i award the staying in touch award to.... ME! yes i know i've grown so much ( Read more... )

home and alive in america

i didn't realize that going back into the land of non-russia would mean that i can't discuss the ugly baby in normal outdoor voices ( Read more... )

has anyone else's livejournal been completely translated into spanish? as if there isn't enough language confusion in my life. i had a dream the other day that i went home and everyone had learned russian while i was gone and couldn't speak english anymore. it was awful. i'm craving an english conversation like you wouldn't believe. english = crack ( Read more... )

hey guess what i'm a camper! i communed with nature and came out unscathed! anya and dave, however, were not so lucky. their faces puffed up like....things that puff up....thanksgiving turkeys? probably not but i like the sound of it ( Read more... )

its raining outside so i ducked into my favorite IK - a ruble a minute folks, this is some hot shit. so my host family locked me out of my house last night. fun stuff. i spent the weekend in Novgorod, which was amazing, and get back hung over after a 7 hour bus ride and no sleep so speak of to find that my key doesn't open the damned 3rd door ( ( Read more... )

the billboards are right. russia is indeed the land of opportunities. i am called such a nice collection of names as to make me quite pleased. i am officially a fan of birthdays. loot: hip flask that has lenin and 'always ready!' on it, champagne/vodka, and a russian version of national geographic. plus i got to spend the fourth enjoying early ( Read more... )

today is July 3rd, 2006 and it is officially Margie Day. that's right, on this very day i cease to be a teenager and join the ranks of 20 year olds everywhere. i'm not sure what time that happened because i was born at 1:11 am EST and now i am no where near EST, and if we were going by that i would have turned 20 at 10:11 am here. what was i doing ( Read more... )

THE FAIR IS HERE!!!!!!

hallo! i'm about to head out to the fucking OPERA! i don't know who this masha person is but she's slowly taking over my body. wanna know what else i'm doing? if you guessed getting naked and beaten with eucalyptus leaves then give yourself a cigar! plus going to clubs and talking to strange people in a foreign language. also today i got tickets ( Read more... )