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06 March 2010 @ 02:43 am

So, the thing that I have with Istanbul is that no matter what I do or where I go - I always come back with my feet hurting like hell. And, of course, the fact that the city is like twice as big as my country, population-wise.  There are people everywhere. A lot of them. Like so 'lot' that everyday feels like a grand protest/march/gay pride/any-other-huge-public-event is taking place right around the corner from your hotel. I feel claustrophobic.

But then there are these beautiful, oriental glass lamps filled with magic and fairy tales that light up the old city, the new city, the Anatolian side, the Bosphorus - everything. And there is Cay (Turkish tea) everywhere with people sitting outside and drinking eat, conversing with each other in slow and low murmurs. And child-musicians - never to forget! Street children playing the lute and the drums, and oh - what a sound! Lonely guitar and violin players, singers and again lute players sitting by the side of this huge human-ocean traffic and singing about the years past with such voice modulations each of them could get a Grammy or whatnot.

There are also huge and fat seagulls flying around even in the downtown, because wherever you go - there is the Sea. And the smell of salty water, and fish - intermingled with ultra-fashionista perfume of these high heels wearing women and men walking by with a haughty attitude. And women clad in completely black clothes, and you cannot even see their eyes - and there are fashion stores for them too! Ha.

Oh, Istanbul - a city of contrasts. (I shall end with a banality).
 
 
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16 February 2010 @ 01:53 pm
I will post more. I promise. I am done with my wanderlust for reality, which overshadowed my lust for virtuality. Mmmm! Kind of seeking balance between the two. Would you belive me if I said that I have nearly stopped writing At.ALL? That is really strange.

Am starting yoga, though. So it should put me back into a balanced state of mind.

Done with NGOs, governments, politics, UN and other hypocritical shit in this world.
Am starting a Queer Cafe in Bishkek. Come see me, if you're around. Will post pictures for those, who aren't.

Hugs and love!
 
 
whereabouts: Bishkek
 
 
 
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16 February 2010 @ 01:45 pm
So seems like I have been cut... by my lj-friends. What a loss. :(
 
 
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12 August 2008 @ 12:20 pm
 Also, wtf - three (THREE) entries in the whole of 2008? I have never done that. You were right, [info]sweeter , I must have died in the interim period, and now someone has resurrected me using dark magick. Ooh, I am a zombie, who hates politics. What a nuisance. 

In other news:
- I cut my hair
- I have a dream partner
- I am 24
- I have written a shadow report for UN CEDAW convention 
- Produced several videos, brochures, and one magazine
- I live in four different houses
- I want to RP >.> 

 
 
melody: Ypey - Without You
 
 
 
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12 August 2008 @ 11:59 am

FUCK POLITICS!

 
 
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27 September 2007 @ 11:21 pm
Writing an MA thesis in ten days is a fucking pain in the hypothetical dinosaur's arse. Am staying at the academy premises, where there is the blessed Internet, of which I was deprived ever since I came back. Need the world of information to fill in some gaps in the thesis, et cetera - and then tomorrow, with god's or demon's speed - I shall have my thesis all shiny and ready for the fucking bastards to have. 

And then... there shall be much debauchery to be had: wine to drink, virgins to spoil... err-- had my Evil!Wizard-Boy tophat on, sorry. 
 
 
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20 September 2007 @ 02:15 pm
Holy-- it's been quite some time since I've updated this thing, it seems. Not much to update with except that I'm back to Bishkek, waiting on an answer re being back to Vienna, juggling facebook with gmail -- all in synchronicity with writing my ma thesis deadlined for 28 September. Thirty-five pages. Only eight ready. My life couldn't be more exciting, I do believe. 

Will, most certainly, write more once I'm done with the academic monster - to reflect on this and that, reinvent some things, and start afresh.
 
 
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23 August 2007 @ 11:51 am
ALKLKJDFLK:DJSL:FKDSJA!!!!!!

I can't believe my luck! One of the interns here at the OSCE is also a manga/anime geek - fuck, where were we all these two months?!!! Anyway, I put up Death Note forever on my facebook profile status thing, and she saw it, and was like - whoa! So we get to talk, and she says there's going to be an ANIME CONVENTION in Vienna this coming Friday through Sunday! I'm beyond happy, speechless, and completely frenzied, along with crazy, and totally just - HAAHH! 

Now, the thing is, I don't speak German. And I've no idea how to buy my ticket and whatever else it says on the website of the convention. Bahhh! But-- AniNight FOREVER!!!

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22 August 2007 @ 08:17 am
I have a confession to make.

