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once upon a time deep in the belly of the beast
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Two months ago

Here's a good picture of me in Firenze taken by Jennifer B. before we got soaked while walking toward Ponte Vecchio.

And now here in Austin the rains continue this morning. I've got a gutter installer coming to give me a quote on a new gutter for the front of the house.

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Current Location: Austin, TX
Current Mood: good
Current Music: wfmu.org - "Pennsylvania Polka" by Polkacide

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busy fun
Haven't posted much as time is better spent outside and in the studio.

Didn't bring a camera so showing a photo Sara took when she, Lillian and I headed to the pool this Wednesday. This is the first weekend that I can remember that I've been able to spend at our home base. Looking forward to more swimming today and tomorrow

Coming up to crunch week for drawing students. A bit less than two weeks left before we head home.

Wish I could find a scanner to show off some of the drawings I've been doing, some of which I'll be giving as gifts to the staff of SC.

For now another caffe and sketchbook on the patio. Then a trek to the grocery store for lunch fixins before pool time.

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Current Location: Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo, Italy
Current Mood: bright
Current Music: wfmu.org

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Tufo
After going to Orvieto on Friday, yesterday a small group of us drove to Pitigliono another city on a sharp cliff built on tufo, volcanic rock, and riddled with caves.
Rome next week and then Venice for four days.

Warm weather today. I think I will venture down to the swimming pool for the first time.

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Current Mood: bene
Current Music: WFMU - April and May - [Korean title #7]

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Orvieto
Off to Orvieto this morning to visit some of my favorite paintings by Luca Signorelli and the duomo they are in.

Steve and Sharon Daly dropped by CF for a visit this week and we are expecting the Hale's this weekend.

We had our mid term crit of drawing students first project. Hope JBJ can get photos so I can put some images up. There was was a lot of very good work. Now off to final project and Rome all next week. Time flies.

More rain daily here with more forecast for Orvieto today.

Back to ping pong last night. Ankle is healing slowly but surely. Still using an ankle brace but colorful bruising has faded.

No swimming yet. Pool not open. The weather is too cool and damp.

Along with sketching architecture on our outings I've started a small book of imaginary towers in planning to make some paintings of the same. So yesterday when searching for images leading to abstraction I ran into this painting by Mondrian. Yes! Coincidenza bella!

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Current Music: WFMU - Cavemen Theory On The Road

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Sunday
We went to Arezzo yesterday and walked around the antique fair that had taken over the city. I didn't stay much longer that past lunch and took the 1:11 train back to CF to give my ankle a rest.

Rain, rain and cool weather here for the coming week. We'll be spending a lot of time in the studio during the day and the night this week.

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Current Mood: cool
Current Music: wfmu.org - Music Of Our Times with The Good Doctor

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out of the rain
Here’s a picture Sara Lawson took of me Tuesday in Florence dripping wet under a copy of Giambologna’s Rape of a Sabine on the Loggia della Signoria.

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Current Mood: fine
Current Music: erika.net

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Firenze
Floods in Austin

Heavy rains in Florence wipes out most drawing time in Florence.

Spent 2.5 holurs i a eatery drying and warming and ate well over a pound of cow.

One way back through the middle corso of CF pumped into Woody.

Tire, not enough sleep last night. Spent a lot of last evening downloading updates updating this iBook. Found a power adapter in Florence and found a power adapter in the office that works. So now have some New Jersey sounds coming out in Tuscany.

First real full drawing class tomorrow.

Pepe has some photos of me that I will share when she sends them.

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Current Music: wfmu - "Sand" by Calvin Johnson

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argh
Email from house sitter AJ. Fleas are back in force at my casa. Fernande won't come down from top of fridge. This after I fogged, advantaged and cat bath days before I left.

Told him to send in the big guns, ABC Pest and Lawn.

Slow weekend here. Working on a water color. Hike to Cortona postponed until Tuesday. Florence trip tomorrow.

Found an iBook, but also need to find one of the gizmos that let you change the plugs to the two pole european plug.

Drinking coffee, doing laundry, that kind of a Sunday morning. Now going to nytimes.com for the news of the day.

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here
Made it across the atlantic. My do I hate sitiing in a tight metal tube for hours.

Setttling in, good friends, students and food. Jet lag abating. Hot as Texas here but rain tomorrow.

Didn't bring a camera and don't see a scanner in the faculty office so use your imagination.

Slow connection and a ibm pc here, augh.

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Bon Jouno!
The news was announced yesterday. Pepe and I will be returning to Italy to teach next summer. We'll be waking up to the bells in this steeple in Castiglion Florentino, Arezzo, Tuscany. Students will be studying early Italian architecture with P and my students will be drawing the same as well as the Tuscan landscape. We teamed up last Fall and are excited about returning

I'm signing up for an informal course in Italian for Travelers. I want to be better prepared this time.

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Current Music: WFMU - Maria Levitsky's last show for awhile

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***Tumblin’ Dice***

Women think I’m tasty, but they’re always tryin’ to waste me
And make me burn the candle right down,
But baby, baby, I don’t need no jewels in my crown.

’cause all you women is low down gamblers,
Cheatin’ like I don’t know how,
But baby, baby, there’s fever in the funk house now.
This low down bitchin’ got my poor feet a itchin’,
You know you know the duece is still wild.

Baby, I can’t stay, you got to roll me
And call me the tumblin’ dice.

Always in a hurry, I never stop to worry,
Don’t you see the time flashin’ by.
Honey, got no money,
I’m all sixes and sevens and nines.
Say now, baby, I’m the rank outsider,
You can be my partner in crime.

But baby, I can’t stay,
You got to roll me and call me the tumblin’,
Roll me and call me the tumblin’ dice.

Oh, my, my, my, I’m the lone crap shooter,
Playin’ the field ev’ry night.

Baby, can’t stay,
You got to roll me and call me the tumblin’ dice, (call me the tumblin’)
Got to roll me, got to roll me, got to roll me (oh yeah)
Got to roll me. got to roll me, got to roll me ( keep on rolling, keep on rolling)
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