i woke up close to noontime only because i spent an obscene amount of time last night playing diablo (i'm back to that addiction again). the weather, all cold and rainy and icy, made it easier to just stay inside all day long. i went out when i had to, to get some groceries after looking over recipe books to find something i wanted to make. i made a beef and potato goulash, which seems like a fancy word for beef stew. it took a long time to make and it wasn't very good, too much tomato, too much green pepper. i also made some caramelized oranges, hard to eat because the melt sugar gets stuck in my teeth (plus, it tastes sort of bitter, i might've burnt the caramel). chasing liberty was the first movie of the day, mandy moore as the president's daughter gone AWOL in europe. a single netflix dvd came in the mail, entre las piernas (1999), a hitchcockian thriller about two spanish sexoholics, featuring victoria abril and javier bardem, was surprisingly good. that was followed by along came polly on HBO with ben stiller and the newly-singled jennifer aniston, and now having seen the movie i understand why it didn't do very well in the theatres. earlier in the evening i was outside shoveling the sidewalk again, a layer of heavy wet slush awaited me. my neighbor renee finally came back and shoveled her stretch of sidewalk, stopping just short of my property line. renee i helped you shovel twice! you owe me! random acts of kindness is not often rewarded, but it seems like i never learn because i shoveled the sidewalk for my other neighbor. i figured it's good exercise, and maybe they'd do the same for me. maybe.

i'm going to go take a hot bath, read an old issue of national geographic, then play some more diablo before going to bed.

giorgia - "vivi davvero"