Archive for June, 2006

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How terribly painful.
And Marta’s been crying through it all, screaming almost non-stop. Maybe another tooth on its way.
It’s midnight and I still have to do something for Global Voices.
Marta’s watching me type, but as soon as I try to lay her down, she cries.
Oh God.

0:3
How terribly painful.
And Marta’s been crying through it all, screaming almost non-stop. Maybe another tooth on its way.
It’s midnight and I still have to do something for Global Voices.
Marta’s watching me type, but as soon as I try to lay her down, she cries.
Oh God.

Almost forgot: regarding today’s game, Mishah’s being ambiguous. In his dream tonight, we lost, but there was no score. And yesterday, we won in his dream, 1:0. He wrote me that the only thing that’s clear is that it’s not gonna be a shameful game.
(Are there adult-looking devices for little kids: a laptop, a [...]

Almost forgot: regarding today’s game, Mishah’s being ambiguous. In his dream tonight, we lost, but there was no score. And yesterday, we won in his dream, 1:0. He wrote me that the only thing that’s clear is that it’s not gonna be a shameful game.
(Are there adult-looking devices for little kids: a laptop, a [...]

Have been trying to write about it for way over a month now:
My wonderful friend Tanya, the one I wrote about in that New York Times piece back in 2004, is in New York City now!!!
She’s been awarded a scholarship to attend the summer Yiddish language program at NYU – this one, I guess.
I’m [...]

Have been trying to write about it for way over a month now:
My wonderful friend Tanya, the one I wrote about in that New York Times piece back in 2004, is in New York City now!!!
She’s been awarded a scholarship to attend the summer Yiddish language program at NYU – this one, I guess.
I’m [...]

Have been trying to write about it for way over a month now:
My wonderful friend Tanya, the one I wrote about in that New York Times piece back in 2004, is in New York City now!!!
She’s been awarded a scholarship to attend the summer Yiddish language program at NYU – this one, I guess.
I’m [...]

Someone somewhere wrote that last time he went to see a movie was The Titanic ten years ago.
My immediate inner reaction was, Oh my God, has it been ten years already? I haven’t seen The Titanic but I babysitted my friends’ 1 1/2-year old while they went to see it; it was also the [...]

Someone somewhere wrote that last time he went to see a movie was The Titanic ten years ago.
My immediate inner reaction was, Oh my God, has it been ten years already? I haven’t seen The Titanic but I babysitted my friends’ 1 1/2-year old while they went to see it; it was also the [...]

Time flies: it’ll soon be three weeks since Marta and I are here. I may briefly go to the city this weekend – I’ll probably experience culture shock there.
I’m so used to living here by now that I really envy the people on the upper floors: I wish I could hang my stuff out to [...]




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    • Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S. friends! 14 minutes ago
    • Transcarpathian TV: 3 channels; monthly salary UAH 1,000-1,500 ($120-$180); equipment scarce; politics abounds (UKR) http://bit.ly/7pvI7K 15 hours ago
    • Same piece on U.S. spin doctors in Ukr, but a bit off-topic: Taras Kuzio is the only guy who's quoted saying "the Ukraine" - twice. Wild. 1 day ago
    • "So why go to New Jersey and lose for 100 grand when you [can] go to Peru and lose for a million?” (James Carville, Clinton's ex-strategist) 1 day ago
    • <-- ...a little bit damaging to your reputation. But if you go to Peru and you run a presidential race and you lose, no one knows or cares." 1 day ago
    • Here's why they are here: “If you help elect a president & then you get involved in a governor’s race & you lose, it’s going to be ... --> 1 day ago
    • U.S. political consultants in Ukraine, assisting Yushch, Yanuk, Yulia and Yatsenyuk: http://bit.ly/2lvtGm 1 day ago
    • Yulia, our Janus: after her fun chat w/ Putin, her MPs draft a bill to recognize UPA fighters as WWII combatants http://bit.ly/7GXKG4 (RUS) 1 day ago
    • So, 5 years since Maidan, we have a Putin-friendly Tymoshenko & a Yanukovych who's sort of critical of Putin :) http://bit.ly/08rYzbN (RUS) 2 days ago
    • Bookmarks restored. Nearly all of them. Hated to be reminded of how much I depend on technology. 3 days ago
    • Firefox has deleted my bookmarks overnight. All of them, damn it. Feels like coming back home to find that all your furniture is gone. 3 days ago
    • RT @skovalyov: Вера Ульянченко вышла на сцену и вручает медальки. Оранжевая КПСС. Идолы новые - традиции старые. #UOR5 3 days ago
    • Our Brezhnev of a president misnames Medvedev, while Saakashvili tries hard not to giggle (UKR) http://bit.ly/6O1TnY 5 days ago
    • Putin trying to impress Tymoshenko with his cab driver sense of humor (RUS) http://bit.ly/53JbUe 5 days ago
    • Global Voices Online - Russia: Blogging the Winter in Yakutia http://bit.ly/3SXULU 6 days ago
    • Not sure why, but I always compare Ukr/Rus $bn figures (e.g. Ukr's $28bn in reserves) to Khodorkovsky's pre-arrest $15bn personal fortune... 1 week ago
    • "Ukraine still has $28bn in foreign currency reserves" - FT, http://bit.ly/3aLryc (via ForeignNotes, http://bit.ly/gNXFe ) 1 week ago
    • I just don't get it: schools & theaters closed in Kyiv because of flu, but Junior Eurovision does take place, w/ Yulia as one of the guests 1 week ago