Saw 7 SIFF movies by now. 2 were awful. 4 - good, 1 - excellent!

1. 500 Days of Summer (6/8, 7:00pm)
2. The Burning Plain (6/14, 2:30pm)
3. Il Divo (6/6, 11:00am)
4. Like Dandelion Dust (5/31, 6:30pm)
5. The Maid (5/31, 1:15pm)
6. The Merry Gentleman (5/30, 3:45pm)
7. Facing Ali (May 29, 7:00PM)
8. A Pain in the Ass (6/12, 7:00pm)
9. Seraphine (6/1, 7:00pm)
10. Rembrandt J'Accuse (5/27, 7:00pm)
11. Tetro (6/10, 7:00pm)
12. The Admiral (6/5, 7:00pm)
13. Karamazov (6/3, 9:15pm)
14. World's Greatest Dad (6/7, 4:00pm)
15. Once Upon a Time in the West (June 13, 1:30PM)

Here's to my super-talented, wonderful, amazing brother! Гриш, I'm incredibly proud of you! Very good play (although we both agree it could be much shorter) and you did a great job! You really made me a bit jealous - I kept thinking, why am I in the audience? Shouldn't I be up there? Maybe it's time to give it all another shot?

But anyway, today was about you and I'm seriously impressed! Keep acting!

http://goheroes.weebly.com/baggage-claim.html

Doing well, a short trip to Vancouver was amazing! Great food (but very healthy), walks in the park, little golf, drinks, candle-lit dinner (earth hour), Grouse mountain funicular and some shopping on Sunday! I feel so refreshed and ready for another week. Gym tonight.

http://www.grandpiano.ru/pegasus.html

(To give proper credit: mom sent me this)

An Israeli doctor says, "Medicine in my country is so
advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put
it in another, and have him looking for work in six
weeks."

A German doctor says, "That is nothing, we can take
a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have
him looking for work in four weeks."

A Russian doctor says, "In my country, medicine is
so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one
person, put it in another, and have them both looking
for work in two weeks."

A Texas doctor, not to be outdone, says, "You guys
are way behind, we recently took a man with no brains
out of Texas, put him in the White House for eight
years, and now half the country is looking for work."

Когда я была маленькой девочкой, мне было лет семь или восемь, мы с мамой как-то шли в Баку по улице Торговой и по нашей привычке заглянули в магазин, где продавали немецкую бижутерию, аксессуары - магазин был дорогой и хороший, но отоваривались мы там где-то раз в год при советских зарплатах. Мама увидела там шарф - сиреневый с золотом с бахромой. Мне он страшно понравился и маме тоже, но ее останавливала цена. А люрекс в тот год был в большой моде. Мы ушли, но мама все об этом думала и несколько дней спустя мы вернулись и купили его - причем я настояла на том чтобы пойти вместе с мамой. Когда мы уезжали из Баку и хаотично собирали чемоданы, я заставила маму взять этот шарф с собой. Не знаю, mom, did it make it to America?

Короче, с чему я все это пишу? Сегодня была в любимом магазине - Anthropologie - и купила там индийский шарф :) сине-голубой с золотом. It's more like a pashmina (I get a fifteen percent discount on a purchase on any day in February, since it's my birthday month and I'm their very frequent customer). И я вспомнила об этом эпизоде, как мы с мамой шопались :) Мама привила мне вкус к изысканным аксессуарам и сумкам. The shoes are my own thing, started in college for some reason.

Happy Valentine's Day, mom! :) Hugs!