Death Note is love forever and there cannot be anything better than that. It prickles my skin, it makes me hold my breath, wriggle my toes in anticipation of the next brilliant move - and the uncanny resemblances and the twisted irony and the subtle tragism of it all! 

Ahhh, Death Note - you shall be the death of me. Why did I have to get addicted to you when I have my master thesis dangling as a damocle's sword over me? Deadline of 28 September, anyone? And there's still so much Death Note has in store for me!

I'm torn! I'm agonizing! Help! Help!
 
 
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10 August 2007 @ 07:32 am
I am a thankless, ungrateful-- oh wait, you don't really start "happy" entries like that, do you? :)

Well, I was just hit by a thought that even in the most dire of circumstances, there is always a positive side to it - no matter what that it entails. It may be blasphemous or callous what I'm saying, but, to me... it's turned out to be like that. In those rather unhappy times that I've been having for the past two weeks, when I was nearly publicly wallowing in my self-imposed misery - I also finally realized how many good and concerned friends I had. Friends that genuinely care. It really amazes me, leaves me breathless, to think that somebody behind that pc screen would be furrowing their eyebrows and thinking up advices on how to help me with this and that. And instead of thanking, I disappear indefinitely, like a selfish child. I hope I will be of help to you too, guys, whenever you need it.

Just to reflect on it - there was a moment, on my birthday, when I thought that everything was going wrong. A sudden rain came in, after a whole week of suffocating heat - and how fresh that was! The rain poured down on buildings and asphalt and people, and then in a few minutes, there was sun coming out as well! It was priceless, I felt like, sillily, it was Nature's gift to me to cheer me up, to let me know that better times are a-coming. And come they did! 

New friends, and smiles, and happy exceptions - my visa is going to be extended! - and dear friends writing back... all going so well, it's almost unbelievable. And I want to preserve that moment. I want to remember that feeling of quiet happiness, when you smile in the most unexpected situations, just because it feels good - inside. 

Thank you all. :)
 
 
 
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06 August 2007 @ 09:50 pm

Kind of thoughtless, at the moment. Listening to Linkin Park as my roommate is literally in my room. We're both using the "free" wifi, basically - stealing it. (Like a white kid from a well-to-do family bragging about pissing on the walls... so fucking rebellious.)

I've been losing the point of contact with my happy balanced self. Many external factors-- does that mean I am an extrovert, by the way? If I were an introvert, I wouldn't let these things get to me, right? I'd be oblivious to the outside world, lost inside my own, with lilac rainbows and sounds of your voice... Agh, he's inside my head.

Except that not, no, I'm not with you. Watched the Simpsons for the second time today. I laughed nonstop at a few jokes, but the best part was "I can't go on anymore. No you can... Oh shut up. No you shut up. Oh real mature. How could you say that?" exchange between Homer the Tired and Homer the Consientious. (And the whipping!)

I was offered staying in Vienna for an additional month, everything provided, etc... was going to. Now turns out I might have problems with extending the visa. Don't know if it's worth it. (Let it get the better of me... or just laziness? Or hurt pride?)

Was thinking of going cruising through the seas of light depression, then thought otherwise. Still, my boat's sailing down the mountain river of [/end poetic nonsense].

 
 
 
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23 July 2007 @ 04:26 pm
it's actually nauseating. no, not harry potter, i haven't even read that one. although i already know what happens, considering i voluntarily spoiled myself three times reading my friends list. i cried when i found she'd killed fred off. i'm going to cry again now.--

but yes, it's nauseating... physically. almost like before a parachute jump.
 
 
 
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17 July 2007 @ 08:32 am
These days I write nothing but random- if I ever do write. 

It is very hot in here and I am loathing the weather to the very last drop of my deep-ruby blood. And something else, which is so insignificant, it does not deserve a mention.

I do miss writing crazy pretty guys though. And it is so hot, my brain is not functioning properly anymore. 

Plus, I lost the idea of a purpose that this journal once had, I think. Or any journal, in fact. Do I write memoires? Thoughts? Funny anecdotes about people that do not exist? 

Or maybe it is just the heat. A high-maintenance machine that only works in temperatures not higher than +24 C. Maybe I should move to the Arctic Circle and be all cool and eskimo. Because come on - whose brain is not prone to melting under THIRTY FUCKING NINE DEGREES in a continental climate?!

I want to wrap myself up in an ice-cube...
 
 
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19 June 2007 @ 02:39 pm
Or not so random? Well, voila, my dear friends - I am in Vienna at last. Beautiful, very beautiful-- so beautiful I bruised my knee today at lunch, as we were walking around to find a place to eat at. I was staring at all the buildings - wide-eyed and gaping, and so didn't notice the difference in height between the alley and the traffic road. Gah. But I say- this beauty deserves a lot more of the blood, and I am prepared to pay it. 

