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[kawehilani]

Today's a very important day in my city: 68 years ago the Siege of Leningrad was lifted. I went to the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery where over half a million of civilians and soldiers who died during the siege are buried - it's customary to bring flowers to their graves on September 8 (the day the Siege began in 1941), January 27, and May 9 (Victory Day in Russia). Some of my relatives are buried there, too.

After that, I went to Yabloko's office and filled out an application for the position of a member of an election committee. I've no idea if any good will come out of this, but it certainly beats sitting still and doing nothing, and I'm way too annoyed at the authorities for treating us honest citizens of the country like... hamsters.

And after that, I went to my friend Olga's place, and we drank a bottle of white wine and watched yesterday's episode of The Finder. I must admit that I enjoyed the previous two episodes more, but the characters are still very nice and interesting.

And now I have to translate five pages (deadline: tomorrow!). Ouch. Maybe I should start with making myself another Starbucks mug of hot black coffee.

Comments

[leia_solo]

Russia is such a beautiful country! I hope you get the position at the committee.

[kawehilani]

I understand that my chances are very high! They promised to call me back by mid-February (the election is scheduled for March 4).

[deathgaze]

Oh wow, 5 page translation? You might need more than just one other mug of coffee :P

[kawehilani]

OMG, I just opened my Gmail and found two more translations to be made by Monday. Luckily, I bought a whole pack of coffee today :)

[feelslikerain]

That's a really awesome way of remembering your elders, I like the flowers multiple times a year thing. It's a shame the government couldn't get with the program and start treating you like real people :(

Good luck with the translations!

PS. the reply section popped up right by the Firefly theme song and apparently my brain knows the tune well enough that I read the first couple lines as the right tune and was horribly confused til I saw that it was actually Firefly and not something I was making up to be Firefly lol

[kawehilani]

You know, I often hear people talking about how the memory of World War II and the Great Patriotic War (this is how we call the period from the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941 to the end of the war) is gradually fading and becoming more and more abstract for younger people. But I still see lots of young people who are genuinely interested and keen on preserving the memory.

Oh, I love the theme song from Firefly - I even use it as a ringtone! I watched the series once (although I re-watched the pilot episode later, when I was preparing for an RPG based on this series), and can't say I was really thrilled - but the characters and the cast were really good! And right now I'm watching a Canadian TV series I'd never even consider for watching if it weren't for Jewel Staite - Kaylee was my favourite Firefly character!