No, I have no "legitimate" reason to study Hebrew; it's just my linguistic curiosity and admiration. I can only hope this doesn't end just as badly as my adventures with other foreign languages of no practical use to me.

It started with some joke in my Russian-speaking Facebook company about how somebody should start singing Hava Nagila to freak ( Read more... )

Phew, I finally got these photos out of my mother’s phone (via an USB cable!). And then I didn’t manage to post them last night because I lost my Internet connection. :P ( Read more... )

And now to finally show you the parcel I got from hettie_lz on 18 December (it says that it was sent on 12 December, so I'm impressed with how fast it arrived):

It came in this special holiday envelope (addresses clumsily redacted):

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Wow, it took me “only” a month and a half to finally upload these carefully selected, edited and in some cases even renamed photos somewhere (luckily, not on Photobucket) and try to tell the story about them, which feels very strange on this rainy late-Autumn night ( Read more... )

This was the main reason why I disappeared from LJ for longer than usual; and now I can’t even calculate how many days it took me because I can’t remember when I began it. I admit that I also got two days of unexpectedly getting to see tow different friends (within one week, wow) and one rainy day in between when I didn’t feel like cleaning and ( Read more... )

I didn't deliberately search for this effect and I don't think the manufacture did either. All I wanted were warm slippers that fit me, and I decided that bright red would be a lesser evil than the hot pink that was the only alternative (they had them in overly bright blue too, but not my size), all in the same black dots. But of course it was the ( Read more... )

I have fond childhood memories of the house martins of the apartment building where I used to live as a child; there is something like a terrace on the roof that was open to everybody at the time, and we the children would climb up there and drop pieces of cotton wool, which the martins would catch to line their nests. We all rejoiced when their ( Read more... )

You know that autumn is coming when you see house martins, swifts and bats flying all at the same time in the evening, which typically happens in early September here; even if the weather is still summer-hot and the trees are still green, that’s an unmistakable sign of autumn. The summer martins keep flying out of their nests earlier and then going ( Read more... )

I was sitting in my hometown’s most central park knitting at about 7 PM on Friday when an older woman approached me ( Read more... )

That interesting moment when you are knitting from a printed pattern in Russian and your native language is Bulgarian, but you are jotting your work notes in English because it has become your habitual "knitting language".