Just now I had the most delicious cup of tea with milk, sugar and a little bit of espresso, which I made myself. It's all about the colour and the consistence, I think. You do not even have to taste it- just by the sight of it <'delicious-looking'> VS <'un-delicious looking> you can judge its quality. It's that ephemeral art of cooking, nay, the art of Creation. Ahhh, I feel like a deity today. "Let there be Light!" I said, "And chocolate and Mozart!" I added a little later. (But in time enough.)

Pictures to come! Although only after I acquire a digital camera- good and not too expensive. If anyone knows of one that could fit this description (vague, I know), would you let me know? I am aiming at something that would not cost me more than 200-230 euros.
 
 
whereabouts: OSCE Secretariat, Vienna
 
 
 
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12 June 2007 @ 09:26 am

I think this phrase: "For the fucking sake of all things fucking holy!" - is hilarious. 

In other news- the lost internets is back at home. It's sitting in the corner, woefully crying and regretting all the things it did. Especially the sudden disappearance for TWO weeks. I said, "Bitch, that's what you get for running away from your slave Master," before beating it up and giving a candy to palliate the pain. 

Hm, and Vienna? Well, it's three days till my departure, and it all feels very surreal. Kind of not-real even. Where's the excitement, where's the dancing in the rain, I ask? But! I have decided once there I will get myself a photo-video-camera, so all my creative dreams would come true. Oh the shorties that I would make then!


 
 
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30 May 2007 @ 03:21 pm
I hate falling down with a flu in the middle of pre-summer heat. Fuck you.

Also, yesterday I almost lost my passport forever, which would have sucked on more than just one level. First of all, there would have been no Vienna for me. Second of all, I would have been forced to get a new passport, which costs a lot. And third of all, I would have been humiliated and depressed beyond earthly comprehension. Good thing it didn't get lost completely, ja? I was running around making copies of documents for the Shengen visa, and apparently dropped the passport at one of the numerous internet cafes. Not that I realized it back then. So there was I, standing with my colleagues, also going to Vienna, discussing this and that. And then one of them asks if all my documents are with me. I scoff (because, naturally, I'm all set and cool), and pull out all my documents to show off. The Passport's gone.

Shock!

Good thing I didn't cry in front of them. Just my eyes grew glaciated, as I was running away from them and into a taxi, which took me to the last internet cafe I had visited. And miracle of miracles- the passport was there! Sillily (I like that word, by the way), I cracked down and cried all my distress out on the way back to the taxi. Screw you (and hug you), world. Don't play tricks on me!

Although, I guess, it really was my fault, for being so scatter-brained and reckless. I really need to pull my act together, I think.

Also, yesterday I realized that when I smile for photos, I corrugate my nose, which makes me ugly. Haha. I need to control that too. Sometimes I think I have a subconscious desire to look ugly, so I don't get into this whole emotional love/blah-blah bullshit. And, my voice is kind of cool, I realized that too. A colleague from the academy burned some dvds from our parties and all, and I saw myself there, both corrugating the nose and talking real cool. Go me!
 
 
 
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28 May 2007 @ 10:33 pm
Like a chrysalis waiting for the perfect moment to strike the world with awe. Until then, no time for adventure to happen to us.  Busy bees, passing by magical non-sequiturs in a frantic search of jobs and money and easy life. Ta.
 
 
 
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14 May 2007 @ 04:00 pm

S-s-slee-e-e-py. While at work. Oh how I wish I could plump down unto my bed to sleep and sleep and sleep.

Also, apologies for writing sucky disenchanted posts like the previous one. It's not me, it's the hormonal imbalance that strikes all women once in every month. Won't say more, because I'm--

S-s-slee-e-e-py.
(Maybe I'll go to the office bathroom and sleep for a bit there.)

 
 
 
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13 May 2007 @ 05:58 pm
I'm thinking of branching out. I have grown bored of the current Me. This journal was pretty cool in the beginning, but then I added some people, who made me conscious (and ashamed) of its whimsical beauty, so it slowly grew more and more mundane. Did you know I hate the mundane? My biggest fear, I recoil from it in terror whenever and wherever I can smell it.

This brings me to the current revelation-pattern about myself. I worry about what people think or might think about me too much. It influences my actions, words, even thoughts. Half of my morality is a societal inscription on the blueprint of my personality. I only follow it so I will not be considered bad and evil. (Even though I rather am.)

