Archive for October 17th, 2006

October 17, 2006 in Uncategorized

Moving back to Besarabka was stressful: we haven’t got much stuff, but for some reason it occupied way too much space – you should’ve seen the van we were riding in, how packed it was, and me in the midst of it all, with Marta asleep on my tit, all stuck in an unexpected traffic [...]

October 17, 2006 in Uncategorized

Moving back to Besarabka was stressful: we haven’t got much stuff, but for some reason it occupied way too much space – you should’ve seen the van we were riding in, how packed it was, and me in the midst of it all, with Marta asleep on my tit, all stuck in an unexpected traffic [...]

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    • RT @roxolanus explore Kyiv virtually http://ow.ly/MjiI - only downtown so far, but still you can turn the camera 360 degrees 6 hours ago
    • RT @politiko Візи і Україна http://url4.eu/vyqz - Visas & Ukraine: green - no entry visas needed, yellow - visa on arrival... 9 hours ago
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    • Time of the year when dressing Marta for a walk is so exhausting: when both of us are ready, I wish she could go on that walk by herself. 3 days ago
    • While I'm at it, here's another GV translation of another Rus photographer's post - Oleg Klimov's - on extreme poverty http://bit.ly/7kL7m5 3 days ago
    • I often catch myself thinking that many people who complain abt low salaries aren't qualified to get paid at all. Not always the case, sure. 3 days ago
    • This post has, of course, reminded me of the time we were searching for papa, how the cops didn't have paper to print the Missing posters on 3 days ago
    • My GV translation of Sergei Maximishin's post on bureaucracy & incompetence @ Ukr defense ministry http://bit.ly/4yU5Hq 3 days ago
    • Am translating this wonderful text http://bit.ly/4OWrCU (RUS) by my favorite photographer, Sergei Maximishin. Furious. 3 days ago
    • Normally, 1sq m in that area would cost you from $4,000 to $15,000. Since 1991, some 70 bookstores have been shut down in Kyiv. Суки. 4 days ago
    • Some people have just bought "Syayvo" bookstore; paid approx. UAH2.7mln ($340,000) for 364sq m (UKR) http://bit.ly/7LAtOb 4 days ago
    • Always end up crying when I read Vasily Grossman. Don't read him often because of this. Last time was in 2005, during pregnancy. Powerful. 6 days ago
    • Osip Mandelshtam, on the Armenian language: "Был пресный кипяток в жестяном чайнике, и вдруг в него бросили щепоточку чудного черного чая." 6 days ago
    • Grossman's Armenia text so different from Osip Mandelshtam's or Andrei Bitov's, but reminds me of those 2 still. Result: I'm feeling wistful 6 days ago
    • Reading Vasily Grossman's 1962-63 notes on Armenia. Interesting, moving, funny. Annoying at times. Which only adds to the beauty, vividness. 6 days ago
    • IZO: http://bit.ly/5vx3sI Ukr morality commission vs. a Ukr writer: 'he inserted his finger into her anus' -> 'he tenderly nibbled her ear' 1 week ago
    • Lots of snow today - lovely. But traffic @ 11PM is crazy - as if it's 7PM: http://twitpic.com/skhz6 1 week ago
    • I mean, it's strange to see Vitaly Klitschko's picture (next to his column) right where Gongadze's was all these years... 1 week ago