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I am not consistent enough in my blogging for a coronavirus diary
I started taking close-up photos of the buds on the bush in front of my window. My instagram may just end up being chronicles of the bush ( Read more... ) -
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My English is usually good enough for anything I want to do, but recently I realized that spoken English seems harder for me to understand than spoken American (or is that mid-Atlantic? I love that expression, and I'm not good enough at accents to recognize where one starts and the other begins). Two things that made me realize that - watching an ( Read more... ) -
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Sometimes I feel like the world outside of our apartment does not exist, and sometimes, like there's no countries and we're all in a single small world together, surviving the same things.
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Last time I traveled abroad: February 2020 to Germany
Last time I slept in a hotel: February 21 in Novgorod
Last time I flew in a plane: in February from Germany, kind of epic because I got caught in the hurricane troubles and was delayed by 24 hours.
Last time I took a train: February 22 from Novgorod. I'm so happy I managed to do at least some ( Read more... ) -
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So on Monday I went to Liza Tuktamysheva's show. It feels like it was ages ago. I feel kind of lucky I managed to go before the full-on brouhaha. Then again, the national team show scheduled in Moscow in late March said "Okay, so we're not to have more than 5 thousand people in one place? Fine, we'll do two shows in one day, 5 thousand people each ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday I went to my dentist for a regular check-up, and she told me I'm okay. My teeth are no worse than they were last time. I do not need to have anything done.
It's just... I have really awful teeth. I did not believe I would ever hear this at a check-up. Lately I've been brushing my teeth like five times a day. After every meal. Even after ( Read more... ) -
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So I went to Novgorod to see figure skating. That's a first - I have never gone travelling especially for this purpose, so I started small, Novgorod is just three hours by train ( Read more... ) -
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The way not to do a brief vacation:
- enjoying German art and architecture - 3 days
- trying to get out of Germany - 2 days
Mind you, it was still a good vacation, but it would have been better without hurricane weather.
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The Russian-language news site Meduza started a Brexit-related news item with the phrase "Actually, the honest header for this should be "UK did some Brexit thing again. No, no one still knows how it's going to turn out ( Read more... ) -
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Reading The October Man and rereading a couple of the latest Peter Grant novels makes me wonder about spirits of our local bodies of water (I haven't reread the book(s) where Varvara Tamonina appears and I can't remember whether they have anything about Russia except for Night Witches ( Read more... )