How is that every time I try and pose as a proper female serious, poised young lady, like, for example, here;


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Our building has gas canisters as means of supplying cooking gas. Two canisters for every apartment, as soon as one is finished you switch, order up, gas company delivers, and you go on living, soup-guzzling merrily ( Read more... )

That's how it was:


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It would seem that I have a responsibility for  a betta fish in a vodka bottle hoisted on me. I know nothing about fish, but I do know that they are not supposed to be in vodka bottles. :(

Photo by mahrjutka 
Macro by it_gurl  via cat_macros 
Model: Dimona.


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I felt in urgent need for practice - my character typing is getting a bit rusty. Lin Yu Chang's book, Chinatown Family, that I'm currently reading, is proving to be an ample source of proverbs and behavioral stereotypes, so I figured it will do.

在冯老二住处附近住了一些捷克人， 希腊人，意大利人，犹太人，德国人以及澳洲人。他对这些民族所属的国家一点也补了解。在他看来，这些人也不过是为家庭生活而忙于奔波的人。中国人从被满族统冶以来， ( Read more... )

Random www.anekdot.ru joke;

Встречаются два попугая.
- Ты кто?
- Я голубой волнистый попугайчик.
- Почему голубой?
- Я голубей люблю.
- А почему волнистый?
- Когда люблю, то волнуюсь...

turns into this -

There are two parrot.
-Ty who?
-I wavy Blue Parrot.
-Why blue?
-I love pigeons.
-A wavy why?
-When love, the waves ..

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I like the central  bus station area. Makes me feel like I'm not even in the Middle East anymore.

To prove my point -


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For all those who marvel at my "journal" being all in English I dug up this gem. They do sing it. Seriously.
Translation is behind a cut, with my commentary.

Плясовая песня; записана в селе Краснохолм Илекского района
Оренбургской oблaсти в 1939 г.
обработка В. Позднеева

Оренбуржцы - казаки, они верно служат
По станицам разъезжают, ни о чём не тужат.

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