Live and learn

Leave all your love and your loving behind
Can't carry it with you if you want to survive 

Games

It's always the same game and, to be honest, I don't really feel like playing.

Fried like a fried egg

Italian saying goes: I'm totally cooked. 
There was a reason why he was the overused example!

Gender Equality

I'm octopusy with him because he's octopusy with me. It's equal rights and equal opportunities, even though admittedly I can extend my octopus tentacles more than he can, without being textbook inappropriate. So let's say it's positive discrimination, or affirmative action, depending on whether you're British or American. (Even though to be so octopusy you'd have to have some Italian in you, most likely).

Friends are for insights

Just another Saturday in affection-deprived London:

"He has the machine-gun approach to love"

"You're being super octopusy"

There are no exceptions

Or are there?

WORDS of WISDOM

"Every girl likes a serenade but the serenade has to be for her"
-endlessly wise love of my life.
 
Which begs the question: how's a girl to know when the serenade is for her?
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger (I have a special love for bilingual sayings!).. there is just the slight problem of when you've become too strong to spot the serenade sung just for you.

Weakness, explained

Perche' non esiste donna che dica 'no' a una serenata.. because there is no woman who'd say 'no' to a serenade..

3 weeks

To the clarity only an intercontinental prospective provides. 

When you look at London from South America you can see it all so small and things and people don't really matter, only the people and things you can still clearly see from there matter. Generally, only the people you can still HEAR from there matter. And when you come back you know.

3 weeks to really TRAVELLING - since way too long ago!

The good old days

Life was easier when there was no texting, emailing, facebooking, skyping, gchatting, voIPing, video conferencing, AIMing, MSN messanging, google stalking.. and as a consequence a lot fewer intercontinental moves. 

It was just better when we were all farmers and married the farmer from the plot of land next to ours.

Italian Sayings

I love Italian sayings and the endless wisdom they contain, I especially like translating them into English. I expecially love when they ring true..

CHI NON MUORE SI RIVEDE [Who doesn't die you see again] as the mass migration back to London starts - of those I knew I'd see again and those I thought I'd never see again and those I almost couldn't hope to see again.

And as the intercontinental migration starts, I notice that IL LUPO PERDE IL PELO MA NON IL VIZIO [The wolf loses its fur but not its vice], as my friend - already mentioned as the intercontinental cyber-flirt and as D for Distraction #1 (#2 turns out to be for Dammit! or for Don't text me your 2am dorkiness! and #3 for Dropping the standard way-too-low!) tells me I'm so American and I should just live and love!