San Diego is truly lovely. I never realized how phenomenal the weather really is. I'm really not up to much these days except nurturing my travel-weary self back to California form. I'm looking for a new roommate for the 2002-2003 schoolyear. I hope she is clean and doesn't mind the smell of garlic.
Today I spent a good deal of time at Aaron Brothers' Art Mart reviewing the framing options I had at my disposal to house some of the works of art I brought back from Italy. I picked up 3 very special pieces in Lucca - and I think it may be 4, and I left one back in Assisi - which are all of irregular size. It may cost as much as $60 to have a custom frame made for one of them. I'm presently trying to weigh the long-term benefits of splurging on such a thing, because these prints are unimaginably charming and even signed in pencil by the original artist, even if they are copies, and preserving them early on may be a good investment. They illustrate the Piazza Ovale in Lucca, which may very well be my favorite city in Tuscany second only to Florence. I also picked up matte frames for some vintage art I picked up in Cortona, and now I have a quartet featured on a wall in my bedroom which I am supremely pleased with.
My classmates, on the other hand, have more productive projects going this summer than redecorating their apartments with European knicknacks. Most are working as law clerks and knee deep in legal research. Others are taking required courses like Tax and Professional Responsibility. I may have knocked down International Intellectual Property and International Negotations while abroad, but come on, I was in Florence, and it's hard to say there was any gravity to those courses at all.
But those courses mattered a whole hell of a lot to me. If you know what I mean.
posted by Lucy Sloan @ 11:11 PM
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