I like people liking me. (And dislike being disliked.) It's chronic, sometimes I think.  I act sweet and nice-- although,  it is not acting per se, but rather an aspect of my personality, which I exhibit more often than the darker ones. I should not underestimate and plague myself for no reason, so it is the truth. I am kind and nice and sympathetic - I do know that. I want to help everyone, I want to sacrifice my life for the sake of humankind, I want to do everything in my power to decrease the human suffering. But I am also arrogant. I am envious. Petulant. Cruel.  Inconsiderate of others' feelings. There is more, but I hide all of it under the exterior of my better traits. Because I want to be liked. So I subjugate myself. I allow others to feel they are better than me. I display myself as a harmless, whimsical creature, who is fun to be around.

In the virtual world I am how I would like to be. Ultimately independent, upholding my principles, speaking what I think, acting what I speak. Here, I am the better Me. The one that does not hide the occasional ugliness of her character. The one that does not hide behind the sweet exterior. I am not afraid of anything or anyone here.

It bothers me that I am getting entrenched in the environment of my reality life - more and more. Soon there will not be people, who do not know me. With whom I could start it all over again. Become a tabula rasa. Soon I will be too deep within the golden cage to exercise my independent nature. The survivalist tactic will have me be my sweet self, so I could be liked. And promoted. Earning enough money to provide my parents with travels to the most exotic and beautiful places they could ever think of. Enough money to put them on a pedestal three-stories higher than everyone else. Enough money to never let them feel useless in this life. I could betray the rest of the humanity for them.

Isn't this evil? -
 
 
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10 May 2007 @ 12:02 pm
I'm in for Vienna!

::dies happy::
 
 
 
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09 May 2007 @ 03:51 pm


The MomentousCollapse )
 
 
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07 May 2007 @ 03:43 pm
Entry 1.

It's the day, or maybe two, before my summer is finalized. I find myself getting increasingly anxious- which, I tried to stifle during the last three weeks. Some things matter, some don't- but, it should always be the latter. Then you do not get attached to anything, you do not suffer. It's the philosophy of negation: negation as the possibility of a post-structuralist quasar-esque discourse on the meta-narrative of existential concepts of rapture and rot.

It's the biforkality - I either go this way or that way. And as much as I do not want to be wanting anything, I want to go that  way. I look Westward, because it is the end of a consumptive era, where chocolate is real chocolate and there are lots of pinstripe-jacketed gays. I want to gape and gawk at gothic cathedrals and obese women. I want to eat real pizza and do not pay for it. I want to travel to where Hermann Hesse lived and worked. I want a lot of things.

Still, if the powers that be, the noosphere, god/s, Lalah- decide that I must go the other way, there will be other adventures awaiting me. Unsurprisingly. I either stay in the region or scout out into Europe. If I stay in the region, I might accomplish a lot more-- and, logically, I feel that would be the right way for me to go. Work there would help my master thesis and be an all-around useful experience.

BUT! butbutbut.
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Entry 2.

The skies had toppled that day-- yesterday, I realized the difference between friendly likings for and Something-More. How incredibly lost behind the Time's galloping I was. Reality knocked on my door, not harshly--- -- - gently, rather. My heart only whined some, but that aching was worth it. How foolish of me it was to mistake any sympathy for a passion: but I learned! Cogito, ergo sum.

Books only simplify it. Or do the contrary. Like an elegant dance between intricacy and simplicity, like Foucault's Pendulum, like.
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Entry 3.

How to embrace the unembracable?
 
 
 
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07 May 2007 @ 10:25 am
Thus marks a new state of being for me. I have decided on suicide via Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Right now, after reading a few passages while on the road from the library-- I have got a dawning suspicion that it must be an allegorized incantation.

Also, yesterday I read half of Kuttner's short stories combined. That was quite a good read. Am, in addition, going to re-read Moby Dick.

It's all, probably, in an attempt to fill my head with something other than scraps of unfinished thoughts and stylized visions. Lala.
 
 
 
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23 April 2007 @ 07:58 pm
I miss the days I have never had. Spiraling around me in between the rustling of spring trees, just beneath the vast evening sky firmament with  half-stormy clouds glued unto it. And music, light and non-existent. And spider-webs, gossamer, in the corner of my window. No, those days were about moving along the tribal paths, with my nomadic group of five. As we lie resting. And contemplating what is above. And the wind, kissing our cheeks, fondling our hair.
Slightly feverish.
Imprisoned within the reality. Beating against its walls, unable to escape- because the key is already inside, hanging above.  To use it is to destroy our Selves. To find the door...
(To let go of it--
to dissolve in the fleeting beauty of a moment.)
 
 
 
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17 April 2007 @ 12:10 pm

[A witness has stated that he was of East Asian descent, "around 19," and had a "very serious but very calm look on his face."]

