Engineering Art

Well its Tuesday the 12th, and my trip home is starting to rear its ugly head this Saturday. Its not all bad though – I am about pasta and pizza’d out, that seems to be 80% of my (and many other Italian’s) diet. The fun part will be driving to Denver to start work on Monday. Its funny that I’m flying westward, because somewhere in that Saturday time period I spend a whole lot of time on a plane, but I still have half a day in Italy and half a day in the states.
I’m working on my series right now for the final project, but I will have to do most of it while in Denver also – I think some late nights are in store there. And speaking of Denver, its business wear there, so it looks like I might need to pick up an extra suit, dang. Work doesn’t really sound like a good idea right now after almost a month of touring the city and drawing – but the money will be nice. I’m sure after a week or so I’ll get back into the flow of things, but for now… And at least I know the people are awesome, maybe I can snag someone to go see Transformers with on July 4th.
I’ll just interrupt my travel-blogging right now to say how awesome Transformers looks. And I’m not talking intriguing plot type good, I’m talking kick ass special effects and explosions good. Its like my childhood grew up, grabbed a flamethrower, and went to town – which is just about as much as anyone can ask for in a summer movie. Maybe this movie will help ease the pain of watching Spiderman 3.

Coffee here is really… really good. So I now have about 3-4 pounds of it coming home with me to the states. One pound to Dad and Papaw, then I’m stocked up for a while on sweet Italian coffee. Its ironic though – Italian culture believes that you should take as long as possible to eat a meal and chat with friends, but if you order coffee drink it at the bar and get out the door. American culture on the other hand believes in getting the maximum amount of customers through a restaurant – so they encourage you to leave as soon as you are done. Coffee places, however, want you to stay and work, hang out, and generally just buy more of their overpriced coffee and snacks, so they offer free internet, nice atmospheres, and other amenities. In Italy, coffee comes as a shot of espresso unless you ask for caffe Americano – that way they can drink it down in one shot at the bar. Generally if you want to sit down with your coffee here you have to pay extra, or they just won’t even let you. So its back to the land of rushed meals, open space, and no more damn public transportation.