In Which Procrastination KILLS ME

25.11.2008

So I promised myself last night that as soon as I got home, today, I would start on my paper. Period. Because otherwise there'd be no way that I'd finish it.

And what am I doing? SURE AS HELL AIN'T MAH PAPER.

Six weeks left. Still so much to do, but I'm not lamenting. I'll have to fill each weekend with fun things, however. I'm going to try and see if I can get tickets to the "St Petersburg Opera," about which Vika told me today. She said it's small and cheap, especially compared to the Mikhailovskij and the Mariinskij. So I'll have to see what's playing.

We started a chapter in Razgovor today about ... ordering food and shopping. This would have been useful about, oh, I don't know, THREE MONTHS AGO? I've realised that I've been using terribly incorrect terms and structures when I go out to restaurants or shopping. So that's just fantastic.

Damn it, I know there were a couple other things I wanted to talk about, today, but I forgot what they were...

Well, one was about something in Razgovor. We were going over a list of things one would buy in a cosmetics store, and one of them was "туалетная вода." Which literally translates to "toilet water." Of course, I, being the mature individual that I am, burst out laughing. I think two of the girls in the class were genuinely confused as to why "toilet water" was on this list, and the teacher didn't find it very funny. So, I had to go into an explanation about how in America, we don't translate "eau de toilette" on perfume, because "toilet" in English solely means ... well, the toilet. Apparently the Russian "туалет" is taken directly from the French in meaning. This just further proves my theory that English is a horribly crass language.

On the downside, I have almost finished my last jar of peanut butter. My mom said she sent me another jar a couple weeks ago, so we'll see if that gets here. I wish I hadn't eaten so much of the first jar when I lived in the dorms...

Edit: Alright, so, I was reading BBC, and there were several news stories about terrorist incidents in southern Russia -- Around the Caucasus and such. Well, then there was one about a car exploding, and I figured that was almost in the Caucasus, and almost didn't read it ... But...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7747369.stm