Wow -- didn't know you were going to be there!

Don't miss going to an "osteria" -- a locals-only wine bar (as much as that can exist in Venice). There are seven of them left, the others lost to time. One is close to the old La Fenice. Damn, I am forgetting their names. But your hotel folks will help you out (if you haven't found them on your own yet, oh intrepid traveller). Get whatever they are serving for food that day -- it will be relatively cheap and yummy, and will probably involve things like octapus and spices.

Bar La Fenice is fun, too.

I wish I had known you were going. There's a lot of places I would have told you about -- I lived in Padova for one year, and had very good friends who lived in Venice during the same time.

I once kissed a beautiful italian boy under the campanile while the bells were ringing, then later kissed him more at the train station, waiting for my train to pull away.

Have you gone to Murano, Burano and/or Torcello, the islands?

Gelato in piazza Santa Margarita in Dorsoduro (the huge piazza right next to the University) -- they will give you an amazing number of flavors of gelato at once... six, I believe? Maybe more.

The something Iguana at night...maybe the Blue Iguana? Fuck Fuck Fuck. You've probably found it already. It's near the Strada Nuova, there's a little strip of nightspots. Which is worth it to see what is considered to be a nightspot in Venice.

Go to the arsenale to the gardens and see where the bienniale is held.

Sorry. Don't know if you want advice and I don't even know how long you'll be there. But have fun. You can't not, really.