Palermo, lezioni, soldi.

So, I'm thinking about becoming a genius.

I truly am in my element right now, studying exactly what I want to study, thriving in all of my classes, and for the first time truly enjoying school. This is exactly what I would never get at Fordham.

My direction in life is changing a bit. AUR might be starting a Restoration concentration next year, so I'll definitely be taking all 6 classes for the requirement, but I'm wondering now how I'll fit this all into 4 semesters or so. Summer classes! I'll be trying to get all of those stupid classes out of the way, like math and science, so that I can focus on the things that are more relavent to me.

Tonight I'm going to a gallery off of Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere with Freya... it's a requirement of our Art Gallery Management class and we have to do a write up on the function, layout, lighting, etc. of the place, and it's all very wonderful to me. There are so many interesting galleries here... I want to get involved in the gallery crowd. Go to openings, meet artists and historians, learn everything there is to know about everything... and here is so much more down to earth than in New York. The galleries there are kind of stuffy and high-class.

Which inspires me (and this is where the new direction comes in) to consider opening up my own gallery... something really earthy and accessible, a way to have a relationship with local artists and give people a relaxed atmosphere to view art.

We'll see. I must learn it all first. Restoration too. Maybe add a coffee shop into the mix as well... sip on espresso and discuss art, my two favorite things.