In Which a Day is Wasted

20.10.2008

Today was needlessly long. But it was mostly my own fault. I already want this week to be over, in either case.

So, I have this stupid habit of going to the Philological faculty at 10 in the morning every morning even when I don't have class until 1. Because I have some absurd idea in my mind that I must use the internet for hours every morning, but then I get to the computer and entirely forget about what I planned on doing.

In any case, went to class, had a test at about 4, then found out that I didn't have Human Rights today after I had already walked to Bobrinskij. Which was annoying, and I COULD HAVE just gone home but I decided to go to a lecture (by an American) on the U.S. elections and its impact on IR with Russia. Which was actually tremendously boring because, unfortunately, I didn't learn anything I didn't already know.

But... in the middle of this lecture, I realised something that actually took me off guard. I am an Obama voter. (Oh, yeah, by the way, I voted yesterday) Normally I find myself entirely detached from the American political goings on... I'm not really sure why. But, while thinking of the PROPOSITIONS!! on which I voted, I have a sense of pride. Since I voted AGAINST banning gay marriage in California, FOR several energy saving propositions, and FOR the rehabilitation of non-violent drug offenders (in stead of imprisonment). However, when thinking of the voting I did for the federal elections, I don't feel pride... I just feel kind of strange and uncomfortable. I don't know if this is due to for WHOM I voted, the fact that the American electoral system is absurd and fucked up and therefore my vote counts for very little to none, or a mix of the two.

Well, anyway, other than that, I really have no cultural observations for today. I have a lot of homework that needs to be done, but that's about it. Oh, and I'm planning to go to either Swan Lake or Romeo and Juliet at the end of the month (next week...? HOLY SHIT.) ... MAYBE I'LL GO TO BOTH. Actually, that's not an awful idea. They're on the 30th and the 31st, which are a Thursday and a Friday. I want to see Romeo and Juliet mostly because of the music, and I want to see Swan Lake because ... well, I'm in St. Petersburg, so I kind of need to see Swan Lake while I'm here. I sent a text to Yura asking if he'd like to go, but if he doesn't, then I think I'll just go alone. Or something. Maybe I'll find a boyfriend in the Marinskij theatre bathrooms.