In Which I am in a rush and can't do a name for this entry

17.12.2008

So I'm sitting here not doing my work when I should, which is unsurprising. But, the fact is, like last night and the night before and the WEEK before, I couldn't get to sleep, so I shouldn't even try to get to sleep at a decent hour, tonight. I have plenty enough to do that I don't need to waste time lying in bed staring at ... blackness.

Speaking of which, I think I just realised that I don't remember the last time I saw sunlight. I mean, sure, there's "daylight" here... for a couple hours... every now and then. But it can hardly be called daylight. More like ... GREYLIGHT! Oh look at me make ... puns? That's not a pun. A RHYMING JOKE! That's beside the point. THE POINT IS. There is no light. And it is depressing. I'm kind of glad I'm not so far north that there are WEEKS without light.

Professor Vertkin gave us our paper topic, today. "Russia and the US - The Future." Yep. Broad. I'm going to at least form an outline, tonight. The good thing is that, after a little begging, he reduced the paper size from 10 pages 1.5 spaced to 10 pages double spaced. So, uhm, yeah. And he said it's not a research paper (clearly), so ... it's ... What we think. I guess I do a good enough job of rattling on, here, that I shouldn't worry about length, but I'm not sure I can write 10 pages of what I think is going to happen in US-Russian relations in the future. Maybe, "Right now they're as bad as they've been since the Cold War. They will improve with the coming presidency. Human civilisation is wiped out in the next few years anyway because of environmental abuse, so what's the point?" I saved over 20 pages of news articles from the BBC, Euronews, Time Magazine and Kommersant before leaving Bobrinskij, so maybe that'll shake up some ideas for LENGTH.

Augh. I feel really sluggish, today. Or perhaps, as I told Tatyana, I HAVE A LOT OF OATMEAL IN MY HEAD. I have to say, that is actually one one of the most useful phrases Annalisa Iosefovna taught us.

Tomorrow I have two exams, then the awards ... lunch ... for the RSL program. So, woohoo for that. RSL ending before everything else has made me tremendously lazy, though, and I feel like I don't have to/shouldn't do my work for my Human Rights course.

Alright, some jackass in the building put their TV/radio right next to their heater, so that's all I can hear coming through the pipes, and it's driving me up the wall. I think I preferred the screaming baby.

I feel like I had more to add... OH, RIGHT. IT'S FUCKING COLD. The temperature has been decreasing by one degree centigrade every day for the past five days. So right now it's at about -6. WHICH IS FUCKING COLD. However, I have to say, going by Celcius makes things seem all the colder, because I think -6 is something like the low 20's in Fahrenheit? Which, to me, doesn't seem THAT cold. I mean, cold, yes, but not FACE-RIPPING cold like it feels here. Of course, this all depends on the wind chill factor, and walking across that bridge is QUITE WINDY. QUITE WINDY INDEED. I made the mistake of NOT wearing my hat, today, because I feel like a fool wandering around with a big fur hat here since no one under the age of 50 seems to wear them, but at this point I CARE NOT about being perceived as a fool. I'd rather my ears not fall off.

In addition, it snows all the time, now. Which I guess makes sense, since it rained all the time, before, and now it's too cold to rain ... so ... it snows. Or something. Right, I am procrastinating, now. Time to work.