[4/15/2011 8:36:21 AM] Katie Symington: Troy troy troy troy!
[4/15/2011 8:36:23 AM] Katie Symington: Troy troy!
[4/15/2011 8:36:25 AM] Katie Symington: Troy!
[4/15/2011 8:37:13 AM] Troy Symington: Me
[4/15/2011 8:37:31 AM] Katie Symington: HOLA!
[4/15/2011 8:37:36 AM] Katie Symington: Como estas?
[4/15/2011 8:37:59 AM] Troy Symington: Bene! E tu?
[4/15/2011 8:38:26 AM] Katie Symington: Bueno!
[4/15/2011 8:38:43 AM] Katie Symington: So what are you doing?
[4/15/2011 8:39:44 AM] Troy Symington: Having a lazy day for once! I have literally done nothing today but sleep in, eat, and be lazy. It's sooooo nice to not do anything!
[4/15/2011 8:40:36 AM] Katie Symington: Sounds lovely!
[4/15/2011 8:40:43 AM] Katie Symington: Are you still on spring break?
[4/15/2011 8:41:14 AM] Troy Symington: I haven't been on spring break for 3 weeks...
[4/15/2011 8:42:07 AM] Katie Symington: er. . .
[4/15/2011 8:42:12 AM] Katie Symington: I've been really busy?...
[4/15/2011 8:42:13 AM] Katie Symington: oops
[4/15/2011 8:42:29 AM] Troy Symington: Ha, it's ok.
[4/15/2011 8:42:37 AM] Troy Symington: Whatcha doing right now?
[4/15/2011 8:43:22 AM] Katie Symington: we just got up and I made waffle batter--the super healthy except for chocolate chip batter that I posted the recipe for on my blog--and nick is making them now. Then we're going to run for a while, and I have tons of hw, and then work this afternoon
[4/15/2011 8:44:34 AM] Troy Symington: Sounds good! Except for... ya know... the hw and work part. Speaking of which, how is work going for you? Are you still enjoying it?
[4/15/2011 8:45:41 AM] Katie Symington: Yes, very much, except that yesterday I was at Carden from 9-6 with barely an hour break and those kids are talkative. I totally had a headache by the time I got home. But there wasd a French play of Alice in Wonderland they did yesterday, it was wonderful!
[4/15/2011 8:45:50 AM] Katie Symington: School is kinda killing me currently
[4/15/2011 8:45:56 AM] Katie Symington: alliteration1
[4/15/2011 8:45:58 AM] Katie Symington: !
[4/15/2011 8:47:02 AM] Troy Symington: Does "currently" technically fit in with the alliteration since it's a "c" but still makes the same sound?
[4/15/2011 8:48:30 AM] Katie Symington: i think so.
[4/15/2011 8:48:32 AM] Katie Symington: ;)
[4/15/2011 8:48:57 AM] Katie Symington: what was that student flying site ?
[4/15/2011 8:49:16 AM] Troy Symington: You mean studentuniverse.com?
[4/15/2011 8:49:20 AM] Katie Symington: yes thx
[4/15/2011 8:49:24 AM] Troy Symington: It wasn't that great...
[4/15/2011 8:49:30 AM] Katie Symington: no?
[4/15/2011 8:49:43 AM] Troy Symington: The prices were good but then when our flights kept changing it became a hassle.
[4/15/2011 8:49:52 AM] Katie Symington: true
[4/15/2011 8:50:06 AM] Troy Symington: Plus, there's no way we could change our ticket without paying a ridiculous amount.
[4/15/2011 8:50:16 AM] Katie Symington: ah
[4/15/2011 8:50:23 AM] Katie Symington: es verdad
[4/15/2011 8:50:31 AM] Troy Symington: Why? Where do ya want to go?
[4/15/2011 8:50:52 AM] Katie Symington: andra's family is giving her their timeshare time for kauai in june and she invited me and maybe Nick to go
[4/15/2011 8:50:58 AM] Katie Symington: to this gorgeous resort place
[4/15/2011 8:51:10 AM] Katie Symington: I don't think I'll go without Nick, but I'm looking at prices just in case
[4/15/2011 8:51:59 AM] Troy Symington: Oooh la la! That sounds awesome if you do decide to go!
[4/15/2011 8:52:41 AM] Katie Symington: true!
[4/15/2011 8:52:58 AM] Katie Symington: let's see what else. we are training for the 5k
[4/15/2011 8:53:12 AM] Troy Symington: Good! When is it?
[4/15/2011 8:54:14 AM] Katie Symington: may 7th at 7:30am
[4/15/2011 8:54:23 AM] Katie Symington: day before mother's day
[4/15/2011 8:54:29 AM] Katie Symington: at cal expo--right by us!
[4/15/2011 8:56:20 AM] Troy Symington: Nice! How far have you been running to train for it? (Or biking).
[4/15/2011 8:56:21 AM] Katie Symington: ack it's like 900 to hawaii!
[4/15/2011 8:56:34 AM] Katie Symington: each!
[4/15/2011 8:56:36 AM] Katie Symington: eeeeee!
[4/15/2011 8:56:53 AM] Troy Symington: For both ways? That's about what I paid to go to europe!
[4/15/2011 8:57:03 AM] Katie Symington: exactly, que ridiculo!
[4/15/2011 8:57:07 AM] Katie Symington: or something
[4/15/2011 8:57:08 AM] Katie Symington: ;)
[4/15/2011 8:58:32 AM] Troy Symington: Ha, che ridiculo!
[4/15/2011 8:58:41 AM] Katie Symington: Anyhoo we haven't actually worked out for the last few days. But when we do, it's normally every day to every other in the gym doing weight lifting and treadmill running, a mile to 1.5 at a time, and climbing the stairmaster for a mile. We bike around--I biked 9 miles on Monday going back and forth from school and 3 on Wed, but nothing yesterday because of work and I was tired. We ran 3 miles (.5 of one we walked) and Nick is pushing me to work on speed as well as endurance, agh. ;)
[4/15/2011 9:00:07 AM] Troy Symington: Ha, definitely work on endurance first. Once you can run over 5 km without stopping is when you should start working on speed.
[4/15/2011 9:02:48 AM] Troy Symington: Hey! Where did ya go?!
[4/15/2011 9:03:20 AM] Katie Symington: gah! I'm sorry I disappeared! My computer decided to restart to update!
[4/15/2011 9:04:07 AM] Troy Symington: Va bene! (It's ok)!
[4/15/2011 9:04:14 AM] Katie Symington: :)
[4/15/2011 9:04:18 AM] Katie Symington: so how is your italian coming?
[4/15/2011 9:05:44 AM] Troy Symington: Good I guess! We started talking about our final in Italian class... not gonna be fun. But I'm not too worried about it, I have like a 98% in that class or something.
[4/15/2011 9:06:00 AM] Katie Symington: excellent!
[4/15/2011 9:06:17 AM] Katie Symington: but how is your conversational italian? Can you talk to other italians in it?
[4/15/2011 9:08:26 AM] Troy Symington: Eh... not really. I can get by easily enough and have really basic conversations. But there's no way I could really converse with other italians.
[4/15/2011 9:08:41 AM] Katie Symington: well you keep working on it, you have . . . a month and four days?
[4/15/2011 9:08:43 AM] Katie Symington: right?
[4/15/2011 9:08:50 AM] Katie Symington: When does your school end?
[4/15/2011 9:09:31 AM] Troy Symington: The program ends on April 29th. So there's only like 2 weeks left! Then Alec and I are travelling around on our own for 2.5 weeks.
[4/15/2011 9:09:46 AM] Katie Symington: so where will you and Alec go?
[4/15/2011 9:11:46 AM] Troy Symington: We're going to fly to Dublin from Pisa. Then travel around Ireland and the UK for a while. We're going to hafta fly back to Frankfurt at the end though because that's where our flight is leaving from and we didn't realize when we booked it that we'd have to leave the Schengen countries.
[4/15/2011 9:12:13 AM] Katie Symington: .....oh?
[4/15/2011 9:12:22 AM] Katie Symington: Sounds gorgeous!
[4/15/2011 9:12:35 AM] Troy Symington: Yuh Huh!
[4/15/2011 9:12:41 AM] Troy Symington: We'll see!
[4/15/2011 9:13:28 AM] Katie Symington: Oh it will be. I wonder how much it will rain on you in Dublin.
[4/15/2011 9:13:50 AM] Troy Symington: Probably a lot... we'll see.
[4/15/2011 9:14:02 AM] Katie Symington: ha
[4/15/2011 9:14:07 AM] Katie Symington: you will start to mold!
[4/15/2011 9:14:11 AM] Troy Symington: I'm really excited to get to the UK and see London and the cliffs of Dover and all that!
[4/15/2011 9:17:16 AM] Katie Symington: It sounds incroyable!
[4/15/2011 9:17:27 AM] Troy Symington: Incroyable?
[4/15/2011 9:17:28 AM] Katie Symington: Mom and I were looking thru her trip to England the other day, showing me Wales and more
[4/15/2011 9:17:36 AM] Katie Symington: Yes I speak as I spell
[4/15/2011 9:17:38 AM] Katie Symington: I spell as I speak
[4/15/2011 9:17:49 AM] Katie Symington: Okay, whta is it supposed to be?
[4/15/2011 9:18:03 AM] Troy Symington: What's what?
[4/15/2011 9:18:11 AM] Katie Symington: incredible!
[4/15/2011 9:18:21 AM] Troy Symington: Right...
[4/15/2011 9:19:54 AM] Troy Symington: How long did mom go to England back in the day?
[4/15/2011 9:20:10 AM] Katie Symington: um...
[4/15/2011 9:20:13 AM] Katie Symington: ??
[4/15/2011 9:20:20 AM] Katie Symington: some amount of time
[4/15/2011 9:20:46 AM] Troy Symington: Very specific. : )
[4/15/2011 9:21:59 AM] Katie Symington: lol
[4/15/2011 9:22:13 AM] Katie Symington: I am looking more seriously at the hawaii trip with Andra . . . it looks pretty damn awesome now. It would be lik 140 a day for me for ten days
[4/15/2011 9:22:23 AM] Katie Symington: for food, airfare, and accomodations
[4/15/2011 9:22:27 AM] Katie Symington: That's like a cruise ship
[4/15/2011 9:22:35 AM] Katie Symington: except with more hawaii time
[4/15/2011 9:23:39 AM] Troy Symington: I gotcha. Sounds pretty sweet! Stupid money though... it looks like I'm going to need to get a new car when I get back. No clue how I'm going to afford anything.
[4/15/2011 9:27:15 AM] Katie Symington: Uhoh
[4/15/2011 9:27:21 AM] Katie Symington: Good thing you are living at home still bud
[4/15/2011 9:27:24 AM] Katie Symington: that helps!
[4/15/2011 9:27:29 AM] Katie Symington: :)
[4/15/2011 9:27:38 AM] Katie Symington: Is your civic in that bad of shape?
[4/15/2011 9:27:40 AM] Katie Symington: from water damage?
