Ah, Italia!

So I am sitting in the airport in Milan - isn't wireless great? Local time is 10am-ish. I have never been to Milan and despite having a very long layover here (three+ hours), I will have to come back another time to see the sites. It's just not long enough to actually go into the city and check it out. Anyway, Italian people are beautiful and the language is like music. I am tempted to get a panini, just to relive my memories of all the little tomato-mozzarella sandwiches I ate last summer traveilng around Italy. But I brought my own sandwich - szendvics, actually - and I am looking forward to eating it soon!

I inadvertantly breached security at the airport here. Nothing major - no alarms, no shutting down the terminal in search of me! - but a breach nonetheless. Basically, I went through the "transit" security line for people transferring to other flights and then headed out the doors to passport control. Well, nobody told me not to go there. And everywhere I go in the world there is a different procedure so who knew that here in Milan I did not need to stop at passport control? So the passport guy tells me to go back to the transit area and head to my gate. So, I went back through the doors and started heading to the gate area when a very tall security guy started calling to someone (and then I figured it was me), "Signora! Signora!" I turned around and he jabbered something in Italian at me. Seeing the puzzled look on my face he said in English, "Where did you just come from? Did you skip this security line?" And the nearest guard said, "No, she went through the line." think this guy was protecting his ass since he was the one at the door through which I entered. I tried to explain what happened and offered to go through the line again if he wanted me to but the guy seemed so irritated, he just let me go. Well, I feel safer after that, don't you?

I woke up at 430am today to leave for the airport by 5. We didn't go to sleep until after midnight because we went to dinner at Akos and Csilla's place (they are Peter's best friends in Budapest and they have a preciously adorable little son) and then I needed to pack when we got home. We did some laundry, too, but you know...without a real dryer, I didn't wash too many of my clothes! But we did an extra 15 minutes of super spin and hung them up and by this morning, though they weren't super dry, they were dry enough to pack without worring about mold.


MYRIAD
This is one of the most misused words in the English language. I actually wish people wouldn't use it at all because they seem not to ever really use it correctly. The other word most misused is comprise, but that's another entry for another time. Anyway, whenever people are using the word myriad, they have a need to add the article, "a," and the preposition, "of." So, for example, "Karel Rove committed a myriad of offenses for which he should be prosecuted." But this is, in fact, not correct English. Why don't people know this? The correct way to say this is, "Karl Rove committed myriad offenses for which he should be prosecuted." There is no myriad of things. The preposition "of" never comes between myriad and the next word. I want people to know this. Incidentally, it's the same with comprise. Things aren't comprised of things. They comprise things. But this, I know, is a losing battle. It may not be too late for myriad, though. Join me.