crowd was terrible, noisy and extremely unpolite. The concert wasn't one of his best, he sang only old and famous songs and crowd didn't stop crying for all the time.

-1.30 a.m.:after the gig we decided to have a tour of the town again: we went to Trastevere, then to Circo Massimo, then we tried to visit the Sinagogue, but it was going to close (it was around 4.00). So we had another walk in the centre, seeing Piazza di Spagna and finally on the Pincio to see the Dervish tourneurs... It was a pity that we misunderstood as at Pincio there was a gig and not them!
-5.00 a.m.: Exactly like homeless we laid down on the blanket of Claudio with heads on our backpacks, covered with my blankets and slept a couple of hours!
-7.00 a. m.: Ready to go, with feet like sausages and empty heads we went down the steps of Piazza di Spagna, had a walk, then we went to visit Santa Maria in Cosmedin, and finally again the Sinagogue, we saw the beginning of an hebrew wedding too!
-12.00 p.m.: we went to Feltrinelli in Largo Argentina, i bought the guide book of Paris and we ate something there, then back to Termini and finally i sat on the train trying to sleep... Unfortunately doing the ticket at the machine i forgot to take the proper ticket and took only the reservation...

Ah well!!
I hailed to the end of this trip!
But what i promised to myself is that i want to go there again as soon as possible, trying to see everything with a bit more of time, and trying to find roman people more calm and well disposed to listen to other people!

Labels: journey

It's the third post for today, i know!
Well, I have to be honest with myself: I suddenly remembered this afternoon that i
own a blog I hadn't been writing on since a long
time...
I've been staying here writing and deleting and writing again since 2
o'clock p.m. and I've just discovered I can post from my email box...
This is only a test to see if i'm able to do it!!!
By the way: with clockcounter I've just discovered a nice spanish girl
found by chance "my amazing world" and decided to put it in her links,
it's a so lovely thing!!! So, I had a look on her blog and linked it
too!:)

I'm really so confused in these days!

the irrefutable proof of this is that i wrote two posts today!
Usually uploading this space three times a year, and now...
Sbepps called me less than two hours ago to propose me an excavation in Trentino... It would be great!! Unfortunately the professor i've been collaborating with in these months proposed me to renew the contract for part-time collaboration and of course, not knowing about this possibility i said "Yes"...
I hope there will be another chance too...
Now, i keep on staying here pretending to do things like studying... I Haven't even been reading any page today until now!
Anyway, I demanded for news about Nantes before, and without any hesitation they came: my special friend received a letter saying that he shouldn't be demanding asking so often about news or the professor could become annoyed of him...
I really don't know what to do!

Everything's always the same here... Still waiting for the biggest casuality of my life but nothing i was expecting for happens!!
My dog's turning into a lizard, loosing again his hair and doing anything but sleeping under the sun.
In the meanwhile i booked a flight for Stockholm.
Ryanair set a Pisa-Stockholm direct flight which starts travelling since the half of october and I booked a seat for the 25th of the month, spending there only 5 days though.
I can't wait to meet Johan again, he found for me and Claudio, who'll come with me, a little very cheap flat in the centre of the town.
In the meanwhile I booked a flight for Paris too. With Ryanair too!! I think they should pay me for fidelity!
Kika is going to spend there three months.
The reason of this decision is mostly because the Malta affaire went wrong.
This needs an explaination, i know.
Well... It's pretty easy to say: i was afraid! I was afraid to spend all alone a week with a nice guy who I had never met before. Most of all i was afraid to enjoy the week, already knowing to have only remote difficult possibilities to be together after that time. So I gave up.
Then my special friend told me about his chance to go to Nantes for a PHD and suddenly i decided to go to Paris to visit Kika... I've never been to Paris before!!!:D
The problem is: he hasn't, or doesn't give me, any news about this PHD and now I'm really really afraid that there won't be any Nantes... So I risk the suddenly coming back of the problem of July which could leave me breathless...
What to do?!

-Me and Fiaba in Fosdinovo for the medieval performance



EDIT few seconds after publishing it: i'm so dumb in these days i didn't even notice I wrote a short post in August already talking about Stockholm and Paris... So, again, you can notice that nothing new happened in my life... And I'm still absent-minded as usual! Well, at least in this one there's a little explaination!