A day.

Today was a lovely day, slept a ton and woke up late to run to Musee dell'Academia, where the famous David is on display.

My friend Sayam turned to me in the middle of class, I swear he has ants in his pants during class and said,

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift....that's why they call it the PRESENT".

In the new sacristy in San Lorenzo, we saw two tombs, one depicted the deceased as contemplative, and the other was depicted as active. Our teacher said that this represented two different ways to live your life: live an active life or live a pensive life. Got me thinking at how I live mine. It doesn't much matter, I think most people live theirs as a combination of both...these two lives are more of how others perceive someone's life.


.........

I need a skill.

I'm not exactly sure what type of skill, just some sort of talent, that is out of the ordinary of my every day life.

I have decided that i want to learn the cello. I don't know when, but it's something I want to do. And someday I'll play the harp again....

But a real hardcore skill would be nice, like "olympic-luge-ist" (thanks ashley), or a pool shark or a darts champion (thanks kaitlin) that'd be a pretty sweet skill to have at a bar. But I need something a little more epic...like climbing up walls.

Ashley just made plums smell so good.....she's magic.

Heading to Belgium in a few hours.....I'll let you know if I find a skill there.

Band we saw in Dublin:

SkiPass

Working for a snowboarding company is the most incredible thing....

I met up with Dan in Modena, where the Ferrari factory is and met Bruno, one of the Italian sales reps....it was so chill! Even more so than in the States, I couldn't believe it....I have really strong convictions when it comes to business ethics, but EVERYONE was drinking at SkiPass so I joined in....people working there were walking in with 'supplies'=tons of beer :) We did really well for the day and went out for dinner and such afterwards...i'm stoked, i'll be working for Dan again in November in Switzerland

Now i'm in Dublin--went on a pub crawl last night and to a dub concert....SO DOPE! There's something about the Irish that's makes me feel like i'm home, maybe it's the bit of Irish that's in me coming alive. My Irish family moved from County cork to Chicago, Illinois....these are some lyrics from a band at a pub last night:

--To the city of Chicago, now the evening shadows fall, there are people dreamin of the County Cork--

Then I brought the guide from our pub crawl to the Twisted Pepper--the venue of the dub show...so bomb, not like the SF or NY.....better :)

Peace!

Dublin, Ireland.