Sounds like a script to yet another film about a psychotic cold-blooded Asian hitman, whose hands do not tremble when taking lives of 33 people. Suddenly, it is not reality, but a Sur-reality, or Sub-reality: not really somewhere in between. Add to this a picture-perfect bishonen and we will all have a box office hit for everyone to shed their tears upon. 

America - you are the twisted of them all. 

 
 
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13 April 2007 @ 01:04 am
I have not died. Yet. Although I am close. [/pathos there]

No words, honestly. A lot of things going on, and me -swimming in the ocean of happenstances- unable to speak, because you do know speaking of things makes them disappear?

Today I drank two bottles of beer with groupmates and then went to a meeting with a German Ambassador, who talked a whole one and a half hours about nothing. The world swirled around me in sepia tones and it was nice. I liked the Ambassador though, - he looked like a grey-haired half-wolf half-fox.

Then I realize it is all playing; at any moment I can stop the carousel and get going with Big Things. A toast to this. (Why am I not sleeping yet?)
 
 
 
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30 March 2007 @ 10:37 am
Yes, it is a mini-rant, so run away while you still can. Because it's not really a rant, and it is not really new. Just the ages-old question of WHY AM I SUCH A SLACKER WHEN IT COMES TO THE ACADEMIA?!
The newest instance of my chronic procrastination: I have three hours left to write a three-page academic article review, and I haven't even read half of that 32-pages article. And the time I had since the beginning of this morning (that is, the moment I actually got up from the bed) I spent on reading stupid things on the net and then ONE HOUR on creating this stupid icon. And it is not even pretentious enough. And I'm cold, because the weather around here has worsened and we were thrown back into the thicket of gloomy November with long-winded rains and centipedal storm clouds.

[Five minutes later, actually:] And this article sucks fabulously. I have 32-pages of extremely profession-specific jargon with driest language and unimaginable logic. And I am supposed to review it. And I lost the sample review page our professor gave us in aid.

......

Sometimes I really think I need professional help. Because this is just-- BEYOND the comprehensible. Why do I always waste my time and leave things to the very very very end, when the possibility of me failing is actually more real than that of winning? (And, simultaneously, why am I still writing here instead of plunging headfirst into the article and cracking it?)

[ETA 1.5 hours later:]
I changed the article, and, consequently, the topic of my review article 1.5 HOURS before the deadline. Aren't I simply brilliant?
 
 
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23 March 2007 @ 06:23 pm

I hate bullets. So I am thinking of going with a table. But the thing is-- I think this new LJ kills creativity. Just look at this- you want a table? Here you go, we can do it for you! You want [insert whatever]? There you go! Now I do not even want to use a table because it is so utterly <i>easy</i> to get it. 

In other news, I have been having very illuminating thoughts and dreams and moments of inspired understandings-- but they are all buried beneath the googoodolls at the moment. It's the end of the week, and here I go with another pointless entry to be added to the list. I kind of hate myself for not writing anything meaningful. And gods, just look at that, I even forgot it was the anniversary of my stopping writing original fiction in English! How rude of me. If my memory serves me well, last time I wrote an original story was on March 13. Since then- nada. Although I did start a few projects in Russian, etc. 

[Edited:] My dear friends, you are so very lucky I decided to scratch out the paragraph that was instead the one I am typing right now. You were saved the unnecessary pathos of a whining self-pityfience. 

I have also been swimming in the Lake of Illusory Lights and it was a lot of fun. I still dip into it from time to time, nostalgia, starlight and all. <i>And</i> I have decided to start up a notebook of Lists. I will list my current projects in there, my future projects, my one-word trigger ideas, my celebrity crushes, my science idols, my favourite words/ flavours of tea/chocolate/tangerines. Tra-ta-ta.

In addition to all this, I feel like I am stuck somewhere in the middle between the previous and the next levels of-- I don't even know what. Mostly, it is regarding where does writing belong in my life, and what I actually intend to do with said life. Ah the eternal questions.

 
 
 
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16 March 2007 @ 12:45 pm

I'm so so so so so so so so sick! ::sniffles:: My nose is running, and my body's become completely unresponsive to any kinds of stimuli, and I've a headache from hell. And I'm supposed to be going to work after classes as well. Life's tex sux0rz. :(   
But maybe I won't actually go there. I think I'll just write up the report and send it via email to Da Boss, with an explanation note that I'm lethally sick and will not be gracing this planet's soil in a few days from now. That could be a sufficient justification for my absence, no? 

Okay and melodramatics? No no no. But apparently it is very much a YES. I'm thinking now though- it's kinda fun, being so dramatic. It enhances life. Or something. And I think the whole world's conspired against me. And my back kinda hurts.

