Wednesday, June 17, 2005 8:36 am

Yesterday was divine!--inexpressible. At any rate, I had better start at the beginning and expostulate later.

Wednesday night, I was exceedingly bored--I really must buy another book... but that's not how I want to spend my money in Moscow! Nina had a Glazunov CD, so we listened to Glazunov (which made me long for a piano and a book of Lieder), and I read Elle, and learned that capoeira, blue furniture, and short haircuts are out, and that blue eyeshadow, Kibballah, and professional massage are in. Or rather, were in/out in March of this year. Really, how many women can afford to acquire new furniture, hair, and religion every month?

Thursday morning, I slept in, although I didn't really need the sleep and probably ought to have gone out to a garden or something instead. The lecture started at 11:00, and was about the economy after the revolution (vaguely interesting).

Afterwards, we had nothing to do, so Sasha, McKenna, Abby, Kelly, and I decided to go to the grocery store and buy candy. We took a short cut through the back woods of the campus, which were invigoratingly gorgeous, and stopped to play at a playground near the "stadium". We swang on the monkey bars and discussed historical reenactment and the philosophy of the business-as-social phenomenon.

At the store, we lingered; I bought a chocolate bar and some of the pink sugary candy-cookies that Nina introduced to me the other night. I am in love with them. Afterwards, everyone went home to eat, shower, and change. I was already dressed for the opera, in my green skirt, and went home with Abby, who lives in a very nice apartment. Two floors! Artwork!

There I discovered that the left of my pink shoes had been devouring my heel, which was now caked with blood. My shoe was full of blood, also. It looked much more frightening than it really was. We stopped at a pharmacy to buy Band-Aids, but we didn't know the word for "Band-Aids", so it was an adventure...