[4/15/2011 9:28:25 AM] Troy Symington: Yup. There's that leak in the trunk, and mom just found another leak in the front, plus the sun roof is broken, and everything else is worn down and on the verge of breaking!
[4/15/2011 9:28:35 AM] Katie Symington: ....uhoh
[4/15/2011 9:28:39 AM] Katie Symington: that is no good!
[4/15/2011 9:29:29 AM] Troy Symington: The problem is I'm going to have 0 money when I get back! And I still need to buy musical item thingies! Like I'm going to need to buy like a $400 computer program for Musical Theory!
[4/15/2011 9:53:56 AM] Katie Symington: Oops. I forgot about you. Sorry!
[4/15/2011 9:54:06 AM] Katie Symington: Brain bad. I was reading about 5k's and training.
[4/15/2011 9:54:26 AM] Katie Symington: and FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS THAT IS INSANE!
[4/15/2011 9:54:50 AM] Katie Symington: Okay, my computer is being lame. I'm gonna go shower and getready to run. I love you!
[4/15/2011 9:55:04 AM] Troy Symington: Love ya! Have fun with everything!
[4/15/2011 9:55:11 AM] Katie Symington: Mwah!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Quick Chat
[4/5/2011 11:38:45 PM] Katie Symington: What what my bruddah!
[4/5/2011 11:39:29 PM] Troy Symington: Can't talk! Studying!
[4/5/2011 11:39:57 PM] Katie Symington: Yes you can!
[4/5/2011 11:40:21 PM] Katie Symington: As in: What you've been doing and what you're studying and what you will be doing, because dude, I haven't talked to you indays!
[4/5/2011 11:40:47 PM] Troy Symington: Katie. I can't talk right now. Love you! Bye!
[4/5/2011 11:48:21 PM] Katie Symington: Poohead. I love you too. Ninight.
Hours Later . . .
[12:07:36 PM] Katie Symington: Hey you
[12:07:59 PM] Troy Symington: Hey!
[12:08:28 PM] Katie Symington: Can you talk now, Mr. Brisk?
[12:08:58 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, better hurry, cuz we're gonna leave soon to hang out with people.
[12:09:08 PM] Katie Symington: Well catch me up! What have you been up to?
[12:09:54 PM] Troy Symington: School! Homework! Planning the weekend in Cinque Terre! Then on sunday we're going to another soccer game with like 20 people from the program!
[12:12:41 PM] Katie Symington: are you playing or watching
[12:13:00 PM] Katie Symington: and what are u doing in ct?
[12:16:02 PM] Troy Symington: Watching. It's the Florence team vs the Milan team.
[12:16:24 PM] Troy Symington: We're just going to hike and enjoy the beach in ct! It will be a vacation from a vacation!
[12:16:48 PM] Katie Symington: sounds lovely.
[12:16:55 PM] Katie Symington: how are the texas girls?
[12:19:27 PM] Troy Symington: Ummmm... what? You mean the girls we met in Switzerland?
[12:19:49 PM] Katie Symington: perhaps
[12:20:06 PM] Troy Symington: Haven't seen them since Switzerland.
[12:25:07 PM] Katie Symington: interesting. How about the Firenze girls?
[12:26:03 PM] Troy Symington: Hahahahahahahaha! ....no. I've still hardly even TALKED to girls from Firenze. Italiand girls DO NOT go for American guys.
[12:26:32 PM] Katie Symington: lol well at least u can admire la bella figura, yeah?
[12:26:45 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, definitely.
[12:27:31 PM] Katie Symington: are the italian boys super cute? You should take pictures for meeee!
[12:28:14 PM] Troy Symington: Omg! They are sooooo totally thuper cute and like, stuff!!!!!!!!!
[12:28:26 PM] Troy Symington: How would I know these things?????
[12:28:27 PM] Katie Symington: um, you just got stereptypical gay guy lisp
[12:28:46 PM] Katie Symington: I dunno! Are there a lot of attractive guys around, more than the US?
[12:28:52 PM] Troy Symington: That was the point... it's so hard to convey accents via text.
[12:29:01 PM] Katie Symington: racist! ;)
[12:30:01 PM] Troy Symington: Again... how would I know these things. And how is that racist in any way?
[12:31:09 PM] Katie Symington: Um, it's kind of a joke with Nick. Whenever someone says something that could be construed as prejudiced we ususally say "Racist!" and then try to figure out what that actually would be
[12:31:26 PM] Katie Symington: Man, I'm gonna have to edit this post to put it on the Florence blog
[12:32:14 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, sorry about that! Soooooo... what have you been up to?
[12:32:30 PM] Katie Symington: Hmm. I have been exercising a lot, and eating healthier. Ish.
[12:32:52 PM] Katie Symington: If you check out serendipity you will see some of my yummy recent dinners/breakfasts and my running ness
[12:33:09 PM] Katie Symington: And besides that , you know how we've only got 5-6 weeks of school left! I've got lots of papers and group projects and midterms coming due, ACK!
[12:35:56 PM] Troy Symington: Oh noes! Yeah, the whole school thing is pretty easy over here with the exception of my freaking WORLD HISTORY CLASS!!!! The teacher is really nice but she grades hard and I can never figure out what she wan't us to write! Anywho... are you thinking about classes for next semester? Our registration is just a couple of weeks.
[12:36:22 PM] Katie Symington: Yes, I have an appointment with a counselor on Tuesday to make a 2 year plan, and I can register on the 21st, I think.
[12:36:28 PM] Katie Symington: It's crazy how fast this semester went by!
[12:36:49 PM] Katie Symington: Speaking, of, we have class to go to now. Gotta go bud. Love you!
[12:41:30 PM] Troy Symington: Love ya! Bye!
[4/5/2011 11:39:29 PM] Troy Symington: Can't talk! Studying!
[4/5/2011 11:39:57 PM] Katie Symington: Yes you can!
[4/5/2011 11:40:21 PM] Katie Symington: As in: What you've been doing and what you're studying and what you will be doing, because dude, I haven't talked to you indays!
[4/5/2011 11:40:47 PM] Troy Symington: Katie. I can't talk right now. Love you! Bye!
[4/5/2011 11:48:21 PM] Katie Symington: Poohead. I love you too. Ninight.
Hours Later . . .
[12:07:36 PM] Katie Symington: Hey you
[12:07:59 PM] Troy Symington: Hey!
[12:08:28 PM] Katie Symington: Can you talk now, Mr. Brisk?
[12:08:58 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, better hurry, cuz we're gonna leave soon to hang out with people.
[12:09:08 PM] Katie Symington: Well catch me up! What have you been up to?
[12:09:54 PM] Troy Symington: School! Homework! Planning the weekend in Cinque Terre! Then on sunday we're going to another soccer game with like 20 people from the program!
[12:12:41 PM] Katie Symington: are you playing or watching
[12:13:00 PM] Katie Symington: and what are u doing in ct?
[12:16:02 PM] Troy Symington: Watching. It's the Florence team vs the Milan team.
[12:16:24 PM] Troy Symington: We're just going to hike and enjoy the beach in ct! It will be a vacation from a vacation!
[12:16:48 PM] Katie Symington: sounds lovely.
[12:16:55 PM] Katie Symington: how are the texas girls?
[12:19:27 PM] Troy Symington: Ummmm... what? You mean the girls we met in Switzerland?
[12:19:49 PM] Katie Symington: perhaps
[12:20:06 PM] Troy Symington: Haven't seen them since Switzerland.
[12:25:07 PM] Katie Symington: interesting. How about the Firenze girls?
[12:26:03 PM] Troy Symington: Hahahahahahahaha! ....no. I've still hardly even TALKED to girls from Firenze. Italiand girls DO NOT go for American guys.
[12:26:32 PM] Katie Symington: lol well at least u can admire la bella figura, yeah?
[12:26:45 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, definitely.
[12:27:31 PM] Katie Symington: are the italian boys super cute? You should take pictures for meeee!
[12:28:14 PM] Troy Symington: Omg! They are sooooo totally thuper cute and like, stuff!!!!!!!!!
[12:28:26 PM] Troy Symington: How would I know these things?????
[12:28:27 PM] Katie Symington: um, you just got stereptypical gay guy lisp
[12:28:46 PM] Katie Symington: I dunno! Are there a lot of attractive guys around, more than the US?
[12:28:52 PM] Troy Symington: That was the point... it's so hard to convey accents via text.
[12:29:01 PM] Katie Symington: racist! ;)
[12:30:01 PM] Troy Symington: Again... how would I know these things. And how is that racist in any way?
[12:31:09 PM] Katie Symington: Um, it's kind of a joke with Nick. Whenever someone says something that could be construed as prejudiced we ususally say "Racist!" and then try to figure out what that actually would be
[12:31:26 PM] Katie Symington: Man, I'm gonna have to edit this post to put it on the Florence blog
[12:32:14 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, sorry about that! Soooooo... what have you been up to?
[12:32:30 PM] Katie Symington: Hmm. I have been exercising a lot, and eating healthier. Ish.
[12:32:52 PM] Katie Symington: If you check out serendipity you will see some of my yummy recent dinners/breakfasts and my running ness
[12:33:09 PM] Katie Symington: And besides that , you know how we've only got 5-6 weeks of school left! I've got lots of papers and group projects and midterms coming due, ACK!
[12:35:56 PM] Troy Symington: Oh noes! Yeah, the whole school thing is pretty easy over here with the exception of my freaking WORLD HISTORY CLASS!!!! The teacher is really nice but she grades hard and I can never figure out what she wan't us to write! Anywho... are you thinking about classes for next semester? Our registration is just a couple of weeks.
[12:36:22 PM] Katie Symington: Yes, I have an appointment with a counselor on Tuesday to make a 2 year plan, and I can register on the 21st, I think.
[12:36:28 PM] Katie Symington: It's crazy how fast this semester went by!
[12:36:49 PM] Katie Symington: Speaking, of, we have class to go to now. Gotta go bud. Love you!
[12:41:30 PM] Troy Symington: Love ya! Bye!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Firenze Again
[10:22:22 AM] Katie Symington: troy-o!
[10:23:14 AM] Troy Symington: Hey! I just got back into Firenze like 10 minutes ago and I'm already talking to both you and mom!
[10:25:35 AM] Katie Symington: wow, busy boy! I won't keep you long, but is everything all good?
[10:26:32 AM] Troy Symington: Yup. Just about to start making dinner, so yeah, can't talk long.
[10:26:57 AM] Katie Symington: Okay, have a good dinner and a good night and I will talk to you later! I am going on a bike ride with nick's whole family today and then doing hw, fun times. ;) Love you!
[10:27:43 AM] Troy Symington: Ok! Have fun with that! Get your endurance up for that race! Love ya!
[10:28:14 AM] Katie Symington: :)
[3:26:17 PM] Katie Symington: 12 miles biked!
[3:27:39 PM] Troy Symington: Nice! But it's really late for me and I have school in the morning so I'm going to go now! Love ya!
[3:27:57 PM] Katie Symington: Have a good day tomorrow, fun at school and all, love you too! ninight!