Как-то нескромно кажется мне теперь писать здесь. Гым гым. Да и Facebook, как это не печально, вроде затягивает все больше и больше. Поживем - увидим.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/26/the_unstoppable_snuggie

I see commercials for this retarded blanket all the time now. Usually, you'd have to be watching TV late late at night to come across something like this. This sucks. This whole environment sucks. I'm at work right now но настроение совершенно не рабочее. И не у одной меня. The halls are quiet, there's hardly any mail. I guess people are thinking: why should I bust my ass if at any minute I can end up on the chopping block.

http://www.capitolhilltimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=26&SubSectionID=248&ArticleID=27447

As a matter of fact she lived just two blocks from where Courtney and I live at now :)

Можно сколько угодно уподобляться страусу, можно без конца повторять "живи и радуйся, и не переживай", но полностью отмахнуться от происходящего и не прокомментировать все же невозможно. Во всяком случае мне.

До крайности странный день.

I'm still standing, but what was so strange is that had I not been aware of the news, I would never have guessed by the attitude of the people in my immediate team or on my floor in my building that something unprecedented and quite scary was happening. Everyone went about business as usual. There's some comfort in that and I myself tried to be somewhat productive and distract myself from the layoffs thoughts by the tasks at hand. Maybe there's dignity in our team handling it with such stoicism. But honestly, I really wish someone would have had the balls to openly bring up the 800-pound gorilla in the room. I bet all talk will start tomorrow.

The eight-year-long reign of idiocy is officialy over. To summarize:



The best of luck to our new president - Barack Hussein Obama!

ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ РЕЦЕПТ КИЕВСКОГО ТОРТА

Приготовление киевского торта.

Уходя из дому, жена сказала мужу: « Вася в 11 часов из Киева будут передавать рецепт приготовления киевского торта. Не забудь включить приемник и переписать рецепт». Вася быстро позавтракал, пропустив перед этим две стопки водки, взял бумагу и приготовился записывать. Однако в спешке допустил ошибку – настроил приемник между Киевом и Москвой. В это время из Москвы передавали урок гимнастики, а из Киева – рецепт приготовления киевского торта. Вася еле успевал записывать: «Поднять обе ноги вверх, посыпать между ними мукой и хорошо растереть, залить полстакана молока, поставить ноги на ширину плеч, наклониться вперед и помыть яйца в посуде, это повторить 5-6 раз, после чего лечь на пол и бить яйца до тех пор пока не появиться густая пена. Дыхание при этом должно быть совершенно спокойным. После прыжков на месте проверьте не осталось ли скорлупы на яйцах. Глубоко вздохнуть, все перемешать и поставить на огонь. Через 10 минут вынуть и растереть мокрым полотенцем. Затем можно одеваться и подавать на стол.

I got an amazing haircut last night (or maybe it just seems amazing since I was in a desperate need of a haircut) and then I was going to go to the gym, but I forgot my keys, so instead I ended up walking around down-town waiting for Courtney to get home. Anyway, I got there at around 8 and we started watching TV. And we found this on-demand exercise channel. I immediately got out my yoga mat and started doing some abs work outs since I skipped gym and wanted to at least do something. Then Courtney found a yoga work out. We put it on and I started doing it while Courtney was watching me with a glass of wine. Everything was going fine until I heard the following phrase:

"Breathe...there is no hardness..."

I started giggling, but then pulled myself together and continued stretching like a python. During the next pose, there came another line:

"Relax.... breathe... try not to get hard..."

COME ON! :) :) :) That was pretty much it, следующие десять минут я валялась на матрасике и хихикала, и все мое йогишное настроение начисто испарилось.

Видно все же не для меня йога :) How the hell can I EVER get hard?! гы гы гы

and this is the full thing:

http://news.spreadit.org/bush-press-conferencebush-last-press-conference-video/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2009/01/12/BL2009011201584.html

This is when I wish I was fucking Terminator! How can we allow this moron to simply walk away! Неужели нет справедливости на свете! A completely childish outcry, but c'mon people! Why oh why did that shoe miss. Maybe if he'd lost an eye, I'd feel some slight satisfaction.

А вот это еще похлеще: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28620374/

By letting these criminals go free or remain free, we're setting precedent for this shit to happen again and again.

Difficult to watch at times, but DZAMN!!!! That is a Golden Glob win and an Oscar win for best actor. Amazing performance by Mickey Rourke.