Наша замечательная традиция куда-нибудь ездить на Memorial Day weekend была воплощена в жизнь и в этом году. Как уже писал Даня, мы зарезервировали отели в Providence, RI и в Boston, MA.

Так как я сдала последние экзамены в четверг и была свободна аки птица, мы с Даней разработали хитроумный план избежать предпраздничные Нью-Йоркские пробки: в пятницу утром мы должны были ехать к нему на работу, вечером на поезде туда же должен был подтянуться Игнат, ну и дальше все вместе мы продолжили бы славный путь в Провиденс. Однако ввиду того что Данин босс вдвое сократил рабочий день, мы пересмотрели наш план и решили просто выехать из города как можно раньше после окончания работы. Read more…

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Geoff says:
May 30, 2008 @ 11:27

Hey–I can almost read this! Something something something Freedom Trail! something something Quincy Market! something something Foxwoods Casino! I’m bilingual now–sweet.

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Daniel says:
May 30, 2008 @ 16:54

You’re definitely getting there with your language skills. I shall start being more careful with bad-mouthing you in Russian from now on.

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I got a notice in the mail a couple of weeks ago that I need to do my civic duty and serve on jury duty. So here I am. I’ve been here for 3 hours already and not much has happened. I don’t really know if I will get selected and how many days total it will take at this point.

I know that because of this our trip to Canada got canceled. I didn’t want to take a day off only to find out that I need to be in court on that date. And 3 days is really not enough for Read more…

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Geoff says:
May 22, 2008 @ 17:39

Congrats on beating the system. It might have been a cool trial though, I’m thinking that a bunch of supermodels sue a sorority.

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Daniel says:
May 22, 2008 @ 17:48

Obviously only you could think of such a case.

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Alex says:
May 23, 2008 @ 11:48

And the judge is Jerry Springer. Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

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We booked another trip. A short one this time. The final destination is Boston with a 1 night stop in Providence, RI. Now we’ve been to Boston before, but we didn’t want to waste a 3 day weekend and just sit at home. We’re planning to do a lot of sightseeing and hunt for some National Park Passport stamps on the way.

Пару дней назад Даня выразил желание поесть грибного супа. Ну, если муж хочет — значит, надо варить.

Вчера в русском магазине я долго выбирала между 3-мя разными банками сушёных грибов, а в результате купила 2 упаковки грибного супа, которые включали в себя сушёные лесные грибы, перловку, растительные жиры, гидролизированные картофель и морковку, сушёный укроп, соль и чёрный перец. Read more…

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Серёга says:
May 31, 2008 @ 15:26

э, а чё сушённые, в Америколяндии своих грибов чё ваще нету?
Айда да дому, у нас тут на кожнам шоссе бабули их вёдрами выставляют!

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Daniel says:
May 31, 2008 @ 15:47

Ууу, чернобыльские.

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It’s May 18th again, and it is a special day for me because on this day, as I wrote before, my grandma Liya was born into this world 84 years ago.

Every time when I try to convince myself that I’m strong, I think of her and I do feel stronger. She was so brave — the older I get, the more I realize it.

I remember that she always told me not to hunch my back and to make sure my posture is upright. I wish I paid more attention to this particular advise.

I think she was as proud of us, as we were of her. I still love her very much. I wish she was still with us.

Last morning I had my second final exam. I wouldn’t even call it a final — it was too easy and not stressful at all.

After the class our professor, Mr. David F., invited us all to the Rodeo Bar which is located near Baruch’s campus.

8 people came to this lunch/beer drinking deal. It was totally fun. We talked about school, work, personal lives. Professor only teaches one class per semester, and he said that one of the things that he loves about Baruch is the diversity of a student body.

Even in the bar yesterday we represented a variety of countries: Belarus (me), Lithuania (Vaida), Cyprus (Mario), Puerto Rico (J), China (Day, who was born here though), Italy (Vinc, who was also born in the US), and of course different US states (Rick from Ohio, Jessica from Main and professor from New York).

I think that we got lucky with our professor this semester, because he made this pretty useless class more interesting and less intense than other teachers. He also payed for everybody’s lunch, which is a very nice gesture.