[10:23:14 AM] Troy Symington: Hey! I just got back into Firenze like 10 minutes ago and I'm already talking to both you and mom!
[10:25:35 AM] Katie Symington: wow, busy boy! I won't keep you long, but is everything all good?
[10:26:32 AM] Troy Symington: Yup. Just about to start making dinner, so yeah, can't talk long.
[10:26:57 AM] Katie Symington: Okay, have a good dinner and a good night and I will talk to you later! I am going on a bike ride with nick's whole family today and then doing hw, fun times. ;) Love you!
[10:27:43 AM] Troy Symington: Ok! Have fun with that! Get your endurance up for that race! Love ya!
[10:28:14 AM] Katie Symington: :)
[3:26:17 PM] Katie Symington: 12 miles biked!
[3:27:39 PM] Troy Symington: Nice! But it's really late for me and I have school in the morning so I'm going to go now! Love ya!
[3:27:57 PM] Katie Symington: Have a good day tomorrow, fun at school and all, love you too! ninight!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Hiking and Biking
[12:04:35 PM] Katie Symington: Troy-o!
[12:05:37 PM] Troy Symington: Well, hi!
[12:05:52 PM] Katie Symington: Hey! I'm talking to mom right now. What are you up to?
[12:06:17 PM] Troy Symington: Sitting in my hostel in the Swiss Alps!
[12:06:42 PM] Katie Symington: Dude, how awesome is it that you can even say that? ;
[12:06:45 PM] Katie Symington: )
[12:07:14 PM] Troy Symington: I know, right?
[12:07:57 PM] Katie Symington: Super coolio!
[12:08:03 PM] Katie Symington: What did you do today?
[12:08:57 PM] Troy Symington: Hiked around the mountains all day! That's seriously all we did. What are you up to?
[12:10:30 PM] Katie Symington: I am talking with mom and planning out our day. Nick and I will go jogging outside soon--it is BEAUTIFUL out, today will probably be in the eighties again. Mom might come visit us for a bit, maybe dad too, and I want to get some flowers for our patio. Then we are havin dinner with Nick's parents--homemade burgers, yum! Mom and Dad are going out for dinner for their anniversary, which I hope you said congrats to them about!
[12:11:23 PM] Troy Symington: I... might have forgotten it...
[12:12:19 PM] Katie Symington: Uh-oh!
[12:12:39 PM] Katie Symington: You'd better get a postcard or something from Switzerland and send it to them (or keep it and hand it over) because it's neutral territory and they can't get mad at you. ;)
[12:12:56 PM] Katie Symington: It was their 31st anniversary!
[12:13:02 PM] Katie Symington: they will go out probably tonight
[12:13:49 PM] Troy Symington: Very nice! And I don't know how anyone expects me to remember when their anniversary is. The only reason I even remember YOUR birthday is because it's the day after mine!
[12:14:18 PM] Katie Symington: lol
[12:14:34 PM] Katie Symington: Well hmm. I don't know how to help you there.
[12:14:47 PM] Katie Symington: I just remember it
[12:14:50 PM] Katie Symington: ;)
[12:14:57 PM] Katie Symington: Oh well. But perhaps you could give them a belated happy anniversary message on facebook
[12:15:36 PM] Troy Symington: Okay, sounds like a plan.
[12:15:56 PM] Katie Symington: :)
[12:16:00 PM] Katie Symington: What will you do tomorrow?
[12:16:06 PM] Katie Symington: And how is your hostel? Is it nice?
[12:16:55 PM] Troy Symington: Our hostel is pretty standard. It was a bit overpriced just like everything over here in Switzerland (plus this is a total tourist town). But the people are really nice!
[12:18:20 PM] Katie Symington: Awesome! I've never been to a hostel though bud. Can you describe it a bit better?
[12:20:01 PM] Troy Symington: Ummmm... we're in a dorm. Two bunk beds so it fits six people total. But by some stroke of luck we're the only ones in the room! The bathrooms and showers are downstairs, and this hostel is weird and makes you take off your shoes before you go to your room.
[12:20:42 PM] Katie Symington: LOL
[12:20:47 PM] Katie Symington: sounds like fun!
[12:20:55 PM] Katie Symington: What day do you come back again? Sorry I keep forgetting ;)
[12:21:08 PM] Troy Symington: May 19th.
[12:22:40 PM] Katie Symington: I just registered for the Race for the Cure on May 7th
[12:22:42 PM] Katie Symington: :)
[12:23:05 PM] Troy Symington: Do tell...
[12:23:50 PM] Katie Symington: It is a 5k race for the breastcancer cure--you know, Susan G Komen thingimagigger
[12:24:00 PM] Katie Symington: It's right by our apartment and starts at 7:30am
[12:24:05 PM] Katie Symington: I get a t-shirt for my $40!
[12:24:12 PM] Katie Symington: Nick and Andra will do it with me :D
[12:24:22 PM] Troy Symington: Oh wow! Are you gonna practice for it?
[12:25:18 PM] Katie Symington: Definitely! Otherwise I would be totally urgh on the day!
[12:25:45 PM] Katie Symington: I have been running in the gym here with Nick, and I can do 1.5 miles without being too dead. but I definitely need to work up to 3.1! We are goin for a jog outside soon.
[12:26:59 PM] Troy Symington: Ha! That's awesome. Yeah, 5k really isn't as far as it seems. When Quentin put on the run in the park it was a 5k. And I think I ran that pretty well.
[12:27:20 PM] Katie Symington: Cuz you are AWESOME
[12:27:26 PM] Katie Symington: I have never run 3.1 miles, I think.
[12:27:43 PM] Katie Symington: Unless I did in those 20 minute runs we did in pe in weimar
[12:27:51 PM] Katie Symington: But it is a goal for me to work up to!
[12:27:52 PM] Katie Symington: :)
[12:27:58 PM] Katie Symington: Nick and I biked 16 miles yesterday!
[12:28:52 PM] Troy Symington: That's awesome! There's a lot of mountain biking trails around here and it really makes me miss mountain biking. Is there any particular reason you guys bikes 16 miles?
[12:30:43 PM] Katie Symington: Nope. We wanted to go for a bike ride, and around 8 miles or so we realized we had to get back for me to go to work. I'm glad we turned around then though, because by the time we finished getting home my endurance was waning! :)
[12:31:48 PM] Troy Symington: I bet! Back when I was biking a lot we usually only did about 10-15 miles (but that was over hills and trails).
[12:32:00 PM] Katie Symington: Nice!
[12:32:35 PM] Katie Symington: Okay bud, I am gonna get going. I need to make Nick get up and jog! :)
[12:32:41 PM] Katie Symington: I love you! Be safe and have tons of fun, okay?
[12:32:51 PM] Katie Symington: Mwah!
[12:33:21 PM] Troy Symington: Do I have to be safe?
[12:34:13 PM] Katie Symington: YES
[12:34:16 PM] Katie Symington: PBBBT
[12:34:23 PM] Katie Symington: *that was a raspberry*
[12:34:35 PM] Troy Symington: *sigh*
[12:34:36 PM] Troy Symington: Fine.
[12:34:41 PM] Katie Symington: lol ciao dude. love ya!
[12:34:43 PM] Troy Symington: Love ya!
[12:34:54 PM] Troy Symington: Ciao!
[12:05:37 PM] Troy Symington: Well, hi!
[12:05:52 PM] Katie Symington: Hey! I'm talking to mom right now. What are you up to?
[12:06:17 PM] Troy Symington: Sitting in my hostel in the Swiss Alps!
[12:06:42 PM] Katie Symington: Dude, how awesome is it that you can even say that? ;
[12:06:45 PM] Katie Symington: )
[12:07:14 PM] Troy Symington: I know, right?
[12:07:57 PM] Katie Symington: Super coolio!
[12:08:03 PM] Katie Symington: What did you do today?
[12:08:57 PM] Troy Symington: Hiked around the mountains all day! That's seriously all we did. What are you up to?
[12:10:30 PM] Katie Symington: I am talking with mom and planning out our day. Nick and I will go jogging outside soon--it is BEAUTIFUL out, today will probably be in the eighties again. Mom might come visit us for a bit, maybe dad too, and I want to get some flowers for our patio. Then we are havin dinner with Nick's parents--homemade burgers, yum! Mom and Dad are going out for dinner for their anniversary, which I hope you said congrats to them about!
[12:11:23 PM] Troy Symington: I... might have forgotten it...
[12:12:19 PM] Katie Symington: Uh-oh!
[12:12:39 PM] Katie Symington: You'd better get a postcard or something from Switzerland and send it to them (or keep it and hand it over) because it's neutral territory and they can't get mad at you. ;)
[12:12:56 PM] Katie Symington: It was their 31st anniversary!
[12:13:02 PM] Katie Symington: they will go out probably tonight
[12:13:49 PM] Troy Symington: Very nice! And I don't know how anyone expects me to remember when their anniversary is. The only reason I even remember YOUR birthday is because it's the day after mine!
[12:14:18 PM] Katie Symington: lol
[12:14:34 PM] Katie Symington: Well hmm. I don't know how to help you there.
[12:14:47 PM] Katie Symington: I just remember it
[12:14:50 PM] Katie Symington: ;)
[12:14:57 PM] Katie Symington: Oh well. But perhaps you could give them a belated happy anniversary message on facebook
[12:15:36 PM] Troy Symington: Okay, sounds like a plan.
[12:15:56 PM] Katie Symington: :)
[12:16:00 PM] Katie Symington: What will you do tomorrow?
[12:16:06 PM] Katie Symington: And how is your hostel? Is it nice?
[12:16:55 PM] Troy Symington: Our hostel is pretty standard. It was a bit overpriced just like everything over here in Switzerland (plus this is a total tourist town). But the people are really nice!
[12:18:20 PM] Katie Symington: Awesome! I've never been to a hostel though bud. Can you describe it a bit better?
[12:20:01 PM] Troy Symington: Ummmm... we're in a dorm. Two bunk beds so it fits six people total. But by some stroke of luck we're the only ones in the room! The bathrooms and showers are downstairs, and this hostel is weird and makes you take off your shoes before you go to your room.
[12:20:42 PM] Katie Symington: LOL
[12:20:47 PM] Katie Symington: sounds like fun!
[12:20:55 PM] Katie Symington: What day do you come back again? Sorry I keep forgetting ;)
[12:21:08 PM] Troy Symington: May 19th.
[12:22:40 PM] Katie Symington: I just registered for the Race for the Cure on May 7th
[12:22:42 PM] Katie Symington: :)
[12:23:05 PM] Troy Symington: Do tell...
[12:23:50 PM] Katie Symington: It is a 5k race for the breastcancer cure--you know, Susan G Komen thingimagigger
[12:24:00 PM] Katie Symington: It's right by our apartment and starts at 7:30am
[12:24:05 PM] Katie Symington: I get a t-shirt for my $40!
[12:24:12 PM] Katie Symington: Nick and Andra will do it with me :D
[12:24:22 PM] Troy Symington: Oh wow! Are you gonna practice for it?
