Random Wednesday
Because Friday is Blogfest time – so writer's stuff – I'm doing the random post today for a couple of reasons. First, Roma made the world news for the snow. We hadn't seen that much since Jan.6, 1985, when it lasted for a whole week or something. At the time I didn't work and was glad to skip school (well, Illustration course, first year. I made it to the second and didn't pass. Continued without their very expensive diploma, LOL).
Jan.6 - 1985
This year it was sort of harder. I already have problems with DayJob without adding the snow! 
For the whole weekend there was no bus in the suburb, but Monday morning it was there again. Except it was all quite icy, so I didn't walk to the next stop because I was afraid of ice. I took 150 pictures or something like that, thanks to digital cameras (I was doing photography in 1985, so I had a b&w roll in the camera and did only the few in that 24 or 36 film), walked around, found one supermarket open (but empty of bread and fresh vegetables, luckily that wasn't what I was looking for) and kept my extra electric heater on all day.
Feb.4 - 2012
I checked at my parents' the old photo albums, they have 3 pics of the snow in Roma 12 Feb.1969 and it wasn't this bad either. In 2010 (February) it lasted two hours (I was home sick, I noticed because I saw the pictures on Facebook from friends and looked out of the window – but, like I said, it lasted two hours).
On Facebook this weekend I found this funny image of Roma south turned into a ski resort… my house is somewhere between the Laurentina and Ardeatina skilifts! 
Anyway, this was another reason to tell DayJob that I can't drive to work, neither in the snow nor without, so they'll leave me somewhere I can reach by bus. I had to go to the center to talk to Human Resources yesterday, so I saw what was left of snow on the Coliseum – not much. But I think the Fori Imperiali were still closed as the snow hadn't been cleaned out. I also had a look at Fontana di Trevi, and wondered if it was frozen during the weekend – it wasn't yesterday! And the snow was almost gone on Via del Corso and the little streets around it.
Before the snow I got my UPS parcels, one from Lulu and one from Amazon. The Lulu one had SKYBAND and I had to redo Omnibus 2 because I skipped a page and duplicated another. Sigh. So I've re-ordered it, sorry to keep my only reader waiting. Again, I don't know if I'll be able to have the download version as well, and I didn't have time to format for Kindle and Nook to put on DriveThruComics either – I was busy writing, LOL!
The Amazon parcel had Habibi – another door-stopper graphic novel in hardback (which made me dream of a hardback version of the final SKYBAND…) and even if Craig Thompson is not as good as Terry Moore or Colleen Doran, his story is wonderful, mixing Bible and Quran and Arabian nights and… well, I'm glad I bought it.
And then there was Luck by Chance, a glimpse at Bollywood from an insider. This is the first movie from the twins of Zindagi, and it's a curiosity about the Indian movie industry, with some superstars playing themselves and the definition of Bollywood Hero (meh, no citations on IMDB, sigh. But you can check the trivia). So if you're curious about Bollywood and want to see one of those movie-inside-the-movie things, you might miss some citations (just like I did), but it's fun. Although the second movie (Zindagi…) is better! But the writer-director applied the well-known rule of "write what you know" to her first movie! 
