The first day...

I've been promising to start this blog for a little over a week now, but today the perfect storm (in a good way) created the perfect conditions for starting. So, to partially steal a phrase from my 2 favorite New Zealanders... It's Bloggin' Time!

Conditions were perfect:

1. I got more than 4 hours of sleep for the first time in a week. By more than 4 hours I mean 13, yes 13 HOURS OF GLORIOUS SLEEP!!! Perhaps the last, say 6 months got to me a little bit and now that I'm finally able to relax and unwind, (and beat jetlag after a week) my body is telling me something.

2. It's Tuesday, and Tuesday is ALWAYS our day off. Saturday we go to Fiesole to go to evensong with the monks, but then they aren't there. Sunday is stay-up-all-night-to-finish-my-needs-assessment-project day, Monday is laundry day, but Tuesday I got nothin' to do but sleep 13 hours so it's bloggin time, ahhhhhhhhh yeah....

3. Yesterday we finished our first class and, with 7 hours of sleep combined the 2 previous nights, I was still wide awake for our trip into Florence where our IDP group did a GIS walk, got to be completely carefree for a few hours, had the best gelato in Florence (Grom) which made everyone agree the last 2 days of project madness were worthwhile and, to top it all off, I learned that iPhone 4 is going to be released in the UK June 24...

So there you have it, about 15 conditions neatly organized in a checklist of 3, what? It is my blog...