La Vida Loca

Well the computer thing is definitely going to take longer than 5 days. And probably 10 too since I'll get back from SICILY and they will have passed. Damn Lenovo and IBM...

Right now I'm in Sicily on the hotel's free computer in the lobby. Don't feel too badly about the computer thing because RyanAir is ridiculously strict:
1) ONE piece of carry-on luggage (this includes your purse...)
2) it cannot measure more than 55 x 40 x 20 cm (and they make you measure it several times in their little metal bins... if it doesn't fit they make you pay 60£)
3) it cannot weigh more than 10 kilos (about 22 pounds)... reasonable, but if it weighs over, you again have to pay 60£ to check it.

So bringing a computer (if I had one) would mean walking around Sicily in no clothes or the same clothes for 5 days... neither of which is a very compelling choice. It's also pretty chilly here too. I mean, nice enough to not wear my peacoat, but not so balmy that I can go sans-sweatshirt. At least today was... tomorrow is supposed to be in the mid-60s!

Sicily is really nice, but also really crazy. Although I have to say this computer is more up-to-date and functions better than the computers at the University of Ferrara... smh, that thing won't even let me check my Verizon email because it uses a "newer" browser. And I think the desktop is from like 1999.

But my computer problems could be solved temporarily by my friend's really awesome, really really sweet host mom (the Italian lady she lives with) who offered to lend me her son's old laptop (that you have to use plugged in because he dropped it off his bike, but who cares? It has a keyboard, screen and I have the Internet key to plug in).

Hopefully this means more blog posts on the horizon! Although they will continue to be picture-less because I do not have my photo software to download onto the borrowed laptop and I'm not sure what is already on it... Nor do I want to lose any of the photos which are currently on my camera. Can you blame me for being cautious?? ;)

In conclusion: I will probably be extremely run down in Sicily-- about a million cities in 5 days, but I might be able to post and/or be online more often when I get back to Ferrara!