Random

Just some random thoughts from your Rome correspondent...

My head is buzzing from too much caffeine and too much talking on my part. My phone still isn't fixed and my trust in my oh so Swedish ergo reliable phone company has been shaken. Can't they just provide me with a code so I can unlock my phone?

I had a nice but kind of slow weekend. I bumped into a guy from work. I have a crush on him. He sends out mixed signals. He makes me confused. After I met him I ran into Zara and almost bought a beautiful jacket, just as a pick-me-up (I think I tried to transfer the crush on the guy to an inanimate object). I didn't have the cash for it so in the end I walked from the store empty-handed. Poor me, without man nor jacket (on sale, reduced to 49 Euro - the jacket, not the guy).

Things are slowly picking up at work but modern technology and I ca fait deux so when I need to do simple things (like opening an excel sheet) my computer puts up a struggle. So far it's winning.

The new intern is orphaned, no one in the upper echelons has the time for him. I have taken it upon myself to show him the ropes because a) let's be honest here, I'm not exactly swamped with work and b) he's so cute - he's practically the bees' knees.

Yesterday my flatmate woke me up with the announcement that we had no water. I got dressed, looked up the Italian words for 'Do you have water in your tap Madam?', and preceded to knock on our neighbours' doors. It turned out that the work carried out in the street had cut us off so no one in the building had water.. They solved it surprisingly fast though. Weird day.

Later on in the evening my flatmate L Skyped with her family intensely. Her middle daughter had walked out and disappeared after a row with her dad so they were all worried, especially my flatmate since she's on the other side of the world basically. They found the daughter in the end and now all is well but I could see how hard the whole thing was for L. It was a maudlin' evening. When I see how much my flatmate cares for her children I miss my mother! Really, some unconditional motherly love is what I could use right now. And an updated version of Excel but let's not be greedy here.