sxg: October 2004

`don't tell the pucc!'

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let's just hope flavia's knee is still fully functional tomorrow.
and good thing she doesn't have to add Laptop to her expenses.

the good news is:

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we have recovered the Bloomberg laptop. the bad news: these are probably stena's favorite trousers.
nice socks, flavia

on my way home

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at the top of the Gianicolo

the gift that keeps on giving

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only a true friend could have picked out this gem - and realized a desire i never even knew i had. Hall & Oates - Greatest Hits. is that an oxymoron?

and to top off the evening

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i got pulled over at 4 a.m. for turning right on red. and for talking on the phone while doing so.
they wanted to confiscate my scooter but i managed to turn on the waterworks, scaring the 3 cops into letting eli and me go with only a slap on the wrist.

and a 180 euro fine.

thanks to prodi

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for not keeping steve in brussels.

stena + braga

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we had to separate the couples

eyes on the prize, ame

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size matters

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bruni's heard good things about stefano accorsi's latest performance

group mug shot

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so far

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i'm a little upset about the whole cellphone incident...but i have no idea what's still to come this evening

+ eli

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glad eli made it from Paris. a much-needed break from apples, cheese and the frogs

the mr.s HC and mrs. ITB

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marcolino looking rather shifty-eyed with braga and bruni

the ms. apricots

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stena and flavia

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in the end, flavia managed to pay for just one rose. we almost ended up with 10 and one very angry rose seller.

not an auspicious start to the birthday

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i dropped my phone in the street while on the scooter and raced back, only to reach it at the precise moment that a red Fiat 500 ran right over it.

dinner is about to be served

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you can't see it but igor's doing his very best impersonation of betty crocker. or martha stewart. the oven glove was a nice touch

rome's own

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queer as folk

+ igor

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so i only meant to stop by igor's on my way home for a quick catching-up session, but the evening turned into an impromptu shindig. dinner was lovely, the company was engaging and the conversation scintillating. but the hours of vodka on the rocks do not make for the healthiest of friday mornings in the office.