i am officially out of cotton swabs!

i bought a 30-pack of cotton swabs for my trip, and today i used the last one! i've been travelling for one month. *tiny happy dance*

still in Rome, this is supposed to be my last day. waiting to hear back from a lady with a job and place to stay somewhere in Italy. if i don't hear back soon i will either have to cut my losses or stay here another day. we'll see. i can get a plane to Prague for about €80 today. which is silly cheap. i'll give her a few more hours. i do need to buy more cotton swabs, after all. she has time.

saw the Vatican, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica yesterday. i'm starting to think i don't react to stuff like most people do. it was impressive, yeah, but i wasn't blown away. got a few pictures of the Sistine Chapel, even though photos are strictly prohibited there. but that's not really enforced, so i guess it's cool. saw a lot of sculpture and paintings and surprisingly not a lot of depictions of Hell. anyway.

outside St. Peter's i ran into a girl who's staying at my hostel. we had some dinner together and walked back to the hostel. that was okay. then i played solitaire and ate a real dinner. tried to decipher a local newspaper using only a "European Phrase Book", but dang it's too hard. gave up, played more solitaire, read a bit, went to bed.

i've taken a lot of pictures so far, one of Jesus being really scared, and hopefully i'll be able to upload them somewhere soon.

i think that's all i did yesterday. have no real idea what i'll do today. i'm pretty much out of things i want to see here. well, there's always more to see, but i've hit the big ones. dunno.

right. here we go!