I own the nubs!
Jul. 5th, 2005 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readingredheadWow, Carissa's slang is definitely rubbing off on me. "Own" and "nub" are her words, not mine -- one having a positive connotation, the other a negative one. But enough of made up words...
Italy's still cool. It's neat when we're going places, but when we're just staying "home" it can get a little boring. It's practically impossible to shower. I think that the biggest shower has an area of maybe a square yard. Mabye. (As in, the area of the shower floor is that big.) There are three girls who have to use the downstairs shower, and the warm water lasts maybe five minutes. The upstairs shower has no water pressure, and there's a hole between the wall and the shower door so if you splash in the wrong direction you get the tile all wet.
But enough of my complaining. Today we went to the Vatican museum and into St. Peter's Cathedral. It was cool seeing the Sistine Chapel again, but...
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Oh my goodness! There were maybe a billion signs saying "no photography, no recording devices at all, don't talk," et cetera, but people were standing in the middle of the Sistine Chapel talking like they were at a football match, and taking photos like a papparazzi! It might be that I've grown older since we last were there, or maybe just that the world has aged in three years, but what I remember about the Sistine Chapel is profound, awed silence at a master work of art that deserved the utmost respect. It was like everyone in there was there alone, and no one talked -- anyone who did would have been shushed. It just felt like something so innately personal and powerful. This was no idle memory; it persisted with power until this year so that I expected the same profundity of experience this time. Sadly, I was wrong.
[/rant]
And I have to go to dinner now, but I wanted to get that off of my chest. Hopefully I'll post some more stuff later.
Italy's still cool. It's neat when we're going places, but when we're just staying "home" it can get a little boring. It's practically impossible to shower. I think that the biggest shower has an area of maybe a square yard. Mabye. (As in, the area of the shower floor is that big.) There are three girls who have to use the downstairs shower, and the warm water lasts maybe five minutes. The upstairs shower has no water pressure, and there's a hole between the wall and the shower door so if you splash in the wrong direction you get the tile all wet.
But enough of my complaining. Today we went to the Vatican museum and into St. Peter's Cathedral. It was cool seeing the Sistine Chapel again, but...
[rant]
Oh my goodness! There were maybe a billion signs saying "no photography, no recording devices at all, don't talk," et cetera, but people were standing in the middle of the Sistine Chapel talking like they were at a football match, and taking photos like a papparazzi! It might be that I've grown older since we last were there, or maybe just that the world has aged in three years, but what I remember about the Sistine Chapel is profound, awed silence at a master work of art that deserved the utmost respect. It was like everyone in there was there alone, and no one talked -- anyone who did would have been shushed. It just felt like something so innately personal and powerful. This was no idle memory; it persisted with power until this year so that I expected the same profundity of experience this time. Sadly, I was wrong.
[/rant]
And I have to go to dinner now, but I wanted to get that off of my chest. Hopefully I'll post some more stuff later.