And yesterday I thought of a new interesting collocation - a scorched rose. You know, a dark ruby red one with black edges, withering away with so much dignity it's shame-inducing. 

I kind of think I was put on this earth so after my death millions of writers and cinema directors could make loads of money from describing real and unreal events from my life. Rock on! ::le sneeze::

 
 
 
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08 March 2007 @ 11:35 am
So I should be actually cleaning around the house right now. Or, more like- around my room. And get rid of all this trash. Because trash is everywhere - on my computer, book shelves, wardrobe, beneath the desk; on the windowsill, under the carpet, behind the stereosystem. Dammit, it's even in my pockets. Whenever did my life get so trashy?

But of course, as in any good trashy movie, I am not doing what I am supposed to be doing. Instead, I am pondering the existence of god of libertarianism. Because libertarianism rules. Plus, I got an A- from my political theory teacher on this very ambitious project of mine, wherein I argue that state is an illegitimate and artificial construct, and that living in small eco-systems is way better. So blah-blah, this and that-- but this got me thinking about my future.

Very relevant: my outlook on what I do in my future changes every half a year or so. Nine months ago I thought I want to do conflict prevention. Then I got infatuated with the idea of sustainable development. Then with dethroning international development aid. Very recently I got interested in diplomacy and the art of manipulation. (Especially bearing in mind I saw Kubrick's <i>Dr Strangelove</i> a few weeks prior to this.) Twenty minutes ago I was thinking of going back to my journalism roots and establishing an awesome newspaper of European standards, so I'd be the forerunner of Rennaissance de Journalisme in Central Asia.  And now I am thinking of combining my love for science fiction with my love for political theory.

Someone help me before I burn myself out? There are so many ideas inside this cranium- so many beautiful and hardly realizable ideas. I don't want to die with the thought that none of them ever came to live. Maybe I should start building my own network of world changers? We'd be called an Architects of Future League. And we'd wear these cool elm wristbands to distinguish ourselves from others. And we'd smoke ghalyan.
 
 
melody: Nick Cave - Stagger Lee
 
 
 
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26 February 2007 @ 02:58 pm

Whoa-- it's been so long since I've last posted, I even had to go a few pages back to catch up on things that have been happening/posted on the flist front. But because I'm a lazy cat (not an indifferent one, I promise) I've failed to comment on those. Although, probably, the fact that my brain has been academically functional for twelve hours now without any break, should be quite an excuse. Or I'd like to think so anyway.

This is really a very pointless entry, just to celebrate an easy access to brilliant depths of internet. The one at home is just as half-dead as 1.5 weeks ago, so major suckage there. Also, suckage for the biforkality of life, even if there's no such word in the English language. Like, when you have to decide on the path your life takes, and you know it's the decisive moment? And you have to choose the rational one, because for the creative one you lack the necessary funds and blessings and-- ::gasp!:: - talent? (Also, in a red line there should be LAZINESS sewed over the wound.) And when after the decision is taken all stamped and gold, you see something that makes you envy those lucky bastards, who get to be all crazy and bohemian. 

For example, I can't even write. All I do is stylize, and even there, I seem to have reached my limits. I have stopped writing pretentiously original fiction almost a year ago, and all my attempts so far (in Russian, at least) turned out to be stillborn. I dislike my ideas extremely-- and those that I like, I have neither the time for nor the concentration to adequately complete. My thoughts are in a disarray, I want to go every-which-way, and this pull is slowly breaking me apart-- or at least, the greenish-purple mist of my imagination, thinning away. There is a thin pellicle covering everything inside that hinders me from tapping at the introverted Self, and all I get are twisted glimpses of what I want and what I need.

I have also taken up smoking...




Okay, that was a joke, but I thought it would have added to the dramatism of my entry tremendously. Too bad I hate cigarettes (even though almost all my villains love them.)

Oh, and I almost forgot the single most important thing - I've gotten addicted to Naruto! The glorious ship of my proud solitude in the ocean of anime-fans has been viciously attacked and is now slowly sinking into the depths of narutomania. Farewell, HMS Anti-Anime, you shall be remembered dearly. [Here we all cry bewailing the loss of the last bastion of anime-scoffage, as I quietly exit the scene.]--

-- err, that is, after I announce that I've finally got loads of money, which I intend to Scrooge McDuck over.

 
 
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14 February 2007 @ 04:03 pm

News from the Eastern Front: lalala! Songs abound, and something else - and the everlasting and all-penetrating scent of S-P-R-I-N-G and upcoming political crises in the country. And eagle-like politicians, who make inspiring speeches on the topic of revolutionary changes. 

