Beans, beans, the wonderful fruit...

...The more you eat them, the more you break out in hives....
Yes, that’s right folks. I have developed a severe allergy to beans. I thought that I got hives because of the red wine, but it would seem that is not the case. That night at dinner we had some sort of lasagna type dish with beans, and last night we had a soup with beans in it. Last night was the third time and the restaurant has now been warned not to serve beans to me again. It would also seem that I have adverse reactions to benadryl, since 14 hours after i took it, I was still completely out of it and unable to sit up. Also my arms and legs went sorta numb. so...not doing that again

Anyway
Julia is stepping up our homework load in lieu of the fact that the art students have mountains of homework each day. I think she was feeling a little guilty for giving us little homework. So now we have to write a poem a day and do 20 minutes of freewriting a day on top of whatever else we had. Which is still not a huge amount of homework, so it's ok.

Would you like to know what has been filling our free time lately? Well, let me tell you.
VAMPIRES!
It started with our viewing of Twilight, which for those of you who don't know, is a terrible vampire movie that is grossly popular. We watched it, made fun of it, and then watched it again. It was great. Then Carissa stumbled upon a terrific new show called The Vampire Diaries...which makes Twilight look like an Oscar winner for best picture. It's terrible, but also slightly addicting...so we've been watching it.
Other than that, nothing much is new around here. Yesterday Kate, Carissa, Garrett and I went to the travel agent and booked our tickets to Pisa, where we'll be spending the weekend. Going there was a pretty random decision, and honestly I don't think there's anything there except the leaning tower...but if anyone knows of other attractions, let me know. At any rate, we'll see the tower, ride some mopeds, eat some pizza and have a good time.