No, it's not Scandinavia, but yes, it does get a bit depressing here occasionally, without sun... like today. So, I woke up early in the morning to a blizzard (which was great, I love blizzards!) took my shower, got dressed, etc. and went out into the city. I had promised my great-aunt that I would accompany her to the dentist, since she has ( Read more... )

Ooh! This is sooo exciting!!!!! I'm using a client to update my journal -- well, just testing it out, and I'm liking it! Thanks for the suggestion, Laura! :)

So, I didn't end up going out to dinner with Sveta at the Soviet-style club (yeah, all the tables were booked by Russian Jews for Hannukah -- and if I were a Russian Jew, I'd love to celebrate it there, since they have the best food and awesome music), but we ended up ordering pizza and staying in instead. It was fun, though, since we ended up half ( Read more... )

Well, last night I wrote this pretty long entry with a mini-update on my classes, some more ballroom stuff, etc... and then LiveJournal ate it... yes, funny thing is, just as I hit the update button, I thought "Ooh, maybe I should have copied it first, just in case" -- and, of course, as soon as I thought that, there turned out to be some sort of ( Read more... )

Ok, once again, the mouse-pictures do not match the mood -- content doesn't mean sleepy! :) This picture matches better...

Well, after a rather disturbing day, GU Ballroom-wise, although I'm still not sure who was honest and who wasn't, I feel much better. I've put my concerns out in the open, and I've gotten at least one very positive, reassuring response, which I am very grateful for. Although it still saddens me to find ballroom more full of intrigue and politics ( Read more... )

Well, first of all, ballroom in Moscow...

For those of you that don't know, I've joined the team (over 400 people!!!) at Moscow State University, but, since they do not allow you to go to the highest-level groups without a partner (and finding one of my level for just a semester would have been absolutely ridiculous), I took some privates with ( Read more... )

I was going to label my mood as apathetic for the previous entry, but the mouse associated with it looked like she'd overdosed on ecstasy and was experiencing her fifth orgasm in a row... i'm not quite sure the picture quite expressed the mood :)

Ugh! It's so cold and disgustingly grey and dreary outside... I know I should go outside and do something, especially since there are quite a few things I should be doing, such as:

• going to the post office and mailing an "i miss you, take care of yourself, ood luck at your concert" gift for my mommy
• going to the Finnair offices and paying for ( Read more... )

So, procrastinating, as always, I was lazily loking through some materials on the life and work of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, one of the major Russian liberals of the early 20th century (since I had to do a presentation on her today) at the same time as leafing through Russian Cosmo (quite amusing, I must say! although I was disappointed wth the ( Read more... )