Woo! I danced yesterday! I needed to, really, I was in a very dancy mood. One girl didn't show up, she'll probably be fired. They've decided to enforce discipline: If you're late three times or don't show up once, you get a warning, if you get three warinings, you get fired. I filled out the job application last night (this morning to be exact, ( Read more... )

I went to see Lost in Translation with my sister. I really really enjoyed it, I was surprised to hear most of the audience go: “That was SO BORING!” I didn’t think it was boring at all… Actually I wish it was in English, I know how things get lost in translation :) I used to be an interpreter. The microphones thing - didn’t understand that… Were ( Read more... )

I've come with a gift idea for my honey. I'm gonne make a map for him. Map of the world. So he can put it on his wall. It's going to have Alaska, and Moscow, and the island, and the rest of the world, of course. And maybe the time zones marked or something like that. I already told him about it in an e-mail. Wanted to do a surprise at first, but ( Read more... )

I could barely wake up this morning. Now sitting at work, very sleepy... It's our crazy little dog Kori, who kept us awake all night long ( Read more... )

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My sister took some pictures during the big snow days. It was fun. But I'm glad it's over.

We have a new snow storm. This island hasn’t had a single year without a major snow storm. With LOTS of snow. Last year it was unbelievable - also right after the New Year’s - you walk out of the house and it’s like a white endless/startless nothing all around you. Imagine a tall wall of snow on the left, a wall of snow on the right, snow ahead of ( Read more... )

Gone shopping, haven't bought anything... I need to get things to give people when I arrive - like you come to their house and you bring gifts. Then there are Christmas gifts, which are actually to be given on the New Year (the Russian way), plus my little cousin's birthday is after the New Year's so there we need another gift ( Read more... )

Oh, now that I've only got four days before my trip, I realize how much stuff I should have started doing earlier :) Well, I might start doing that now ( Read more... )

My work contract got extended till the end of June next year. It was supposed to expire at the end of the year. People say I have a non-stable job, my contract gets extended in 6-months increments, and I never know for sure if I’ll be employed for longer than 6 more months, but I feel very stable in this job - because I’m myself never sure if I’ll ( Read more... )

Wow, finally we have snow! Not just snow, it’s a snow-dome kind of snow - it’s calmly floating in the air, or even just hanging there, like time is frozen and we’re just in a snow dome. So quiet - as if it hypnotized everyone - no crows fighting, no dogs barking, no car alarms going off. It won’t last for very long of course, the weather will get ( Read more... )