[12:25:18 PM] Katie Symington: Definitely! Otherwise I would be totally urgh on the day!
[12:25:45 PM] Katie Symington: I have been running in the gym here with Nick, and I can do 1.5 miles without being too dead. but I definitely need to work up to 3.1! We are goin for a jog outside soon.
[12:26:59 PM] Troy Symington: Ha! That's awesome. Yeah, 5k really isn't as far as it seems. When Quentin put on the run in the park it was a 5k. And I think I ran that pretty well.
[12:27:20 PM] Katie Symington: Cuz you are AWESOME
[12:27:26 PM] Katie Symington: I have never run 3.1 miles, I think.
[12:27:43 PM] Katie Symington: Unless I did in those 20 minute runs we did in pe in weimar
[12:27:51 PM] Katie Symington: But it is a goal for me to work up to!
[12:27:52 PM] Katie Symington: :)
[12:27:58 PM] Katie Symington: Nick and I biked 16 miles yesterday!
[12:28:52 PM] Troy Symington: That's awesome! There's a lot of mountain biking trails around here and it really makes me miss mountain biking. Is there any particular reason you guys bikes 16 miles?
[12:30:43 PM] Katie Symington: Nope. We wanted to go for a bike ride, and around 8 miles or so we realized we had to get back for me to go to work. I'm glad we turned around then though, because by the time we finished getting home my endurance was waning! :)
[12:31:48 PM] Troy Symington: I bet! Back when I was biking a lot we usually only did about 10-15 miles (but that was over hills and trails).
[12:32:00 PM] Katie Symington: Nice!
[12:32:35 PM] Katie Symington: Okay bud, I am gonna get going. I need to make Nick get up and jog! :)
[12:32:41 PM] Katie Symington: I love you! Be safe and have tons of fun, okay?
[12:32:51 PM] Katie Symington: Mwah!
[12:33:21 PM] Troy Symington: Do I have to be safe?
[12:34:13 PM] Katie Symington: YES
[12:34:16 PM] Katie Symington: PBBBT
[12:34:23 PM] Katie Symington: *that was a raspberry*
[12:34:35 PM] Troy Symington: *sigh*
[12:34:36 PM] Troy Symington: Fine.
[12:34:41 PM] Katie Symington: lol ciao dude. love ya!
[12:34:43 PM] Troy Symington: Love ya!
[12:34:54 PM] Troy Symington: Ciao!
Switzerland!
Lisa Symington 12:14 PM
Hey buddy, are you there?
Troy Symington 12:14 PM
Hey Ma!
Lisa Symington 12:15 PM
Where are you?
Troy Symington 12:15 PM
In my hostel in Switzerland!
Lisa Symington 12:15 PM
Care to share? Like in case you die and I have to come and pick up your body?
Troy Symington 12:16 PM
Ha, we're in the Valley Hostel in Lauterbrunnen in the Swiss Alps!
Lisa Symington 12:16 PM
You're supposed to let me know where you are, at least WHICH COUNTRY YOU ARE IN!!
12:17 PM
You bad boy! So, how is Switzerland? and the alps? and how cold/snowy is it?
Troy Symington 12:21 PM
Not very cold at all! And the valley we're in has hardly any snow. It's a big carved out glacier valley with sheer cliffs. It's very much like yosemite. And out of our hostel window we can see Jungfrau, the highest point of the alps!
Lisa Symington 12:21 PM
Sounds perfect. I was just looking at the website for the hostel and it is gorgeous. Are mosquitos out?
12:22 PM
You will need to go hiking on some of those beautiful trail I saw in the photos
Troy Symington 12:24 PM
As far as I've seen there have been 0 mosquitos (I think it might be a little too cold). It got a lot colder once the sun set. Tomorrow we're going to go hiking around for most of the day. That's more or less the entiretly of our plans, because the trains around here are SO FREAKING EXPENSIVE!!!
Lisa Symington 12:27 PM
Ooh, sorry about the trains.... but it looks like a good place to be stuck and you can relax not having to cram another city/spot in this weekend. How long did it take to get there? another night train?
Troy Symington 12:28 PM
Yeah, it took about 5 hours by train... and it was an expensive frikken train.
Lisa Symington 12:28 PM
Who is with you?
Troy Symington 12:29 PM
Alec and Nate.
Lisa Symington 12:29 PM
Great. More geek photos
12:30 PM
Any night life in your little town?
Troy Symington 12:31 PM
Ha, we walked through it a little while ago at about 9 and I think even the pub was closed.
Lisa Symington 12:32 PM
I guess that's a NO then... Any fun people in the hostel with you?
Troy Symington 12:33 PM
We met some girls from Texas on the train to Interlaken and ran in to them later in the day and walked with them for a bit, but their hostel is back down in Interlaken so we're not sure if we'll see them again.
Lisa Symington 12:33 PM
Sounds like a quiet night then ....
Troy Symington 12:36 PM
Yup. This entire place is marketed towards adreneline junkies. The only things to do in these towns is skiing, skydiving, hiking, base jumping, mountain biking, ect. So there's absolutely no nightlife. We're getting up early to enjoy the sunshine!
Lisa Symington 12:37 PM
OK, but I can't condone base jumping.....
Troy Symington 12:37 PM
If only I had the money...
Lisa Symington 12:37 PM
It's a good thing you're poor then, haha.
Troy Symington 12:38 PM
But I'll have the money eventually and then there'll be nothing you can do to stop me! Muhahahaha!
Lisa Symington 12:40 PM
Technically, maybe... but I'll try to think of something! We are having a really gorgeous day. I guess the weather was good earlier in the week, but I missed it at work. I have all the windows open now and recently returned from walking the circle with the dogs. Now I need to go work outside.
12:41 PM
You have a good night's sleep and a fun day tomorrow. Please try to stay in touch!
Troy Symington 12:42 PM
I'll try! I love ya!
Lisa Symington 12:43 PM
Love you too!
Hey buddy, are you there?
Troy Symington 12:14 PM
Hey Ma!
Lisa Symington 12:15 PM
Where are you?
Troy Symington 12:15 PM
In my hostel in Switzerland!
Lisa Symington 12:15 PM
Care to share? Like in case you die and I have to come and pick up your body?
Troy Symington 12:16 PM
Ha, we're in the Valley Hostel in Lauterbrunnen in the Swiss Alps!
Lisa Symington 12:16 PM
You're supposed to let me know where you are, at least WHICH COUNTRY YOU ARE IN!!
12:17 PM
You bad boy! So, how is Switzerland? and the alps? and how cold/snowy is it?
Troy Symington 12:21 PM
Not very cold at all! And the valley we're in has hardly any snow. It's a big carved out glacier valley with sheer cliffs. It's very much like yosemite. And out of our hostel window we can see Jungfrau, the highest point of the alps!
Lisa Symington 12:21 PM
Sounds perfect. I was just looking at the website for the hostel and it is gorgeous. Are mosquitos out?
12:22 PM
You will need to go hiking on some of those beautiful trail I saw in the photos
Troy Symington 12:24 PM
As far as I've seen there have been 0 mosquitos (I think it might be a little too cold). It got a lot colder once the sun set. Tomorrow we're going to go hiking around for most of the day. That's more or less the entiretly of our plans, because the trains around here are SO FREAKING EXPENSIVE!!!
Lisa Symington 12:27 PM
Ooh, sorry about the trains.... but it looks like a good place to be stuck and you can relax not having to cram another city/spot in this weekend. How long did it take to get there? another night train?
Troy Symington 12:28 PM
Yeah, it took about 5 hours by train... and it was an expensive frikken train.
Lisa Symington 12:28 PM
Who is with you?
Troy Symington 12:29 PM
Alec and Nate.
Lisa Symington 12:29 PM
Great. More geek photos
12:30 PM
Any night life in your little town?
Troy Symington 12:31 PM
Ha, we walked through it a little while ago at about 9 and I think even the pub was closed.
Lisa Symington 12:32 PM
I guess that's a NO then... Any fun people in the hostel with you?
Troy Symington 12:33 PM
We met some girls from Texas on the train to Interlaken and ran in to them later in the day and walked with them for a bit, but their hostel is back down in Interlaken so we're not sure if we'll see them again.
Lisa Symington 12:33 PM
Sounds like a quiet night then ....
Troy Symington 12:36 PM
Yup. This entire place is marketed towards adreneline junkies. The only things to do in these towns is skiing, skydiving, hiking, base jumping, mountain biking, ect. So there's absolutely no nightlife. We're getting up early to enjoy the sunshine!
Lisa Symington 12:37 PM
OK, but I can't condone base jumping.....
Troy Symington 12:37 PM
If only I had the money...
Lisa Symington 12:37 PM
It's a good thing you're poor then, haha.
Troy Symington 12:38 PM
But I'll have the money eventually and then there'll be nothing you can do to stop me! Muhahahaha!
Lisa Symington 12:40 PM
Technically, maybe... but I'll try to think of something! We are having a really gorgeous day. I guess the weather was good earlier in the week, but I missed it at work. I have all the windows open now and recently returned from walking the circle with the dogs. Now I need to go work outside.
12:41 PM
You have a good night's sleep and a fun day tomorrow. Please try to stay in touch!
Troy Symington 12:42 PM
I'll try! I love ya!
Lisa Symington 12:43 PM
Love you too!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Schnitzel
[8:43:51 AM] Troy Symington: Hey! You there?
[8:44:07 AM] Katie Symington: hi!
[8:44:16 AM] Katie Symington: What's up bud?
[8:44:22 AM] Katie Symington: I hear you are back in Firenze!
[8:44:49 AM] Troy Symington: Yup got back yesterday (and had to go to school today... which sucked).
[8:45:04 AM] Troy Symington: By the way... I hate Picassa. Just sayin'
[8:45:59 AM] Katie Symington: lol me tambien. porque?
[8:46:57 AM] Troy Symington: Because I accidently deleted these two pictures and now I can't get them back into the folder!
[8:47:11 AM] Troy Symington: Plus you know... everything else that is wrong with it!
[8:47:52 AM] Katie Symington: hee. poor boy!
[8:47:59 AM] Katie Symington: how was your first day of school--again?
[8:48:46 AM] Troy Symington: Fine. Nothing to special happened. In Physical Anthro we're learning about primates and in Italian we pretty much talked the whole class about our spring breaks.
[8:56:14 AM] Troy Symington: You there?
[9:16:01 AM] Katie Symington: oops
[9:16:03 AM] Katie Symington: sorry!
[9:16:18 AM] Katie Symington: I forgot I was talking with youi and shut the computer to have breakfast with nick!
[9:16:41 AM] Troy Symington: Way to ignore the brother you haven't spoken to in days!
[9:16:58 AM] Katie Symington: I'm SORRY! I forgot I had a brother, because he never skypes me!
[9:17:01 AM] Katie Symington: :O
[9:17:34 AM] Katie Symington: plus, you know, eggs. they're distracting.
[9:17:46 AM] Troy Symington: Not. My. Fault.
