From a sickbed

Due to a lot of stress lately I've fallen ill. Just the usual fever, aching body and exhaustion. So here I lie, in my bed, thinking about everything and nothing. About my two papers that need to be written, about the future and the past, about everything I want in life...the list is endless.

While sick I tend to read blogposts from my friends to cheer me up, and it didn't fail (thanks Steven).
And yes, you we're absolutely right about the artist Ireland has picked as this years contestant for Eurovision...it was horrid! So to prevent myself from going totally insane, I had to find some music to clean out the sound from hell. And I found my peace in the music by Antonio Vivaldi...

 

So while listening to this I will see if I can get something done on the paper about Italian identity...Vivaldi was after all an Italian...

Or maybe I should go for something more closely linked to the actual events from Italian history, and pick "Tosca" by Puccini?

Here's "Tre Sbirri una Carrozza" (Te Deum) sung by the antagonist of the story; Scarpia:

 

 Let's see if music can help me to get better...fingers crossed