In Which Bad Decisions are Made

So basically I feel absolutely awful. Last night while heading out I had a mild sore throat, and I knew it was going to get worse, and it did... Last night was just a large terrible decision.

So I was going to Central Station, the gay club in Petersburg, just to check it out and dance. I was only going for a couple of hours, since they're free before 11 and I wanted to get back before the metro closed. Well, Maneka texted me right as I got to the Vasilestrovskij metro station, so I jumped off and invited her along with me. We ended up taking a 20-30 minute walk down Nevskij Prospekt because we took a wrong turn out of the metro station, but neither of us minded since it's neat to walk there at night anyhow, and we both enjoy people watching. Well, we finally get to Central Station, and the doorman greets me and ushers me in, but tells Maneka she has to go in a different entrance AND pay 1000 rubles because she's a girl. We were both like "Wtf? nothx" and left. They DO say they have a "special price" for girls on Saturdays, but figured she'd be fine if she went with me, plus she's sexually ambiguous, so. Apparently not. We're both still kind of wondering what the hell this whole "special entrance" bullshit is, but anyhow.

We ended up going back to Vasilestrovskij and meeting up with a few others in a bar. Which was boring and awful. Then we went to MacDonalds express and stood outside for 30 minutes talking to tremendously drunk Russian guys with strange blue hats with daisies on them (One of them sounded dead up like he was doing a Borat impression). That was boring and awful. Then we realise the dorms have closed and we all have to sleep in Maneka's house. Which was awful. All four of us scrunched up on Maneka's bed, and I just got sicker and sicker as the night progressed, and now I just feel disgusting, with a headache and a terribly sore throat. Despite that, I went with them to an open air market, at noon, which was INSANE. I wanted to buy EVERYTHING. I saw perfect gifts for my mother and my father, plus a few pairs of shoes that I wanted to buy, a really old KINO poster, and some other stuff, but I bought NOTHING because I was MISERABLE and SICK and don't know how to haggle. So I think I'm going to go back next week by myself, if I'm feeling better. Oh, while walking around, I saw one of the vendors pull out a stick of butter, unwrap it, and then just start chomping down. It was awful.

Plus, I still have a ton of work I need to do. Yeck. I just want to lie in bed and eat oatmeal for the rest of the day.

Edit: I'm going to start doing Words of the Day. More for myself than anything. Here's the first:

ученый (uchenyj) - erudite. I wonder if it sounds as pretentious in Russian as it does in English.