I'm about to leave for the airport to go to Russia. I'm going to be gone, completely out of the country and disconnected, for three months. It's still kind of unbelievable that I'm even going. It seemed like this day was just some distant future thing that would never actually happen, and now I'm about to go get on the plane and fly away to ( Read more... )

I'm having trouble grasping the concept that in fourteen days, I'm going to be on a plane to Moscow. It's just very odd and mostly unsettling. I still do a sort of double take when I think about being a Russian major. I'm in all sorts of a bad way right now, and it's kind of ridiculous. I'm so excited about Russia though, I can't let other stuff ( Read more... )