And Now Back to Our Program

My apologies for the interruption in regular programming. In order to thank you for your patience (some of you anyways), some photos of a few of the things I've been up to since Christmas:

Said a sad goodbye to the fam before my flight back to Rome on New Year's Eve:

(Ben's doing that on purpose so I have no better picture)

Checked out the life-sized Nativity Scene at St. Peter's:



Celebrated my birthday over pretty pink flowers and scrumptious brownies and cookies by Chef Cancemi...

...before skipping off to Barcelona to spend a well-timed long weekend with a friend. Most of the things we saw I'd already seen so I didn't take many photos. These ones are of a hospital that looks (on purpose) like a fairy-tale land:



Took some preliminary shots of my co-workers in preparation for the AE Commissary 2007 calendar:

Will - "Blue Steel"


Maria - "It's a Walk-Off"


Margaret & Will - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"


yours truly - "Oh it's IN the computer..."

Karaoke with Carlotta and new friend Charley - need I say more...?

Carlotta: "this is silly, i'm embarrassed!"

2 seconds later: "It must have been love...but it's oooooooooooooover nooooooooow....."