[9:17:54 AM] Katie Symington: Sounds like you had bunches of fun though!
[9:18:27 AM] Troy Symington: Of course! Did you hear all about it from Mom? I don't wanna repeat everything I already told her.
[9:18:42 AM] Katie Symington: Yes, I did. Schnitzel!
[9:18:54 AM] Katie Symington: Hmmmm, what are you missing here?
[9:18:59 AM] Katie Symington: Oh!
[9:19:10 AM] Katie Symington: Nick is trying to get into the Air Force officer program to be an engineer.
[9:19:44 AM] Troy Symington: ZOMG! That's really cool. But he'd be away from home a lot : (
[9:20:42 AM] Katie Symington: He would say I want one of these bases to work on, and they would say "We'll take that into account" and then ship him where they need him. It would be for four years after he graduates, and he'd get 3K a month before graduating just to go to school and do some stuff. But I'd go with him, bud.
[9:20:52 AM] Katie Symington: So we'd be away from home a lot :(
[9:21:07 AM] Katie Symington: We're hoping, if he does it, that he gets assigned to the Bay Area base, or even LA
[9:22:01 AM] Troy Symington: Wow. It's a lot to think about. But It sure would be an awesome experience!
[9:23:00 AM] Katie Symington: It would, and having the Air Force on his resume would be extra awesome too! He's excited about the work he would be doing- research and development
[9:23:02 AM] Katie Symington: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1848568622/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d1_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1YXGA4F0P2M3HNX51KPM&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846
[9:23:58 AM] Troy Symington: Omg... why is there a book?
[9:24:07 AM] Katie Symington: I know right?!
[9:24:10 AM] Katie Symington: nph blogged it!
[9:24:52 AM] Troy Symington: Huh! Speaking of NPH I watched a couple more How i Met Your Mother's today!
[9:25:32 AM] Katie Symington: yay!
[9:25:33 AM] Katie Symington: did you see the latest one?
[9:25:37 AM] Katie Symington: with barney's dad?
[9:25:41 AM] Katie Symington: it was sad
[9:26:56 AM] Troy Symington: Yup. They started addressing slightly more... sobering issues in that one. But still funny!
[9:27:10 AM] Katie Symington: indeedy!
[9:29:55 AM] Troy Symington: Sooooo.... how's school
[9:29:56 AM] Troy Symington: ?
[9:30:21 AM] Katie Symington: meh. I leave in an hour and have to take two quizzes beforehand and print out a research proposal that i worked on for two hours last night with my group
[9:30:34 AM] Katie Symington: and another project is due tonight
[9:30:37 AM] Katie Symington: it's okay
[9:30:49 AM] Katie Symington: OOOOH OOOOH OOOH TROY I BEAT NICK AT CHESS LAST NIGHT!
[9:31:46 AM] Troy Symington: I'm happy for you...
[9:32:04 AM] Katie Symington: ME TOOOOO
[9:32:11 AM] Katie Symington: He always beats me! And I beat him! woohoo!
[9:32:14 AM] Katie Symington: :D
[9:32:34 AM] Katie Symington: gah, i'm tired.
[9:34:01 AM] Troy Symington: Ha, YOU'RE tired? I'm the one who woke up at 5:00 yesterday morning (after daylight savings so it was really 4) in order to catch a train for a 10 hour train ride!
[9:34:12 AM] Katie Symington: eeeew that is sucky!
[9:34:19 AM] Katie Symington: ten hours! were the seats comfy?
[9:34:25 AM] Katie Symington: was it like the hogwarts train with food and stuff?
[9:37:16 AM] Troy Symington: Well, there were two change-overs, so 3 trains in totall. The first one in Austria was really nice!
[9:37:30 AM] Katie Symington: Austria! You were in Austria!
[9:37:35 AM] Katie Symington: hey where are the pics?
[9:39:47 AM] Troy Symington: I'm posting them right now. Remember how I was being pissed off at Picassa? This is why.
[9:46:05 AM] Katie Symington: lol pooooooor boy
[9:46:55 AM] Troy Symington: They're being uploaded as we speak, so you should be able to see them in a few minutes.
[9:47:33 AM] Katie Symington: excellent!
[9:48:11 AM] Katie Symington: stupid websitesr for quizzes suck
[9:48:54 AM] Troy Symington: Websitesr is a word now?
[9:49:00 AM] Katie Symington: shaddup ;)
[9:50:04 AM] Troy Symington: Hehe. Heeeey... websites for quizzes? Katie, are you trying to cheat? Do I need to fly back home and give you a talking to?
[9:50:25 AM] Katie Symington: lol
[9:50:49 AM] Katie Symington: It is the textbook publisher's website with online quizzes for you to take, and we turn in our quizzes in class
[9:52:06 AM] Troy Symington: Ohhhhhhhh. I suppose that's ok then : )
[9:52:11 AM] Katie Symington: though I do cheat.
[9:52:35 AM] Katie Symington: You can take it as many times as you want and they give you the answer if you get it wrong! So I just click random answers, copy the correct ones, and then redo it!
[9:52:46 AM] Katie Symington: ....which is BAD, Troy, so don't do it.
[9:54:01 AM] Troy Symington: Why, I would never! How dare you dirty my good name with such a presumptuous accussation!
[9:54:14 AM] Katie Symington: accusations?
[9:54:19 AM] Katie Symington: acussassasttssions!
[9:54:32 AM] Katie Symington: How dare you accuse me of accusseing you!
[9:55:53 AM] Katie Symington: yay, my research quiz finally let me on the website! phew!
[9:57:36 AM] Troy Symington: How dare you acccuuuuusse me of such a bourgeois act as missspelling thngs!
[9:59:28 AM] Katie Symington: ooooooh good word! And your flagrent mispelings are forceing my braine to stagnat!
[10:00:12 AM] Troy Symington: Nuh uh!
[10:01:34 AM] Katie Symington: uhhuh!
[10:01:42 AM] Katie Symington: lol just like emperor's new groove!
[10:01:58 AM] Katie Symington: nuhuh uhhuh nuhuh uhhuh nuhuh uhhuh
[10:02:02 AM] Katie Symington: uhuh!
[10:02:36 AM] Troy Symington: Ha, I haven't seen that movie in forever!
[10:02:43 AM] Katie Symington: I love it.
[10:02:54 AM] Katie Symington: Carden has it, but I never can stay to watch the whole thing! Drives me nuts.
[10:02:58 AM] Katie Symington: Someday I'll own it.
[10:02:59 AM] Katie Symington: ;)
[10:03:15 AM] Katie Symington: Anyhoo mr, I gotta get going. I have to get ready and get my stuff organized and leave in a half hour
[10:03:44 AM] Katie Symington: Oh wait!
[10:03:52 AM] Troy Symington: Okay, you have a good day at school and whatnot.
[10:03:54 AM] Katie Symington: How are you doing your taxes? they're due April 15th
[10:04:05 AM] Katie Symington: and you sleep well
[10:04:14 AM] Troy Symington: ...Dad's doing them for me.
[10:04:19 AM] Katie Symington: lucky guy!
[10:04:25 AM] Troy Symington: I know right1
[10:04:27 AM] Troy Symington: ?
[10:04:33 AM] Katie Symington: Okay,
[10:04:39 AM] Katie Symington: ....eurgh, that was a bad misspellllling
[10:04:41 AM] Katie Symington: 1@!
[10:04:46 AM] Katie Symington: ;)
[10:04:59 AM] Katie Symington: ninight buddy!
[10:05:13 AM] Troy Symington: Don't make fun of me! My finger slipped and once you hit enter there's no going back!
[10:05:16 AM] Troy Symington: Love ya!
[10:05:26 AM] Katie Symington: Love ya too! :D (misspelllere)
[10:05:34 AM] Katie Symington: adios!
[10:05:39 AM] Troy Symington: Ciao!
[8:44:07 AM] Katie Symington: hi!
[8:44:16 AM] Katie Symington: What's up bud?
[8:44:22 AM] Katie Symington: I hear you are back in Firenze!
[8:44:49 AM] Troy Symington: Yup got back yesterday (and had to go to school today... which sucked).
[8:45:04 AM] Troy Symington: By the way... I hate Picassa. Just sayin'
[8:45:59 AM] Katie Symington: lol me tambien. porque?
[8:46:57 AM] Troy Symington: Because I accidently deleted these two pictures and now I can't get them back into the folder!
[8:47:11 AM] Troy Symington: Plus you know... everything else that is wrong with it!
[8:47:52 AM] Katie Symington: hee. poor boy!
[8:47:59 AM] Katie Symington: how was your first day of school--again?
[8:48:46 AM] Troy Symington: Fine. Nothing to special happened. In Physical Anthro we're learning about primates and in Italian we pretty much talked the whole class about our spring breaks.
[8:56:14 AM] Troy Symington: You there?
[9:16:01 AM] Katie Symington: oops
[9:16:03 AM] Katie Symington: sorry!
[9:16:18 AM] Katie Symington: I forgot I was talking with youi and shut the computer to have breakfast with nick!
[9:16:41 AM] Troy Symington: Way to ignore the brother you haven't spoken to in days!
[9:16:58 AM] Katie Symington: I'm SORRY! I forgot I had a brother, because he never skypes me!
[9:17:01 AM] Katie Symington: :O
[9:17:34 AM] Katie Symington: plus, you know, eggs. they're distracting.
[9:17:46 AM] Troy Symington: Not. My. Fault.
[9:17:54 AM] Katie Symington: Sounds like you had bunches of fun though!
[9:18:27 AM] Troy Symington: Of course! Did you hear all about it from Mom? I don't wanna repeat everything I already told her.
[9:18:42 AM] Katie Symington: Yes, I did. Schnitzel!
[9:18:54 AM] Katie Symington: Hmmmm, what are you missing here?
[9:18:59 AM] Katie Symington: Oh!
[9:19:10 AM] Katie Symington: Nick is trying to get into the Air Force officer program to be an engineer.
[9:19:44 AM] Troy Symington: ZOMG! That's really cool. But he'd be away from home a lot : (
[9:20:42 AM] Katie Symington: He would say I want one of these bases to work on, and they would say "We'll take that into account" and then ship him where they need him. It would be for four years after he graduates, and he'd get 3K a month before graduating just to go to school and do some stuff. But I'd go with him, bud.
[9:20:52 AM] Katie Symington: So we'd be away from home a lot :(
[9:21:07 AM] Katie Symington: We're hoping, if he does it, that he gets assigned to the Bay Area base, or even LA
[9:22:01 AM] Troy Symington: Wow. It's a lot to think about. But It sure would be an awesome experience!
[9:23:00 AM] Katie Symington: It would, and having the Air Force on his resume would be extra awesome too! He's excited about the work he would be doing- research and development
[9:23:02 AM] Katie Symington: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1848568622/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d1_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1YXGA4F0P2M3HNX51KPM&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846
[9:23:58 AM] Troy Symington: Omg... why is there a book?
[9:24:07 AM] Katie Symington: I know right?!
