Today, thankfully, was NOT a waste.

I plan on going to Central Station soon, within an hour, but for now I wanted to rest and wind down a little bit.

Took a shower, did a little packing today. Then at about 2 I went to meet Ilana and Maneka at the metro station, as we were going to check out a mall that supposedly has half decent prices. I waited in the metro station for about an hour or so, which was fine, because I got to do a lot of people watching. At one point, there was some sort of fight on the metro train -- I couldn't entirely tell what was going on because it was half obscured. Well, I saw this guy violently KICK something inside the metro car, which was strange, then I saw someone FLY out of the door, and a couple more guys flee the car. I never saw who they were fighting -- The train doors closed and all the guys who were thrown out of the car were making rude gestures and whatnot. No one else was really paying them any attention.

So, we get to the mall, called "Nord," and shop around. I had no intention of buying anything, as I didn't think I'd find anything, BUT, I bought a pair of shoes which are AWESOME and a small... bag thing. As a replacement for my small backpack when that dies. Which might be soon. I'll take photos in the near future.

OH, and my Human Rights professor, Starodubtsev, sent me an e-mail. I just kind of read through it fast, but from what I understood he's willing to work with me so I can take the class for credit, and not have to worry about my workload. But I'm not going to get too excited until I get time to go through and translate it. Which will be tomorrow.

I spent way too much money, today.

I know I keep forgetting to put things in my entries... Like, interesting stories that happen... I don't know. We'll see.

Peter and Paul Fortress tomorrow. Yay cultural excursions.

Edit: OH! I remember my interesting story! When I got back to Primorskaya Metro like an hour ago, I was going up the escalator... and ... I kept hearing music. Just barely. I realised it was Fade to Grey, by Visage, and I was like "wtf?" It was too loud to be coming from someone's headphones, and it sounded like it was coming from the metro intercom system, but I've never heard music being played there, before. And I couldn't find its source. Which was disappointing.