Don't let that lake water go up your nose, kids. Amoeba may eat your brain.
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Did you miss us? Wait, don't answer that ( Read more... )

See, I wanted to have a post called "the last shall be first." Where I got to gloat about how, even though I only got to see the HP5 movie yesterday because that's how late it opened in Russia, I got HP7 in book form before the rest of you, since Russia doesn't care about little things like release dates ( Read more... )

Finally, a silly Internet thing that satisfies both my inner nerd and my Brit-obsessed nature. Oh, wait, perhaps those aren't actually two different things? Anyway:


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Long time, no post. My mom and aunt have been here for 9 days and we've done an incredible amount of tourist stuff during that time. Makes sense, since it's probably the only time they'll ever be in Russia. Two cities, three palaces, ten or so churches, as many restaurants. Exhausting, but fun. I'll post photos soon ( Read more... )

...Scot was making another bulleted list ( Read more... )

I've been frustrated since I was 14 that I never can quite get my songs to sound how I want. Usually it's been because I didn't have the right recording equipment, that's just been more expensive than I could afford (or so I felt ( Read more... )

Thought I should mention how nice it is right now, especially after all the complaining we did about the long winter. It's getting into the 70's for the first time today, and the tulips and fruit trees are blooming all over town ( Read more... )

Sorry no posts for a while, we've been really busy here. We've had two friends visiting, plus we went to St. Petersburg for 3 days, then it was Victory Day (victory over the Nazis in WWII, that is, massive holiday here) so there's been lots of sightseeing going on. Plus I had a cold which left me pretty incoherent for a while there. We'll post ( Read more... )

I've been wondering how the time has been flying by. So, being the nerd that I am, I decided to find out and spent a week writing down what I did and when I did it, trying not to influence my choices but just record what I was up to. The results are interesting (to me, at any rate ( Read more... )