A lazy Monday.

I just finished writing a cover letter and adjusting my resume for my application to be a travel journalist for Cafe Abroad. Who knew? I was hoping an opportunity like that would come along. I was starting to feel anxious about how urgent it will be for me to get an internship when I return from Rome. I feel qualified. I feel like I'll get this internship (and it's paid!).

Last night Spencer, Jersey, Stacy, Steven, Mike, Curtis and I saw I Am Legend with Will Smith. I won't say I hated it, but it could have been better. First of all, the director did a great job of portraying an image of New York City three years after desertion, grown over and empty, wild animals roaming and hunting between the piles of cars. Also, you felt Will Smith's loneliness in the midst of the abandoned buildings. The director also did a good job of pulling at my heartstrings when Will Smith's dog companion was killed by rabid zombie dogs. It was a German Shepard, so of course, I cried. A lot. The whole theater heard me.
But, I feel like the zombie people were too computer animated, which made them a lot less scary than they could have been. I didn't feel afraid enough. I related to them too much because they were still recognizable as intelligent human beings.
In the end Will Smith was obviously portraying a Jesus Christ figure, screaming, "I can save you! Let me save you!" and blowing himself up to "light up the darkness."

After the movie, we came back to the house and slept. Slept until noonish. Woke up and here I am after a few hours of writing and sitting at my computer. I need to shower and get out in the world. It's still snowy and cold. The tree is unlit and the dog is nowhere to be found, nor are any of my roommates.

I think today I'll go to the library and find a book on Italian politics.