Haven't been around for a while. Usually, this doesn't mean that I have nothing to tell, but that I'm doing so many things that I don't have the time to write them down.

It is the case.

Of all the things I'm doing now (such as trying to organise an sf podcast with my friends in Lyon), the most important - and exciting - is that next week I'm going to a journalist seminar about Turkey and the Eu. Where? Well, in Brussels and Ankara, of course!

In the meantime, I have opened a new blog (another one?! Oh yeah), this time in French, named A la recherche du lieu perdu, where I'm supposed to talk about my travels. Actually, it's for a contest. I mean, for money, you know?

I've started with last year's travel in Turkey. Well, the beginning of it. Tonight I'm really too tired to continue: I'm preparing for the next travel, and, moreover, today it was such a beautiful and sunny day that I honestly couldn't stay at home, so I spent a couple of hours with a friend wandering through the city. That's how I got tired. But happy.

So, hopefully I'll update it tomorrow. If you read French, you might want to have a look. It is also possible to subscribe to a weekly newsletter.

Hello. This is my first entry, so I'll introduce myself.
Well, actually you may find the basic knowledge about me in my profile, and for the rest I think you had better know me through what I will write in the blog.
However, I think two things are missing in my profile: the first one is that I'm a journalist (don't ask me for whom I work, I'm just a free lance, you'll know the details later), the second one that I'm Italian but I live in France, in Lyon to be exact.

Ok, so now let's come to the title of this blog: it's a quotation from the latest Bon Jovi single, 'Have a Nice Day' (so you have also the title of this entry explained), which I like a real lot (actually, I think it's simply one of the best songs Bon Jovi have ever written... they're like the good wine, getting better with age... well, just what they say in one of their songs: 'not old, just older'). You may find the lyrics and a link to hear the song here.
You may also see the video at the Bon Jovi website but you have to sign up first.

What I also like is what is written in the press release: '“Have a Nice Day” itself is a defiant response to the disappointment the singer felt after the 2004 presidential election. He had campaigned for Democratic nominee John Kerry. But in true Bon Jovi fashion, the song rises into a chorus that counsels renewed conviction in the face of setbacks, optimism against opposition, standing your moral ground regardless of the consequences: “I ain’t gonna do what I don’t want to/I’m gonna live my life...When the world gets in my face, I say/Have a nice day!”'. How can't you just LOVE such a man? :-)

Well, let's get back to me: now you know I already have an Italian blog. I can even tell you I have more blogs: another one in Italian about science fiction dinners in Milan (Cenacolo), and one in English about Turkey (Turkish Diary). So what's the use of one more blog?

Two reasons for the existence of this blog: first of all, I needed something about me for my non-Italian friends. Secondly, I discovered Live Journal at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Glasgow, because most of the people I found there have a page here, so I became obsessed by the thought that I HAD TO HAVE A LIVE JOURNAL PAGE TOO!!!

Well, it's all for now. If you have been frightened by me, don't worry: it's just normal.
Selene