Mmm... I can smell spring!

After quite a few days of rain, greyness and chilly winds, Rome is starting to warm up. I'm preparing for at least three days of warm sunny goodness to save me from the grasp of winter.

And spring in Rome! What a brilliant time to be here... people shedding their winter coats (everyone but the Italians... they never seem to get the spring memo), parks being filled with families and little kids playing football. Then there are the street performers. Last year we got some acrobats from Cirque de Soleil doing odd contortions and balancing acts in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. I wonder what it will be like in San Giovanni! Probably more MtV crap. Oh well.

I'm most excited for the nights to get warmer... I can't wait to be able to walk around at night trying to feign a smile while half freezing to death. No, it isn't really *that* cold, but Italy has made me a whimp, what can I say. Anyway, spring is the season of new beginnings and love. Oh what a joy to love and live in the spring in Rome!

I know work is going to pick up too, and now I'm wondering if I get to wear pretty dresses instead of stupid black pants. BORING!

Good thing/bad thing: Just broke a guitar string. Sucks major because I really wanted to play. But now I get to go into the guitar shop right near piazza San Cosimato and buy some strings and make friends with the guys that work there!

Also, with the warmth comes the opportunity to make a couple extra bucks by singing in the piazza with my friends and my guitar. Even if we only make enough to buy a bottle of wine, no worries. Good times had by all! OOOOO SPRING, COME TO ME BABY!