October 31

Happy Halloween!  Tomorrow will be All Saints' Day, the holiday for which the I'm working so much.  It will also be a very tiring day, because it is 4:27 a.m. and I am still awake!  I went out with Lea tonight, and we had a good time.  We didn't get to eat dinner until 10 p.m. thanks to our various responsibilities at home.  We finished our dinner with special Halloween treats made by Lea -- a fruit cocktail, literally, and a mini muffin filled with Kinder!

Then we scurried off to our favorite bar in Testaccio before the metro closed.  We were on nearly the last train of the night, accompanied by scores of very loud soccer fans. I took a video of them but I'm having trouble uploading it.  While we were waiting for that train, I took a picture of my skull and crossbones fingernails, also compliments of Lea.  She'd gotten these festive nail adhesives especially for tonight, and since they were a little too long, she gave me the remainder of each one to wear as a sort of French tips.  They're really cool because they glow in the dark (but I didn't really get to see that until I got home to the pitch-dark apartment.

We saw several Halloween costumes, which was fun because relatively speaking it's not a very popular holiday here.  At the end of the night we had to take the night bus back, which can take a ridiculously long time...and so we got back very late.  It was so nice to go out and spend time with other people my age.  So nice.  So ni... *zzzzzzz*

Good night!