Finally, an Update!

Time has certainly flown recently, and in the next few days I'll try to do my best to remedy the lack of entries for the past month. To begin briefly, the last two weekends in February were spent in Naples, Italy (and Pompeii and Herculaneum) and Paris, France. This whole mini-Euro trip was the end result of my misunderstanding which weekend Jayme and the others from West Point were coming to Rome. It's all about turning lemons into lemonade, and the two past weekends were great. However, as I sit here, and look at my calendar and see that it's already the end of the first week in March, I realize that this year is really beginning to fly by, and soon I should know where I'll be going next year.
Last night I went to karoake night at Queens College with Rita, and since it lasted til after midnight, I ended up spending the night crashed out on her floor. What with the nights between trips when Mom and I were in Cambridge, I seem to have been spending quite a bit of time sleeping on floors lately, but at least in truth I can say that it's better than many of the places that I've slept before.... since it wasn't the woods of Buckner on the ground with nothing but my kevlar as a pillow, and it wasn't the woods of Korea crammed between the gear in my Humvee, so all in all, a floor with proper blankets and a pillow is a decided improvement on some. That said, it wasn't the most restful night, since Rita lives in one of the college "staircases," meaning that it's an old room that dates from goodness only knows when, and her walls are even thinner and less soundproof than mine are, which was something I would have scarcely believed possible. So while she may be getting more of the atmosphere of the whole Cambridge experience, I'll take my larger room that's external to the actual college grounds, and not complain too much.