[9:24:10 AM] Katie Symington: nph blogged it!
[9:24:52 AM] Troy Symington: Huh! Speaking of NPH I watched a couple more How i Met Your Mother's today!
[9:25:32 AM] Katie Symington: yay!
[9:25:33 AM] Katie Symington: did you see the latest one?
[9:25:37 AM] Katie Symington: with barney's dad?
[9:25:41 AM] Katie Symington: it was sad
[9:26:56 AM] Troy Symington: Yup. They started addressing slightly more... sobering issues in that one. But still funny!
[9:27:10 AM] Katie Symington: indeedy!
[9:29:55 AM] Troy Symington: Sooooo.... how's school
[9:29:56 AM] Troy Symington: ?
[9:30:21 AM] Katie Symington: meh. I leave in an hour and have to take two quizzes beforehand and print out a research proposal that i worked on for two hours last night with my group
[9:30:34 AM] Katie Symington: and another project is due tonight
[9:30:37 AM] Katie Symington: it's okay
[9:30:49 AM] Katie Symington: OOOOH OOOOH OOOH TROY I BEAT NICK AT CHESS LAST NIGHT!
[9:31:46 AM] Troy Symington: I'm happy for you...
[9:32:04 AM] Katie Symington: ME TOOOOO
[9:32:11 AM] Katie Symington: He always beats me! And I beat him! woohoo!
[9:32:14 AM] Katie Symington: :D
[9:32:34 AM] Katie Symington: gah, i'm tired.
[9:34:01 AM] Troy Symington: Ha, YOU'RE tired? I'm the one who woke up at 5:00 yesterday morning (after daylight savings so it was really 4) in order to catch a train for a 10 hour train ride!
[9:34:12 AM] Katie Symington: eeeew that is sucky!
[9:34:19 AM] Katie Symington: ten hours! were the seats comfy?
[9:34:25 AM] Katie Symington: was it like the hogwarts train with food and stuff?
[9:37:16 AM] Troy Symington: Well, there were two change-overs, so 3 trains in totall. The first one in Austria was really nice!
[9:37:30 AM] Katie Symington: Austria! You were in Austria!
[9:37:35 AM] Katie Symington: hey where are the pics?
[9:39:47 AM] Troy Symington: I'm posting them right now. Remember how I was being pissed off at Picassa? This is why.
[9:46:05 AM] Katie Symington: lol pooooooor boy
[9:46:55 AM] Troy Symington: They're being uploaded as we speak, so you should be able to see them in a few minutes.
[9:47:33 AM] Katie Symington: excellent!
[9:48:11 AM] Katie Symington: stupid websitesr for quizzes suck
[9:48:54 AM] Troy Symington: Websitesr is a word now?
[9:49:00 AM] Katie Symington: shaddup ;)
[9:50:04 AM] Troy Symington: Hehe. Heeeey... websites for quizzes? Katie, are you trying to cheat? Do I need to fly back home and give you a talking to?
[9:50:25 AM] Katie Symington: lol
[9:50:49 AM] Katie Symington: It is the textbook publisher's website with online quizzes for you to take, and we turn in our quizzes in class
[9:52:06 AM] Troy Symington: Ohhhhhhhh. I suppose that's ok then : )
[9:52:11 AM] Katie Symington: though I do cheat.
[9:52:35 AM] Katie Symington: You can take it as many times as you want and they give you the answer if you get it wrong! So I just click random answers, copy the correct ones, and then redo it!
[9:52:46 AM] Katie Symington: ....which is BAD, Troy, so don't do it.
[9:54:01 AM] Troy Symington: Why, I would never! How dare you dirty my good name with such a presumptuous accussation!
[9:54:14 AM] Katie Symington: accusations?
[9:54:19 AM] Katie Symington: acussassasttssions!
[9:54:32 AM] Katie Symington: How dare you accuse me of accusseing you!
[9:55:53 AM] Katie Symington: yay, my research quiz finally let me on the website! phew!
[9:57:36 AM] Troy Symington: How dare you acccuuuuusse me of such a bourgeois act as missspelling thngs!
[9:59:28 AM] Katie Symington: ooooooh good word! And your flagrent mispelings are forceing my braine to stagnat!
[10:00:12 AM] Troy Symington: Nuh uh!
[10:01:34 AM] Katie Symington: uhhuh!
[10:01:42 AM] Katie Symington: lol just like emperor's new groove!
[10:01:58 AM] Katie Symington: nuhuh uhhuh nuhuh uhhuh nuhuh uhhuh
[10:02:02 AM] Katie Symington: uhuh!
[10:02:36 AM] Troy Symington: Ha, I haven't seen that movie in forever!
[10:02:43 AM] Katie Symington: I love it.
[10:02:54 AM] Katie Symington: Carden has it, but I never can stay to watch the whole thing! Drives me nuts.
[10:02:58 AM] Katie Symington: Someday I'll own it.
[10:02:59 AM] Katie Symington: ;)
[10:03:15 AM] Katie Symington: Anyhoo mr, I gotta get going. I have to get ready and get my stuff organized and leave in a half hour
[10:03:44 AM] Katie Symington: Oh wait!
[10:03:52 AM] Troy Symington: Okay, you have a good day at school and whatnot.
[10:03:54 AM] Katie Symington: How are you doing your taxes? they're due April 15th
[10:04:05 AM] Katie Symington: and you sleep well
[10:04:14 AM] Troy Symington: ...Dad's doing them for me.
[10:04:19 AM] Katie Symington: lucky guy!
[10:04:25 AM] Troy Symington: I know right1
[10:04:27 AM] Troy Symington: ?
[10:04:33 AM] Katie Symington: Okay,
[10:04:39 AM] Katie Symington: ....eurgh, that was a bad misspellllling
[10:04:41 AM] Katie Symington: 1@!
[10:04:46 AM] Katie Symington: ;)
[10:04:59 AM] Katie Symington: ninight buddy!
[10:05:13 AM] Troy Symington: Don't make fun of me! My finger slipped and once you hit enter there's no going back!
[10:05:16 AM] Troy Symington: Love ya!
[10:05:26 AM] Katie Symington: Love ya too! :D (misspelllere)
[10:05:34 AM] Katie Symington: adios!
[10:05:39 AM] Troy Symington: Ciao!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Catching Up
[12:29:12 PM] Katie Symington: troy-o!
[12:29:18 PM] Katie Symington: What you up to?
[12:31:14 PM] Troy Symington: I'm trying to find mom and dad! They're not contacting me! I just knocked on their hotel room door for like five minutes! I just got back home (luckily their hotel is like 5 minutes away).
[12:31:35 PM] Katie Symington: Whoa, are they in Florence now?
[12:32:01 PM] Katie Symington: You could always ask the hotel front office about them, maybe they saw them go out or they asked for information about where to go.
[12:32:37 PM] Troy Symington: Yeah, they arrived at like 5. They sent me a facebook message saying that they're here, but I didn't get back from Napoli until 8.
[12:33:01 PM] Katie Symington: what time is it now?
[12:33:06 PM] Katie Symington: ah 9:30?
[12:33:11 PM] Troy Symington: yup
[12:33:13 PM] Katie Symington: they must be exploring!
[12:33:17 PM] Katie Symington: Do they know where to find you?
[12:33:40 PM] Troy Symington: Nope. Because they won't contact me. I don't think that they even know I'm back in the city.
[12:35:21 PM] Katie Symington: oh no!
[12:35:43 PM] Katie Symington: Well, perhaps you could slip a note under their door telling them you are here, and to come by and visit you! Give them your schedule for tomorrow or something.
[12:36:18 PM] Troy Symington: I'm already back home and I've sent them a fb message.
[12:37:27 PM] Katie Symington: Well there you go!
[12:37:40 PM] Katie Symington: So how are you buddy? Now was Napoli?
[12:37:44 PM] Katie Symington: *How
[12:39:44 PM] Troy Symington: Napoli was awesome! The city itself was kinda disgusting and totally filled with trash, but there were some really cool sights and Pompeii was awesome!
[12:40:13 PM] Katie Symington: Pompeii! How exciting, what did you do there?
[12:42:18 PM] Troy Symington: We explored the ruins! There's soooo many ruins but alot of it was blocked off unless your part of a tour and there wasn't too much info available there. There was more in the Museo di Archeological Nazionale in Napoli. Today we saw La Capella Sansavero (a mausoleum/museum) which had the really, really famous Veiled Christ statue and omg... my mind was blown.
[12:42:53 PM] Katie Symington: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
[12:43:15 PM] Katie Symington: I sure hope that there are some pictures for you to put up! I'd love to see what you saw.
[12:44:09 PM] Troy Symington: Did you send me this link purely because I typed "omg"?
[12:44:19 PM] Katie Symington: because you typed "alot"
[12:44:39 PM] Katie Symington: it's "a lot" and this is a hilarious blogger. you must read it.
[12:46:23 PM] Troy Symington: One type-o and you find this necessary? You're a silly face.
[12:46:58 PM] Katie Symington: She is the most freaking hilarious blogger ever, Troy, and knowing about the existence of the Alot is necessary!
[12:47:08 PM] Katie Symington: Anyhoo. What are you doing now?
[12:50:15 PM] Troy Symington: Talking to you while attempting to do homework. Oh! I typed on an Italian keyboard for the first time yesterday, and it was reeeeaaaally weird. The apostrophes and left shift key are TOTALLY in the wrong spot, and there's a whole different button which is like a shift key except it gives you a third option so it totally took me like five minutes to figure out how to use an @ symbol...
[12:50:37 PM] Katie Symington: LOL
[12:50:42 PM] Katie Symington: what hw do you have?
[12:51:50 PM] Troy Symington: Physical anthro. We just had a test the other day and I totally aced it! (which isn't saying much because all of our classes are kind easy).
[12:51:58 PM] Katie Symington: FABU!
[12:52:25 PM] Troy Symington: Katie... fabu is worse than alot.
[12:52:32 PM] Katie Symington: I'm bringin' fabu back (Yeah!)
[12:52:53 PM] Troy Symington: ...
[12:53:29 PM] Troy Symington: If I weren't 5000 miles away I would bop you on the head.
[12:53:29 PM] Katie Symington: Anyhoo. I just got back from Nick's parent's, it's his mom's b-day and we had blueberry pancakes over there, and then cleaned the garage and I trimmed their dog's toenails and we came back home and Nick left for Sac
[12:53:50 PM] Katie Symington: and last night we were all at his grandparents to celebrate three b-days intheir family and I had PRIME RIB and delicious foods and held a 4 month old baby boy
[12:53:56 PM] Katie Symington: and now I have a ton of hw and cleaning adn stuff to do
[12:54:11 PM] Katie Symington: and I'm fixing myf ish tank. It is covered in algae, my fish are unhappy, and the water chemistry's off.
[12:54:19 PM] Katie Symington: and I'm about to eat crackers and avocado
[12:54:29 PM] Katie Symington: and the internets here is SLOW
[12:54:33 PM] Troy Symington: Cool! (besides the hw and cleaning). How are your classes and work?
