Of Foreigness, Silly Oberlinians, and Canada Dry

So.. today I am going to write a really fast post.

BLARGHEDEEBLARGHEBLARGH

...jk

Anyways, today I didn't do much. Finished the rough draft of the super important article of superness. I hope my boss reads it quickly so I can make it a not-rough-draft.

It's a thousand words long. This is bad because it has to be 800. But then my boss's boss was like OMG you could totally summarize that down to 400. I was like EXCUSE ME?! NO I CAN'T! Then I told him that if they cut it down that much I wouldn't read it. And he was like "Oh, you'll read it, and we will cut it. There may be blood." Silly Jeff.

Stephen at work is very absent minded. He's always so diligently working and then he starts talking to himself in programming jargon, occasionally explaining it to me as if I have some kind of clue about what he is saying. Also, every time I tell him anything about being annoyed/upset/ blah about something he looks at me as though he is scared and says 'sorry?' or just doesn't say anything. Silly socially awkward Oberlinians.


I skyped with my BF and my other friends from home. If I can call it that... I think I can... even though I don't live there. WTF. forget that debate. But yeah, I spoke with Denise, and Jason, and Maggie, and yeah. And then my BF's interwebs died and I was sad. But I still got to talk to people so that was good.

I bought Canada Dry today. Not to make alcoholic beverages, silly. I just like to drink it. Also, my BF kept drinking it in front of me on Skype and I got a pretty bad craving. It's just like ARRGHH GIVE ME THE SODA PLEEASE.

So I bought it for 1.75. It was a medium sized bottle, so the price will do. I also bought cheap ice cream. Yay for being unhealthy. But I did eat spinach today, and whole wheat cereal and a whole wheat wrap so HA. I also walk every weekend(well, every day, but its not super far. Probably 35 minutes a day) I should also play DDR more. Being healthy is important.

I shaved. In Oberlin a lot of girls don't shave, so nobody really cared. It's too hot to wear pants or even leggings. And my roommates don't turn on the air conditioning really so I just have to deal with it.

I talked to my awesome Korean friend Karen last night. She was telling me about how in Korea apparently being unique is like an insult. Everyone thinks conformity is the only way, and dresses the same. Karen.. she cut her hair and got a nose piercing and she also smokes (which apparently it is OK for guys to smoke but not for girls) and some girl on the bus was like "god I hate that girls style. It's so unique."

That's pretty crazy isn't it? See, Americans? Not everyone in every country values individuality. BUT OMG HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!?! It is. Deal with it.

Speaking of foreigness, another friend of mine, Margo (a Russian friend to be exact who I've known since I was 4) came back from Russia today. This is a pretty big deal since she's been away for a month and I must say I am quite happy that she is back. I will have to ask her lots of questions about how her trip in Russia went since I am rather out of touch with.. that. I'm one of those damned home country- betrayers that moved away from her homeland and now prefers the uh.. new land?

I see the flaws in both Russia and America (yeah, I'm not an America lover either). They both have their extremes which I dislike (I think happy mediums are good, you know, super rude bitchyness kinda sucks but really fake 'nice nice' bullshit does too).

Because you know, where I'm from in Russia (aka Siberia) life kinda sucks (I mean, its freezing ass cold most of the year, and they don't have nearly the resources of big cities like Moscow or St. Petersburg) so people aren't very friendly and most of my relatives have depression and quite a lot of them died under bad circumstances and its just freaking depressing as hell.

Also the culture is kinda polar opposite to America. Happiness isn't valued. Independence is.. kinda valued. I even wrote a poem about my emo trip of emo. Though I don't feel like posting it here. If you care enough to have it I can send it to you, just comment on here or something.

Obviously I like things about Russia too or I wouldn't have bothered to keep the language and learn the culture, etc etc. I have Russia inside of me, even if my relatives don't see it.

You know my moms uncle saw me grown up for the first time when I visited after freshmen year. He basically looked at me for a couple of seconds, hugged me, and was like "I need to.. measure you up.. " or something like that.

Basically, he concluded I was a good person by just looking at me. I don't know if that's really.. valid.. but whatever. I have this giant ass diary I kept while I was in Russia. Probably I should type it all out. But that would take a long time. Egh.

I'm trying to make my entries more accesible for readers by breaking up long paragraphs. I know I tend to ramble, sorry about that!