This is something that I have thought about for a long time, but it's only lately that it's started cooking over. I have never really been able to express it properly, mostly because it's such a huge issue that is integrated into my everyday life. But I have recently started blogging about how I'm a immigrant, so maybe I should just start writing ( Read more... )

Cavewoman's passportApplied for new passport today. Kinda spontaneously, so now both I and Stangel will have "comb? shampoo? what's that"-photos in our passports. Good stuff. I should get one of those international ID cards. I used to have a card but I lost it along with my wallet five years ago and have used my passport as ID since then. It could ( Read more... )

There is a commonly known fact that in the Soviet Union they were awfully into not informing people about things. The misunderstanding here is that it somehow was a totalitarian Soviet phenomenon. Fucking wrong, I'm telling ya. The inability to present information properly is something deeply rooted in the Russian genome along with vodka- ( Read more... )

ProtocultureYesterday I watched The Matrix. It was... wow. I mean. WOW. I mean, where would we have been without it? I was 15 when it came. The latest 7 years of my life have been defined by The Matrix. It's an okay movie, but watching it now it's like... In "Andrey Rublev" they force a guy's mouth open and pour melted metal into it. The Matrix is ( Read more... )

I registered on the distance course in Latin the other week, so that I could take the exams this term. Got an e-mail this morning, where they wrote that I registered too late, so I have to wait for the autumn term ( Read more... )

Gwaaah ( Read more... )

My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses -- the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions -- ( Read more... )

Looking for a job. Streetcorner next.One of the requirements to apply for Psychology is at least one year of work experience. This is what I am acquiering now. They told me that the reason is them wanting future shrinks to have some experience at life. I have spent several days now actively browsing job sites and I think that the real reason is ( Read more... )