[12:55:26 PM] Katie Symington: all bueno! I just did progress reports for all my kids which took a while, and teaching is still fun! My school classes are all good, but the projects are piling up and midterms are upon me in the next two weeks!
[12:58:45 PM] Troy Symington: Ahhhh! I know the feeling. But again, all my classes over here are pretty easy so I don't think I'm gonna hafta deal with that very much! That's awesome that you're still enjoying working there! Is it difficult to write progress reports? I don't think I'd be able to give out bad grades.
[1:00:42 PM] Katie Symington: For the younger grades it's S for Satisfactory with a few Excellents! The older grades get letter graded on their behavior, typing, projects, and overall. I can write comments if I want but I only did for a few.
[1:01:17 PM] Katie Symington: It was fun. A litle tedious at times but overall interesting to do!
[1:01:34 PM] Katie Symington: Okay, my new favorite thing is avocado on stoned wheat thins.
[1:02:24 PM] Troy Symington: That's great! (The school thing, not the avocado thing... it would be great but I don't have any right now so I'm jealous).
[1:02:44 PM] Katie Symington: heeee
[1:02:49 PM] Katie Symington: I'm about out! Very sad.
[1:03:05 PM] Troy Symington: I realized today that I totally should have asked mom and dad to bring me peanut butter.
[1:03:20 PM] Katie Symington: Is there no peanut butter in Italy?
[1:03:22 PM] Katie Symington: Weird!
[1:03:25 PM] Katie Symington: Buy peanuts and grind your own!
[1:04:26 PM] Troy Symington: There's peanut butter but it's RIDICULOUSLY expensive. My roommate Sean was asking earlier today how much it would be to ship peanut butter over from the US!
[1:11:54 PM] Katie Symington: lol wow!
[1:12:02 PM] Katie Symington: how expensive???
[1:13:00 PM] Troy Symington: Hey! Sorry but the internet quit on us for a minute there! Peanut butter is about 4.50 euro for a really tiny jar!
[1:13:11 PM] Katie Symington: Yikes a doodle!
[1:13:34 PM] Katie Symington: Guess you will just have to suffer without it. What about different types of butters--almond or a different type?
[1:14:32 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, it's kinda weird to think that you don't know this stuff! Nutella is sooooo popular over here! It's in all of the pastries and the candy bars and just about everything else!
[1:14:51 PM] Katie Symington: wow!
[1:15:02 PM] Katie Symington: but nutella is so sweet. I was thinking something similar to peanut butter. Do they have different kinds or are they as expensive?
[1:15:49 PM] Troy Symington: I haven't seen anything else. You can probably get others but I dunno.
[1:16:01 PM] Katie Symington: huh.
[1:16:10 PM] Katie Symington: Well I sure am glad I actually get to talk with you today! Usually you're all "gotta go!"
[1:16:20 PM] Katie Symington: :)
[1:16:38 PM] Katie Symington: How is the weather in Italy now? It is raining on and off today here.
[1:18:33 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, well I SHOULD be doing homework! It's warmed up in Florence over the weekend and it was mostly sunny here I guess, which is too bad because in Naples it was raining ALL day on Saturday (which made Pompeii kinda miserable because we were all totally soaked). It was sunny in Naples today though.
[1:19:03 PM] Katie Symington: Dude, how cool is it that you are just tossing out words like "Pompeii" and "Naples"??? YOU'RE IN FREAKING ITALY!!!
[1:19:46 PM] Troy Symington: I KNOW, RIGHT!!! AND WE'RE GOING TO ROME WITH MOM AND DAD NEXT WEEKEND!!!!
[1:20:21 PM] Katie Symington: AAAAIIIIEEEEEE! SOOOO COOOL!!!
[1:20:28 PM] Katie Symington: :D
[1:20:42 PM] Katie Symington: I love just tossing out, "My brother's studying abroad in Florence. Oh, and my parents just flew to Venice."
[1:20:52 PM] Katie Symington: LIKE WE'RE ALL WORLD TRAVELERS WHEE
[1:20:57 PM] Katie Symington: (Except moi)
[1:22:14 PM] Troy Symington: Well... get rich and go travelling! I'll take you to the carribean in my yacht (because in this fantasy I'm rich too)!
[1:23:38 PM] Katie Symington: Such a nice brother ;)
[1:24:12 PM] Katie Symington: The dogs say hi, btw. and Io is walking around yawning. Oz was fascinaed by the fish tank yesterday
[1:24:34 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, good. How is the remodeling coming?
[1:26:20 PM] Katie Symington: the counters are beautiful and the stove, new sink, new faucet, and dishwasher are back in. the dishwasher isn't attached yet because the floors are not put in, so we're walking on the stuff that goes under the tile. The dishwasher tries to tip over if you don't hold it up when loading it! the bathroom downstairs is totally gutted and the new shower floor/concrete bit is going in to cover the huge hole that was in the floor. the entire house is full of dust from the tile bein irpped up and it is still settling!
[1:28:59 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, wow. It's going to be so weird going home with everything totally different!
[1:30:05 PM] Katie Symington: it will look totally gorgeous! mom and dad just chose the tile for the floor--it's kind of hard to explain. It's a similar sized tile, kind of beige/brown with a bit of gray to mach the counters, and the brown to match the cabinets. It's very soothing, the design of it is kind of like sand swirled around so it's not too busy.
[1:30:52 PM] Troy Symington: Molto bene!
[1:31:14 PM] Katie Symington: Yeppers!
[1:31:33 PM] Katie Symington: Ugh totally ahve hw to do today and don't want toooo! I'm having fun researching stuff for my fish tank!
[1:32:20 PM] Troy Symington: I totally have hw to do and I want to go to sleep soon! But I can procrastinate long enough to talk to my sister.
[1:34:39 PM] Katie Symington: :)
[1:34:41 PM] Katie Symington: yay!
[1:35:00 PM] Katie Symington: It's like 10:30 now, though, right? you should probably get to work.
[1:36:12 PM] Troy Symington: Eh. The awesome thing about living with fellow college kids: you can stay up as late as you want and you get used to not having enough sleep. (Although I'm kinda sick so I probably should get some sleep).
[1:36:29 PM] Katie Symington: sick? you got a cold?
[1:37:14 PM] Troy Symington: I've been coughing so much and my throats been really sore for the past day or two. But I have some tea right now and that helps a lot.
[1:40:48 PM] Troy Symington: Yo! You there?
[1:45:57 PM] Katie Symington: sorry!
[1:45:59 PM] Katie Symington: i'm here!
[1:46:16 PM] Katie Symington: Sorry bud, got caught up readin about otocinclus'!
[1:46:21 PM] Katie Symington: what kind of tea?
[1:46:51 PM] Katie Symington: when you see mom and dad please bop them on the head for me too, because I sent them a big facebook message a few days a go and they haven't responded at all!
[1:47:31 PM] Troy Symington: They've been really bad about that! They didn't even let me know that they were alive when they got to Venice! It's green tea, it's not bad.
[1:47:44 PM] Katie Symington: me neither! just that facebook wall post!
[1:48:48 PM] Troy Symington: They would be so angry if we were doing that to them!
[1:48:53 PM] Katie Symington: i know!
[1:48:59 PM] Katie Symington: mom promised she would write me!
[1:49:18 PM] Katie Symington: omg the dogs are running on the ripped up floor and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard! so totally trimming their nails!!!
[1:49:29 PM] Troy Symington: Do it!
[1:49:39 PM] Katie Symington: ;)
[1:51:13 PM] Troy Symington: Sooo... what's on the agenda for you this week?
[1:52:06 PM] Katie Symington: monday school from 10-7 and i drive to sac from mv. tues work 9-2 then home cuz class was canceled in the evening. wed school 10-4ish. thurs work 9-5. fri work 2-5.
[1:52:29 PM] Katie Symington: i visited nanny yesterday for a few hours. i'll be calling her daily and try to visit again.
[1:52:57 PM] Troy Symington: How's she doing? I haven't talked to her at all since coming here!
[1:53:16 PM] Troy Symington: I keep meaning to send her a postcard... maybe I'll send it back with mom and dad.
[1:53:32 PM] Katie Symington: well! she had an international dinner last night at the church up the hill, she was playin cards when i got there. She would LOVE postcard! Write as much as you can on it, k?
[1:53:48 PM] Troy Symington: Will do!
[1:56:33 PM] Katie Symington: Okay bud, I need to go start laundry and get hw together. You go do hw and feel better, k? Give mom and dad a hug for me when you see them!
[1:57:37 PM] Troy Symington: If they ever contact me! Say hi to Nick and Nanny and all the animals for me! Love ya!
[12:29:18 PM] Katie Symington: What you up to?
[12:31:14 PM] Troy Symington: I'm trying to find mom and dad! They're not contacting me! I just knocked on their hotel room door for like five minutes! I just got back home (luckily their hotel is like 5 minutes away).
[12:31:35 PM] Katie Symington: Whoa, are they in Florence now?
[12:32:01 PM] Katie Symington: You could always ask the hotel front office about them, maybe they saw them go out or they asked for information about where to go.
[12:32:37 PM] Troy Symington: Yeah, they arrived at like 5. They sent me a facebook message saying that they're here, but I didn't get back from Napoli until 8.
[12:33:01 PM] Katie Symington: what time is it now?
[12:33:06 PM] Katie Symington: ah 9:30?
[12:33:11 PM] Troy Symington: yup
[12:33:13 PM] Katie Symington: they must be exploring!
[12:33:17 PM] Katie Symington: Do they know where to find you?
[12:33:40 PM] Troy Symington: Nope. Because they won't contact me. I don't think that they even know I'm back in the city.
[12:35:21 PM] Katie Symington: oh no!
[12:35:43 PM] Katie Symington: Well, perhaps you could slip a note under their door telling them you are here, and to come by and visit you! Give them your schedule for tomorrow or something.
[12:36:18 PM] Troy Symington: I'm already back home and I've sent them a fb message.
[12:37:27 PM] Katie Symington: Well there you go!
[12:37:40 PM] Katie Symington: So how are you buddy? Now was Napoli?
[12:37:44 PM] Katie Symington: *How
[12:39:44 PM] Troy Symington: Napoli was awesome! The city itself was kinda disgusting and totally filled with trash, but there were some really cool sights and Pompeii was awesome!
[12:40:13 PM] Katie Symington: Pompeii! How exciting, what did you do there?
[12:42:18 PM] Troy Symington: We explored the ruins! There's soooo many ruins but alot of it was blocked off unless your part of a tour and there wasn't too much info available there. There was more in the Museo di Archeological Nazionale in Napoli. Today we saw La Capella Sansavero (a mausoleum/museum) which had the really, really famous Veiled Christ statue and omg... my mind was blown.
[12:42:53 PM] Katie Symington: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
[12:43:15 PM] Katie Symington: I sure hope that there are some pictures for you to put up! I'd love to see what you saw.
[12:44:09 PM] Troy Symington: Did you send me this link purely because I typed "omg"?