Also, I'm failing at getting my well-earned money: our accountant is having problems with 1C. Which means, I'm completely penniless. And my hair has grown a lot. Mhm. Now I need to leave this place a bit earlier and get to the post office to fetch a package my dearest friend Olya has sent to me from Europe. I--

In the most recent moment of uncalled for self-debriefing I discovered the long lost strength and vivacity. And the early Paris charm of light amorousness, like chiffon shawl perfumed with heady scent. And the tinctures of falling-outness from the habitual, as if watching John Alton's chiaroscuro through stained glass. 

Nusuth. I can feel the upcoming heaviness of joy, as it dances through my veins. Hey!

 
 
 
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08 February 2007 @ 08:37 pm
I'm re[thinking]. As always-- there is a whole lot to do so about. No need to list, or even remember. Here we keep all our trash and waste-- positive/negative, passive/aggressive. And something entirely else.

I've been [thinking], as always - how funny the true purpose is, underneath it all, beneath the bedcovers - those satin ones that hide you from me. And how the greatness of it all fits in - a nice algebraic formula. Let us not forget, oh Whoever, let us not forget what we must not forget. The dawns, and the rains, and the purple clouds. And the rays, piercing their way through a Sunday morning, when there is no more will to sleep amidst the sleepers. And how we cry, bending our knees before the greatness of it all.

I saw you, one day as I was soaring amongst the stars. You were laughing quietly, watching from beneath the crystal glasses. And I thought: Do I need you? [I spent one whole day thinking. As always.]

We are an unstarted poem - stopped in the middle of a thought, distracted by a by-passing fleet of geese. Early February, I say.
Think it. Will it. NO.-- allow. Allow the shy smile and the new day behind the oaken doors.

Or maybe - run a-way?

I was [thinking], how hard it is to fall?

{alright. but above it all - there is still the shining absolute. the perfection. and something tells me; hey- where's the icecream? and i say; no idea. but you have to reach out to taste it.}
 
 
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01 February 2007 @ 04:56 pm
I am tired of constantly being upright. When I rest my head against the desk - it feels so much better, with the soft early spring breeze puffing above, as I listen to some relaxing music.

You. Yes, you. Why aren't you calling? Soon I will come to a point of deliberate non-caring, if you do not hurry up.

And I am skipping work, because we got out late from the university, I've a headache, and I need to finish my unstarted paper by midnight.  Oh continuity.

Today I did not have a great hairdo, which is why I feel shitty. My hair-- I've a love/hate relationship going with it. And it has a magic power over my moods and self-estimation. And my wardrobe is all very old and ancient, and I cannot wear anything anymore. Thus, I want to bury myself down. And my creativity has gone somewhere. And this world is against me. No, really.

All this because you don't want to call me. La, la: la.
 
 
 
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26 January 2007 @ 11:01 pm
::gushes::
::gushes::
::gushes::
::gushes::
::gushes::
::gushes::

and, liek--- OMG!

Also-- forgiveness for disappearing for a while. I love you all. I like, love you all, for real. Okay.... maybe not all of you, but you get the point. (And maybe not love, but, you know, something. >.>)

Now to hoping that I don't spoil it all.
 
 
 
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22 January 2007 @ 11:34 am
ooI love life. With all its ups and downs, and joys and miseries - the thick fogs of nostalgia, and feelings of uncared for, and the sudden realizations, and laughing it all out. And walks alone through the city with your earphones on. And coming up with a new way to make up your hair. And feeling like shit when you look like shit.

And then being left wordless, when you try to express this. All this.

Yesterday, I saw the new moon. It was huge, and I could see the rest of it shining through the Earth's shadow. I was transfixed, feeling connected to it. (At one point I thought it was a message for me.) A personal message from god.s.  There were satyrs and fawns lurking in the dark corners of the street, and the trees rustled mystically. And there were the distant stars, a few here and there, bright and calling. There were times when I used to spend hours and hours watching them, and rushing mentally toward them. An unforgettable experience - they grew bigger and bigger, and more 3-D with every second, and their light would get blinding, until I would feel the pull back. And then the unbelievable feeling of loss.

(Schizophrenia, or something?)

No. What I meant was an ode to life. It's sad, a bit, isn't it? How incomprehensible, all of it. A figure with countless edges and sides and planes, and we travel over them, and we overstep the boundaries, and we see new planes - over and over again. Until we die and realize that we've only crawled over 1/millionth of all aspects. I can't understand.
 
