And on the Seventh Day, She Rested... and Ate Cake

No, I'm not god, or God, or Marie Antoinette or whatever... but I did take a break from doing stuff yesterday.  After staying up late the night before, I slept until noon or so, then checked email and went to lunch with my roommate and a couple of other girls.  Then we went and got very delicious tiramisu from Hermes' bar, which was really good... then I did... something... Oh, yeah, I came into the studio for the internets and talked to Andy on Google Chat for a while.  I contemplated going to the Palio race but, as it was a walk up the hill and not nearly as relaxing as I wanted, and was likely to be full of people, I opted to stay at Santa Chiara and do stuff on the webs and such, including talking to Erica on the Facebook chat thing while we were sitting in the same room, only a few feet away from each other.

A bit later on, I printed the posters for the exhibition on Tuesday as well as the invitations for the faculty.  The former were given to the U of Virginia students for dispersal around town, and the latter were folded in half, personalized, and given to Ann to distribute to the faculty members, RAs, and staff of Santa Chiara.

Then we had dinner... on plastic plates, with plastic cups... I guess that, since so many people were out at the Palio and eating later (they were saving dinner for the people who were off to the Palio) and didn't want to have to do dishes.  We had really nice rotini in a super cheesy tomato sauce, which was delicious, and the very thinly sliced rare beef with amazing mashed potatoes and a salad.  I think dessert was the torta di nonna, grandmother's cake, which we've had before but was really nice and very sweet.

After dinner, I went back to the studio and did more online stuff, maybe talked to Andy some more... something like that. Then I went up to my room and finished reading Dragonsong, it's a short book... promise.  Monica had been downstairs watching Moulin Rouge and we were both reading in bed, her a magazine she got from another girl, me, the aforementioned book, and snacking on cookies.  Before she came back, I took the photo below... a long exposure shot out my window towards the hills and the night's full moon.

The long, white streak a bit up from the bottom of the image is a car's headlights during the eight second exposure for the image.  Here's one of the moon on its own with a much faster exposure setting, so you can actually see the craters and landscape.