UDaR on meeting deux

More substantiative posts coming soon, I swear, but for now all the info is on Una Donna a Roma, my Rome-focused blog, where info about the academics of my time in Rome this fall have gone up.

A presto!

UDaR on meeting numero uno

Una Donna a Roma has been updated with details, most notably pertaining to visas and plans for other Europe excursions, from the first pre-departure program meeting yesterday afternoon. Enjoy!

UDaR: in which I can't smile

A new Una Donna a Roma post about the bizarre process of having six pictures of me taken for mysterious study-abroad purposes is up and rockin'.

Additionally: UDaR update on family + Rome

Earlier this week I updated Una Donna a Roma, my Rome-focused blog, with some of the history of my family and Rome (my mother's side of the family is Irish and Italian). This was mostly to keep the blog from dying with lack of greater program specifics by trying to post once a week or so with things at least partially relevant to the eventually upcoming trans-continental experience. :) If you haven't seen it yet, check it out!

UDaR update on program specifics

A new post is up at Una Donna a Roma regarding the conversation I had today with a friend who did the Rome civ program this past fall; I learned quite a lot about the program, some of which I reproduced there.

New UDaR post on the deposit + end of classes

(End of classes for real this time. Except for the class I have to teach high schoolers tomorrow afternoon.)

There's a new post about the paying-the-deposit, officially-accepting-my-position process up at Una Donna a Roma.

In North American news, classes are finally done, in that I sat through the travesty of a sosc class this afternoon. It wasn't really a travesty, just kind of boring. But useful when it comes to our papers on Foucault due next week, especially since my professor changed the due date of the paper to Wednesday instead of Monday. I have enough stuff going on Tuesday and Wednesday, so I'll probably just be doing the paper this weekend anyway as originally planned, but it's nice to have a few extra days to look it over and pretend to edit it.

Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me is tonight. In an hour and ten minutes, actually, which means I need to shower (I just got back from the gym), grab some dinner quickly, and get ready to head out; I'm leading this trip, so I'm in charge of 9 other undergrads plus my own fine self and making sure that we get to the Metra station on time to catch the train north. It should be fun, all things considered (NPR pun? I swear it was unintentional).

Additionally, new sub-blog

To keep things focused a bit, I've started up a new blog specifically for Rome content; it can be found at Una Donna a Roma. I will continue to blog here throughout the process of getting ready for Rome, and even while I am in Rome, but UDaR will have the nitty-gritty details of the process, and when I am in Rome it will contain descriptions of trips, sights seen, cultural experiences had, and the like. This blog will remain a general depository for thoughts on the internet, college life in general, ASoIaF, and all that it usually is. UDaR will probably be slow for a bit until preparations really start gearing up next quarter, but I'll let you guys know here when a new post regarding the Rome process is up. Until then, enjoy yourselves. :)