 
 
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19 January 2007 @ 08:59 am
How can beauty be conveyed through words? I could never understand this, and yet-- I try, I try, relentlessly. Push myself into it, because there is the urge inside, and it eats away at the walls, constantly. Brings tears to my eyes, as I stop in the middle of a Road, and look onward, upward, leftward, downward - everywhere around myself, and cannot get enough of what is there. It's this beauty that keeps me going, waiting for something new, and it comes - it comes everyday.

It snowed here yesterday. And I decided to walk through the city, instead of taking a bus. I had music in my ears and I danced as I walked (because I don't really care what they will think). And I was smiling, grinning like an idiot - but who says idiots are what we call them? No, I don't call them that. The definition comes--

Wait. The fluffy snowflakes fall down endlessly, mixing up with the world beneath. Look up and see the constellations of snowflakes - look down, and watch the invisible weavers weave the city carpet of white. BUT. In the middle (of the maelstrom) - there is the Blending, where white becomes black and green and yellow, and disappears, and there is no line between what was and what will. Shamanic, even. Something magical.

So she found herself in a fairy tale. The trees were hoarfrosted, black and silver, and above them was the full moon. It was huge and threatening, amidst the forest of Black and Silver. The echo of her breathing came back at her, stronger  hundredfold, and beat her in her chest. And she fell down, and went through the cover of white, and into the endless night, with stars and moons - all dancing about and begging for vanilla ice-cream. (She hated vanilla, really.)

Then, a little red riding hood came up to her and said: "Dry your hair, you might get sick. For outside is the snow-world, and no machines there anymore. No black smoke, no dirt, no pollution. And you can eat that snow, eat from my fingers, and you shall be sated. "

It was like the proverbial manna, except without the sanctimony. (And the despotism behind it.)
 
 
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13 January 2007 @ 05:08 pm
It was a bitter cold day, when my grandmother died. (This is how myths are created.) A thick quintessential white fog covered the part of the Earth, where my clan lives, and we drove at nothing more than 40 kilometres per hour. Or less, I'm not sure. The trees were covered in rime, and every branch, every branchlet was covered in generous amounts of hoar-frost. I thought they came from those blue-and-argent pictures on the walls of my imaginary house. The world was all dressed in white, and even the perfect discus of the sun was snow-white through the winter clouds. Nothing could be seen outside the 10 meter radius of visibility, and only rare cars coming the other way disturbed the serenity of being surrounded by White Nothingness.

And I thought, "Fuck, where is my camera?"
(And I hummed "Sewn" by The Feeling all the way. )

I watched the people come and go - crying, heads bent, and then talking, and chattering away. And there was life bustling about, as my cousins from the rural area hurried to and fro the yurta, with samovars and firewood, and snotty children without jackets balancing on the fences, and cows and sheep and chicken - all living in harmony. And there was the sun, and my dad and his brothers were smiling, discussing something hushedly. There were young daughters and sisters-in-laws helping around, -  whole adjacent streets had sent their children to lend a hand. Not very clean, second-hand dressed, but twinkly-eyed and witty and full of vigour and love for life, they were.

And I drank the most delicious tea there, prepared on crystal clear water, on firewood, outside - by people too happy to treat you.
And I finally understood the most banal thing - Family is everything.

At eleven in the morning the next day they carried her out, covered with expensive brocade. It survived from the dead century, and the woman of the past was seen off to the aether world. We cried - we, women, were not allowed to walk the last walk, only men. We stayed in the yard, and cried, and hoped she was happy again.

(My blind grandfather, whose last strong handshake I still remember, had visited my sister's dreams last week - he walked briskly toward their house, not blind yet, and stately as always.)

She was 94.


 
 
 
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09 January 2007 @ 03:23 pm
OMG, the INTERNETS is BACK!!! ::hugs and never lets it go anymore::

GOD BLESS THE TECHIE ENGINEERS!

In other news - I'm sick, nose dripping and in love with The Orb' "Little Fluffy Clouds". It's like, whoa! Especially when listening to it through the cool and awesome earphones I got.

And... I LOVE YOU, gods, for bringing my internet back. Gah. Love you love you love you. Something-something.

(I'm learning so many new things about myself and the world!) Also, I've had an idea - how about we, my internet friends, set up a Foundation of Music Exchange, of some sorts? Not through the internet, because not all of us can afford downloading music - but exchanging self-made CDs? I could offer you so much, so much! (In exchange, of course, that you give me a glimpse of what else is out there, music-wise, because my knowledge is limited at best.)

Huh? How about that?
 
 
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03 January 2007 @ 04:18 pm

Aww! I couldn't pass this up, I have to post it. I just received a letter from my 21-year-old self. I was so cute! Hahahh!

So, replying myself, point by point:




Phew, that was a long reply to an equally long email.