[12:44:19 PM] Katie Symington: because you typed "alot"
[12:44:39 PM] Katie Symington: it's "a lot" and this is a hilarious blogger. you must read it.
[12:46:23 PM] Troy Symington: One type-o and you find this necessary? You're a silly face.
[12:46:58 PM] Katie Symington: She is the most freaking hilarious blogger ever, Troy, and knowing about the existence of the Alot is necessary!
[12:47:08 PM] Katie Symington: Anyhoo. What are you doing now?
[12:50:15 PM] Troy Symington: Talking to you while attempting to do homework. Oh! I typed on an Italian keyboard for the first time yesterday, and it was reeeeaaaally weird. The apostrophes and left shift key are TOTALLY in the wrong spot, and there's a whole different button which is like a shift key except it gives you a third option so it totally took me like five minutes to figure out how to use an @ symbol...
[12:50:37 PM] Katie Symington: LOL
[12:50:42 PM] Katie Symington: what hw do you have?
[12:51:50 PM] Troy Symington: Physical anthro. We just had a test the other day and I totally aced it! (which isn't saying much because all of our classes are kind easy).
[12:51:58 PM] Katie Symington: FABU!
[12:52:25 PM] Troy Symington: Katie... fabu is worse than alot.
[12:52:32 PM] Katie Symington: I'm bringin' fabu back (Yeah!)
[12:52:53 PM] Troy Symington: ...
[12:53:29 PM] Troy Symington: If I weren't 5000 miles away I would bop you on the head.
[12:53:29 PM] Katie Symington: Anyhoo. I just got back from Nick's parent's, it's his mom's b-day and we had blueberry pancakes over there, and then cleaned the garage and I trimmed their dog's toenails and we came back home and Nick left for Sac
[12:53:50 PM] Katie Symington: and last night we were all at his grandparents to celebrate three b-days intheir family and I had PRIME RIB and delicious foods and held a 4 month old baby boy
[12:53:56 PM] Katie Symington: and now I have a ton of hw and cleaning adn stuff to do
[12:54:11 PM] Katie Symington: and I'm fixing myf ish tank. It is covered in algae, my fish are unhappy, and the water chemistry's off.
[12:54:19 PM] Katie Symington: and I'm about to eat crackers and avocado
[12:54:29 PM] Katie Symington: and the internets here is SLOW
[12:54:33 PM] Troy Symington: Cool! (besides the hw and cleaning). How are your classes and work?
[12:55:26 PM] Katie Symington: all bueno! I just did progress reports for all my kids which took a while, and teaching is still fun! My school classes are all good, but the projects are piling up and midterms are upon me in the next two weeks!
[12:58:45 PM] Troy Symington: Ahhhh! I know the feeling. But again, all my classes over here are pretty easy so I don't think I'm gonna hafta deal with that very much! That's awesome that you're still enjoying working there! Is it difficult to write progress reports? I don't think I'd be able to give out bad grades.
[1:00:42 PM] Katie Symington: For the younger grades it's S for Satisfactory with a few Excellents! The older grades get letter graded on their behavior, typing, projects, and overall. I can write comments if I want but I only did for a few.
[1:01:17 PM] Katie Symington: It was fun. A litle tedious at times but overall interesting to do!
[1:01:34 PM] Katie Symington: Okay, my new favorite thing is avocado on stoned wheat thins.
[1:02:24 PM] Troy Symington: That's great! (The school thing, not the avocado thing... it would be great but I don't have any right now so I'm jealous).
[1:02:44 PM] Katie Symington: heeee
[1:02:49 PM] Katie Symington: I'm about out! Very sad.
[1:03:05 PM] Troy Symington: I realized today that I totally should have asked mom and dad to bring me peanut butter.
[1:03:20 PM] Katie Symington: Is there no peanut butter in Italy?
[1:03:22 PM] Katie Symington: Weird!
[1:03:25 PM] Katie Symington: Buy peanuts and grind your own!
[1:04:26 PM] Troy Symington: There's peanut butter but it's RIDICULOUSLY expensive. My roommate Sean was asking earlier today how much it would be to ship peanut butter over from the US!
[1:11:54 PM] Katie Symington: lol wow!
[1:12:02 PM] Katie Symington: how expensive???
[1:13:00 PM] Troy Symington: Hey! Sorry but the internet quit on us for a minute there! Peanut butter is about 4.50 euro for a really tiny jar!
[1:13:11 PM] Katie Symington: Yikes a doodle!
[1:13:34 PM] Katie Symington: Guess you will just have to suffer without it. What about different types of butters--almond or a different type?
[1:14:32 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, it's kinda weird to think that you don't know this stuff! Nutella is sooooo popular over here! It's in all of the pastries and the candy bars and just about everything else!
[1:14:51 PM] Katie Symington: wow!
[1:15:02 PM] Katie Symington: but nutella is so sweet. I was thinking something similar to peanut butter. Do they have different kinds or are they as expensive?
[1:15:49 PM] Troy Symington: I haven't seen anything else. You can probably get others but I dunno.
[1:16:01 PM] Katie Symington: huh.
[1:16:10 PM] Katie Symington: Well I sure am glad I actually get to talk with you today! Usually you're all "gotta go!"
[1:16:20 PM] Katie Symington: :)
[1:16:38 PM] Katie Symington: How is the weather in Italy now? It is raining on and off today here.
[1:18:33 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, well I SHOULD be doing homework! It's warmed up in Florence over the weekend and it was mostly sunny here I guess, which is too bad because in Naples it was raining ALL day on Saturday (which made Pompeii kinda miserable because we were all totally soaked). It was sunny in Naples today though.
[1:19:03 PM] Katie Symington: Dude, how cool is it that you are just tossing out words like "Pompeii" and "Naples"??? YOU'RE IN FREAKING ITALY!!!
[1:19:46 PM] Troy Symington: I KNOW, RIGHT!!! AND WE'RE GOING TO ROME WITH MOM AND DAD NEXT WEEKEND!!!!
[1:20:21 PM] Katie Symington: AAAAIIIIEEEEEE! SOOOO COOOL!!!
[1:20:28 PM] Katie Symington: :D
[1:20:42 PM] Katie Symington: I love just tossing out, "My brother's studying abroad in Florence. Oh, and my parents just flew to Venice."
[1:20:52 PM] Katie Symington: LIKE WE'RE ALL WORLD TRAVELERS WHEE
[1:20:57 PM] Katie Symington: (Except moi)
[1:22:14 PM] Troy Symington: Well... get rich and go travelling! I'll take you to the carribean in my yacht (because in this fantasy I'm rich too)!
[1:23:38 PM] Katie Symington: Such a nice brother ;)
[1:24:12 PM] Katie Symington: The dogs say hi, btw. and Io is walking around yawning. Oz was fascinaed by the fish tank yesterday
[1:24:34 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, good. How is the remodeling coming?
[1:26:20 PM] Katie Symington: the counters are beautiful and the stove, new sink, new faucet, and dishwasher are back in. the dishwasher isn't attached yet because the floors are not put in, so we're walking on the stuff that goes under the tile. The dishwasher tries to tip over if you don't hold it up when loading it! the bathroom downstairs is totally gutted and the new shower floor/concrete bit is going in to cover the huge hole that was in the floor. the entire house is full of dust from the tile bein irpped up and it is still settling!
[1:28:59 PM] Troy Symington: Ha, wow. It's going to be so weird going home with everything totally different!
[1:30:05 PM] Katie Symington: it will look totally gorgeous! mom and dad just chose the tile for the floor--it's kind of hard to explain. It's a similar sized tile, kind of beige/brown with a bit of gray to mach the counters, and the brown to match the cabinets. It's very soothing, the design of it is kind of like sand swirled around so it's not too busy.
[1:30:52 PM] Troy Symington: Molto bene!
[1:31:14 PM] Katie Symington: Yeppers!
[1:31:33 PM] Katie Symington: Ugh totally ahve hw to do today and don't want toooo! I'm having fun researching stuff for my fish tank!
[1:32:20 PM] Troy Symington: I totally have hw to do and I want to go to sleep soon! But I can procrastinate long enough to talk to my sister.
[1:34:39 PM] Katie Symington: :)
[1:34:41 PM] Katie Symington: yay!
[1:35:00 PM] Katie Symington: It's like 10:30 now, though, right? you should probably get to work.
[1:36:12 PM] Troy Symington: Eh. The awesome thing about living with fellow college kids: you can stay up as late as you want and you get used to not having enough sleep. (Although I'm kinda sick so I probably should get some sleep).
[1:36:29 PM] Katie Symington: sick? you got a cold?
[1:37:14 PM] Troy Symington: I've been coughing so much and my throats been really sore for the past day or two. But I have some tea right now and that helps a lot.
[1:40:48 PM] Troy Symington: Yo! You there?
[1:45:57 PM] Katie Symington: sorry!
[1:45:59 PM] Katie Symington: i'm here!
[1:46:16 PM] Katie Symington: Sorry bud, got caught up readin about otocinclus'!
[1:46:21 PM] Katie Symington: what kind of tea?
[1:46:51 PM] Katie Symington: when you see mom and dad please bop them on the head for me too, because I sent them a big facebook message a few days a go and they haven't responded at all!
[1:47:31 PM] Troy Symington: They've been really bad about that! They didn't even let me know that they were alive when they got to Venice! It's green tea, it's not bad.
[1:47:44 PM] Katie Symington: me neither! just that facebook wall post!
[1:48:48 PM] Troy Symington: They would be so angry if we were doing that to them!
[1:48:53 PM] Katie Symington: i know!
[1:48:59 PM] Katie Symington: mom promised she would write me!
[1:49:18 PM] Katie Symington: omg the dogs are running on the ripped up floor and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard! so totally trimming their nails!!!
[1:49:29 PM] Troy Symington: Do it!
[1:49:39 PM] Katie Symington: ;)
[1:51:13 PM] Troy Symington: Sooo... what's on the agenda for you this week?
[1:52:06 PM] Katie Symington: monday school from 10-7 and i drive to sac from mv. tues work 9-2 then home cuz class was canceled in the evening. wed school 10-4ish. thurs work 9-5. fri work 2-5.
[1:52:29 PM] Katie Symington: i visited nanny yesterday for a few hours. i'll be calling her daily and try to visit again.
[1:52:57 PM] Troy Symington: How's she doing? I haven't talked to her at all since coming here!
[1:53:16 PM] Troy Symington: I keep meaning to send her a postcard... maybe I'll send it back with mom and dad.
[1:53:32 PM] Katie Symington: well! she had an international dinner last night at the church up the hill, she was playin cards when i got there. She would LOVE postcard! Write as much as you can on it, k?
[1:53:48 PM] Troy Symington: Will do!
[1:56:33 PM] Katie Symington: Okay bud, I need to go start laundry and get hw together. You go do hw and feel better, k? Give mom and dad a hug for me when you see them!
[1:57:37 PM] Troy Symington: If they ever contact me! Say hi to Nick and Nanny and all the animals for me! Love ya!
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