Lost Glamour

Today I realized that the spectacle of being in Rome has finally eluded me. Now I just want to be able to accomplish a normal task without floundering maddly. Prime Example--today I thought I would be smart and save money by making my own sandwich. Ok, make a lunch for under 3 euro. Well it starts off with me buying bread stuffed with steamed cabbage for 1.80 euro. Not a great start, for it not only tastes bad, but half my budget is spent on bread. Ok now the meat. I end up with spicy pork jerky for a bargain 4.50 euro. Italian is hard enough, but ordering food in Italian metric is near impossible. Forget the cheese clearly this was not the day to try this. I managed to blow two days lunch money on one bad meal. Clearly my Italian classes are paying off. Ah...better luck tomorrow.