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I made an offer to the potential employers and they said now right away. I took some time to think it over, and today I called them to say I am refusing their offer (they simply cannot expect me to work hard for peanuts).
I feel good about it, I am sure that by looking around [...]

Another week wheezed by and took me by storm with its events.
I got a job offer that I am considering at present. That would mean changing completely the direction my career has taken lately, and I might just drop the web and take on a position in human resources and logistics, for an oil services [...]

I am absolutely, utterly horrified. I just received a chain letter illustrating the atrocious cruelty a company in Japan is inflicting to cats. If it's a joke it's thoroughly sick and very sad, I just cannot find the words to describe what they are doing. You can find out what it is about by visiting [...]

Well well well, I have a job interview tomorrow afternoon. Got it through a dear friend of mine who'd heard of the position going and thought of me. I still do not know very much about the job itself, a lot needs to be discussed at the interview, but the prospect of leaving my current [...]

I just got a phonecall from my friend R., she just got back from a holiday in Fiji where… she got married to her boyfriend of 10 or 11 years (can't remember, it seems like ages anyway).
I must confess I was sort of expecting this, I always thought they were the kind of people who'd [...]

I have been trying for ages to upload posts to my blog, with no success. I saved one of them, written a few weeks ago (June 25th, to be precise), just as a short update on wat I've been doing:
"Weeks can go by with me doing nothing but sleep eat and work, and then - [...]

News from the French mag I'm writing for: I managed to get the deadline extended to next Friday. Whew. Something tells me that I'll be up all Thursday night…

Now, there is no doubt I love my good friend G. dearly, and I am so sorry he ended up in hospital and looks like he needs surgery. BUT he happens to be the privileged owner of a ticket to Madonna's gig here in Milan next Thursday, and it's unlikely he'll manage to go.
There are [...]

The weekend news are better: I went back to my mum's house, she was away so I spent the weekend there with my boyfriend.
I wish I could see him more often, I've just asked him to come and see me in Milan next week (my flatmate will be away), or at the latest the following [...]

PANIC! I just realized that the deadline for the article I am writing is not June 13th as I thought, but June 10th = yesterday! I actually had the correct date written down in an e-mail I received, but somehow I was convinced that I had two more days.
I just sent a message asking for [...]

Random achievements of the past 2 (blogless) months:

moved to Milan
got a job
lost 4 pounds
put back on 4 pounds
was commisioned an article for a magazine

And many more yet to come…

Some friends of mine are making babies (welcome Caterina), some others are getting married - is my generation finally taking responsibilities? We seem to have a problem with that in Italy, 30 year olds refusing to grow up, and I've just seen a brilliant Italian movie describing this phenomenon vividly. If it ever shows at [...]

I've just shaved off my goatee completely. It feels quite odd, I think I had not seen my upper lip for the past 4 years.
Meanwhile, "Popstar" (Italian version of the "5 Divas" TV format ) has ended tonight with Lollipop (5 girls selected among thousands to fabricate a Spice-Girls-style-girl band and record) signing autographs upon [...]

This is going to be more journal- than blog-like, but… boy what a day.
I don't know what has happened to me, but I think I just took the decision to move back to Milan, where I had been living and working up to a couple of months ago. It is a very painful decision to [...]

That's it. I'd had enough juggling with free web space providers, website- and email-redirect services, and I took the big leap into ownership of my own domain.
I found it so easy and convenient to do that that I wonder why I haven't done it before.
So (if everything works out fine) it should be active in [...]

She is featured on the cover of Attitude magazine. She fantasizes about lesbian sex. Her new single is a cover of the Weather Girls' 80's hit "It's Raining Men" and is featured in the "Bridget Jones' Diary" soundtrack. So Ms Halliwell has realized that three out of four of her fans is a gay man. [...]

A little tinkering with the site, and the dolls page is now redesigned. I used a bit of JavaScript to open new windows, but I am a bit unsure about that. I wonder how many people have that disabled, and I don't know what might not work in that case. If you encounter any problems [...]

Yeepee! I just realized that HRT1 is showing the awards ceremony live. That's the Croatian National Television, my main source for movies and sitcoms in the original language (Italy dubs everything in Italian).
I live close enough to the border to catch that, so I guess it's sleep time for the PC - and no more [...]

I mean, there must be better things to do at 4 AM like, I don't know, SLEEPING?
Oh well, it's gone now, might as well read some news. I wonder how the academy awards are doing (due to the time zone difference between Italy and the West Cost of the USA, it must have started about [...]

This is way too early.

I totally agree with Keith on Dylan. Cute guy. Great design (And an accent to die for!)

Oops!… This means that I've been saving my pennies pointlessly for the past 8 years. Darn. But I can confirm that the last sentence is true (I wouldn't know about the liposuction bit, though)

I just found out that the ice-skating world championship is on at the moment.
There was a time when I used to watch that on TV all the time, and then rush to the ice-rink and try (pathetically) to do the same. Now the nearest ice-rink is one hundred miles from here, Italian TV refuses to [...]

Paris has now a gay man as a major, and a transgender woman (and former colleague of mine) elected to the city council.
Italy, on the other hand risks having an idiot as a prime minister next may (sort of our own version of Dubya). I am considering moving back to France as a political refugee…

First with Justify My Love, then Erotica. Now Madonna has managed to raise controversy once again with her latest video. As with the previous ones, I expect Italian television to play it non-stop regardless of what it displays - my country is full of contradictions…

Problem seems to be solved by changing the Archive setting to "no Archive". Don't really need that right now as I've been posting for under a week.

I'm having problems and a NullPointerException error message. Anyone knows what that could be?

Well it worked. I'm on my way to the ultimate separation of style and content.
As per the atmosphere at home, We have not stuck our noses out of the main door since Sunday night, fearing that we could all be murdered by the evil brother so that he can get the whole inheritance…
Note to self: [...]

I just spent the whole afternoon testing my blog site with Netscape (I've only ever used Explorer) and it sucked!
I wonder how many people out there use Netscape, I don't care, I think it's fair to give them all a chance to see things as I meant them to look like.
I also removed all layout [...]

Woke up at 3:30 AM (grrrr…) and started putting together a few facts about myself. You'll find them in the about page.
The list is not exhaustive yet, I'll fill in more info later. In the meantime, should you like me to answer any other questions, feel free to ask.