Single Ladies on Repeat: Anti-Valentine Valentines

In the end I had about 10 valentines. Lydia, Sarah, Isabelle the German, and a lot of Norweigans who hosted the party we attended last night.

Highlights:
-"jelly" shots, which we really just cubes we stuffed in our mouths
-"Single Ladies" on repeat and the whole room doing the dance while playing find-the-tranny-in-the-video
-gun shows
-Ray Charles
-speaking Russian! They're taking over "Londongrad"
-Underworld's "Born Slippy"
-51Fifty's
-hearing a Scottish boy say "Hawla!" then advising him against going to Detroit, ever.

Lowlights:
-sick
-2 10-page papers have to be done this week, Reading Week
-Russian grammar take-home test needs to be studied for
-Russian in general outside of a party setting

Silver linings:
-No classes this week
-Sunday sick day, watching more documentaries in bed
-Lecture on Russia-Ukraine gas conflict=3 pages of my paper
-Getting a Vday text at 4am while walking from the bus in the cold=inner warmth

And when you're the last to leave the party, expect to be horizontal.

Trainspotting at Notting

Words cannot explain.

Rave Till You're Blind

Yo yo yo yo yo! Life is awesome for the following reasons:

1.Finished this book.

About 10 pages in and I stopped agreeing with Satter for the remainder of the book. His anecdotes are imitable, his suspicion, blinding, and his thesis, inconclusive. He purports from the beginning that administrative ineptitude, corruption, and a resulting moral vacuum in Russia's "soul" (bullshit) are responsible for her inevitable rule by dictator. We belabored this same argument in Soviet Union in WW2 and it still nags me, begging the questions 'Is Russia really doomed?' and 'Are we as doomed as Russia?'


2.Started this book.

After seeing the movie and reading the script, I bought this and 2 other of Irvine Welsh's novels, Glue and Porno, the follow-up to Trainspotting. I'm on page 43 and the plot is up and hoppin' already. The phonetic Scottish slang dialect doesn't even faze me anymore. I love books!!!!


3.Got these shoes.
From Beacon's online. New guilty guilty guilty pleasure since I went to Brooklyn and shopped there 2 days later. I'm gonna whip them out for fall like whoa.


4.No longer jealous of Balenciaga.

Just when you thought Balenciaga could go no more angular, they etched from a block of vinyl these cage-like "dresses" that the ugly-no-not-model-ugly-just-straight-up-UGGZ wearer seems rightfully displeased to sport.

Unless she's wondering where her period went.

Those satiny, exposed framework pantsuits of last spring were pretty groundbreaking for a house that traditionally favors more sensual, form-following lines.

This, however, simply gross.


5.Maybe Satter was right after all.

Read about the Moscow rave that left 61 people blind!