I woke up at 8am (unheard of, usually) and, per our routine, fed Nazar and Rama. All hell breaks loose if I don't feed them srazoo (immediately). I then sat down at my Windows laptop and started correcting one of my student's homework when Rama kind of awkwardly slipped as he approached me on the couch. I just thought it was the divet between the ( Read more... )

"I I, it is all I." She told me she was a narcissist, (as did Cheryl, "The whole world is only mine. You can only have a piece of it"). I was raised by a hyper-narcissist, my dad, so this probably seemed normal to me.

Sometimes I sit back and think about how truly awful Irina Ivanovna was to me (and how much I still pine for her) and how much she ( Read more... )

Much to my chagrin. I don't know how but nearly everyone in my building knows I'm American. The American in the building.

I used to think I was obvious because of my tattoos and many earrings (on a babushka, weird) but now I know it's more than Russians noticing anything, which doesn't generally happen.

Last week, I waited 15 minutes for the ( Read more... )

And they were saying you need to find a partner who has at least three things in common "you can share everyday" in order to make a relationship last.

I tried that for over nine gfs and it doesn't work. Unless we're talking about different things you do "everyday". I could find any human on the earth who eats, pees, and shits. I mean, that's a ( Read more... )

Before the 15th of this month or I will lose my job. So I went and got tested today, thanks to Nikol's twin, Elja. I was really freaking out. I'm so high anxiety all the time.

Nikol is not available as she has a ton of new projects in Moscow. Elja is always a breath of fresh air to me. I love her so much. I guess I didn't actually need her to be ( Read more... )

Before her, I was rarely able to make it to 3 years. I'm probably more in love with her than I was at the beginning, even though she's had a couple of affairs (which I don't think were physical but I don't care if they were).

Nikol is a spectacular human.  She's real, never passive-aggressive. (I honestly think that's one of the main reasons I've ( Read more... )

I'm referring back to this post. I just read that Livejournal no longer accepts HTML, that's neither here nor there. I'm mainly blabbing to myself here anyway, без разницы.  Like my old written journals, that were either found and read by my mom or burned in a fire pit, I'd like to keep something of myself for myself. Or if someone finds my journal ( Read more... )

I had already been a regular at Raggedy Ann's (Rag's) for years, having first stumbled upon Rag's when I was in high school. They had a backyard with a net and I was really into volleyball. So I'd go there in my fullpiece bathing suit and baggy pants and charge "old" ladies (they were maybe in their 30s?) $5 to tug at my pants and more for more. I' ( Read more... )

Next Thursday I'm going to Yerevan, Armenia. Again. I haven't been in Armenia in about five years but I doubt it's changed a lot. Nikol won a spot for me with her construction company by buying a ton of drywall supplies, not only for me but for Lena, our dear friend. Nikol knows how to break up her needed supplies to win rewards for multiple people ( Read more... )

I'm obsessed with my cats, Rama - the flamepoint Oriental (which I understand is being called "Modern" these days, instead of the problematic "Oriental") -- and my younger boy, a chocolate-ticked tabby Oriental, Nazarius.

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Rama was born on February 2nd (02.02. in keeping with our family of me 03.03, and Nikol 10.10), 2018 and Ramzes Sakharoff is ( Read more... )