Hello again, first time in almost a year. I've had the BEST year. I met a guy at the start of april and we had the best fucking time since then, the best love, we were so good together. Seriously, so great to know that that is possible! He has left now - moved back to home country for work but that's ok, I have this capsule of time as my own as ( Read more... )

Last weekend (11-13) representatives from some of the Moscow broomball teams went on a jolly to a town in the north called Kirov. Got the overnight train there after work on the friday and came back on the overnight train to go to work on the monday morning. It was a great weekend with lots of friendly games with mixed teams ( Read more... )

What were you doing here when you lived here, ennui? You're not from moscow are you? Do you have russian family ( Read more... )

Hello all ( Read more... )

hello world, ive not been on here for about a year, apart from five minutes last week when i thought i had free time so logged in, then straight away lots of work arrived, so the window went unwritten-in ( Read more... )

A cat came to live with us, just walked in when a guest was leaving. It might have lived before with a lady on a different floor because the first time it came it stayed for the evening, slept, then got agitated and wanted to be let out, probably for the toilet. Next morning I met it on the stairs on my way out and sent it up to our flat and it ( Read more... )

-- The quality of my life is in direct proportion to the number and quality of the novels i am reading as well as amount of time i have for reading novels. I wonder at what point it would tip the scale in the other direction. For example, if i had utterly nothing to do apart from read novels, or if the only novels on offer were rubbish then i doubt ( Read more... )

Sometimes it comes on me in waves when I try to sleep, when I try to work or prepare food. Images fly in my head of edinburgh's grey stone and moss, of the islands in the forth, of my parents, brothers and friends, a riot of solid, genuine, clever happy people with good jokes and kindly eyes, parties in the forest with multicoloured stripy knitwear ( Read more... )

( layers of identity )

when should you take decisive action to determine the course of your life? should you do something that would be painful and not fun in the short term, so that you might have what think you want in the long term ( Read more... )