I became so starved for news on my Italy journey (MTV news just doesn't cut it, especially when it's in Italian) that I've just spent the greater part of the afternoon finding news websites, bookmarking them, reading articles, listening to NPR shows that happened while I was gone etc... that my roomate is telling me I'd best be a poli-sci major.

Oh, and there was enough snow in Tacoma yesterday that class got cancelled. Sure. The day I spend 15 hours on an airplane, and they decide to have a snow day. I didn't even get to make a snowangel before it turned to nasty wet slush! Still, it looks pretty from a distance... If I squint I can pretend I'm in Missoula.

I am also absurdly happy to be back at PLU. Sign that I picked the right school, or sign that I spent too many nights sleeping in the same room as my parents? We may never know.