Upstate NY

I met up with Karen (a grade below me in hs) today, first time I've ever taken the orange line. We tried to watch Morning Glory, and then we tried to watch Tuxedo, and then we went to Lowes and looked at the plants :)

but now im thinking about this: what to pack?

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Jet UP

Sasha's was great. The sunburn and little cuts on my feet and giant mosquito bites where absolutely worth it.
Swimming in a lake dug out during the Great Depression, playing volleyball and various other games. It was like a mini music festival, with only one camp fire and only two or three guitars. But from there one goes to the next one. Just bought my ticket JetЛАГ. The message after I bought it was amusing:

Дорогой гость,
позвольте выразить благодарность за Ваше решение посетить фестиваль JetЛАГ 2011, а также восхищение Вашим утонченным вкусом в музыке, исскустве и отдыхе.
Мы счастливы видеть Вас на нашем фестивале!!!
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Dearest festival guest,
We appreciate your decision to attend JetLAG 2011. Congratulations on your sophisticated taste in music, performing arts and good times outdoors.
We shall be proud to host you at JetLAG!!!

(and today was Osya's last day of school. He had a party and I grilled so much food for those runty middleschoolers. and I watched A Clockwork Orange yesterday, yet another Kubrick film)

Waiting for NY

Eloosha came over and we went off to play tennis, so my legs ached the next day (and papa and I played yesterday too). There was also a giant icecream social on the town green...between the two of us we ate three scoops of blackberry frozen yogurt, one scoop of cherry garcia, and one scoop of cookie dough. yum.

My parents and I watched 2001: ASpace Odyssey, because Sabina gave papa a set of Kubrick dvd's for his birthday, and now we are almost done with Barry Lyndon. So lots of slow film lately. 

Right now I am waiting for Eloosha and his parents (and Kostya) to come by and pick me up at drive us to NY to Sasha's [21st, oo-la-la] birthday party. I only found out a couple days ago....so I'm bringing a mango as a present, I had nothing else. And I like mangos, and I assume everyone else likes mangos too, and thus it is a good present.
I was going to take the rail, but there were over 20 bruins fans waiting to get on as well (because they won? and there's a parade? thats what Eloosha said) and so the trains delayed.

dream-I don't remember most of it, but I do remember that Cat dyed the top of her hair black, and then bleached the very top. It looked bad. And her hair is already black, so it was more like the top part was slightly blue black and of a bad texture

a few outings

I name my stop
-5$. Wait...2$?
-2.50
-I haven't done this in a year.
-Well, then welcome back.
-heh, I guess. Actually, I like this route, one and a half hours and you're done for the day. It's not so bad.
-As long as there isn't any throw up
-exactly.

Arsenal mall with Yulka, and we painted our nails all different colors at forever 21. there was even scented nail-polish, but it chipped pretty quickly. and we got each other nearly identical birthday gifts. and then we went to Waltham to watch Midnight in Paris.

Harvard sq with Kathleen. We mostly avoided the heat by going from store to store (filled out two job apps...). Entered two bookstores that were closing-the Curious George one at the corner, and the Global Bookstore across from the Garage.

The next day I went to Portor and found another bookstore that had closed, and met up with Valya at Harvard (starbucks). We walked to MIT to meet up with Kostya and his McGill people (contact, burrito, ect.) Val left and then we went back to Belmont, and met up with Yulka (starbucks again).
We walked from Kostya's house back to Yulka's place, but instead of telling Sisi and Nikita (the McGill people) where to turn we just followed them around. Somehow they got to Yulka's house, but then they kept walking and ended up almost going all the way back to Kostya's before realizing something was up. it was amusing. At Yulkas (ddr...Chinese checkers...) and then they left and I slept over.

We fell asleep around four and got up at 11 and made waffles from scratch for brunch. Watched 10 Things I Hate About You and painted our nails and were girly, but then I went home and in the evening my parents and I went to see The Tree of Life. The theater was packed. I was the youngest person there, and we all had to sit alone because there was no good place for three people to sit next to each other, or even two. Other than the cgi it was a great film...though it made me very tense, and made me want to curl up into a ball before anything really upsetting had even been shown onscreen-it made me tense.

Other than that...I cut Папа's and Yosef's hair, and I'm at that point in A Clockwork Orange when you go "wait...so he's not a 30 year old man in post soviet russia who for some reason knows a weird version of english pretty well...he's a schoolboy who is surrounded by people who speak english fluently, and his parents are useless and...and...what?!"

Мама's Birthday

Visited Max from hs (slushies, The Royal Tenenbaums, went to this years graduation by accident (while getting pizza) and saw some lovely faces (I always forget that I do actually like some of the people that I went to hs with...just my general apathy towards most of them, and the fact that it wasn't one solid group, tends to overshadow that fact), pool at another person's house, and then sleeping at a third...but I didn't tell my parents that I wasn't coming home, so they, of course, got worried and found me and picked me up.)
Parent's friends birthday part, and then the next day finished painting my parents room, and helped my dad move the mattresses and bed up three flights of stairs. Yesterday we went to walk at Halibut Point and Rockport.
And today is my mom's birthday! But we spent a large chunk of the day cleaning the mess created by the renovation, and bought a new mixer.
and I had a dream where everyone was trying to convince me to be a linguistics major.

Папа Birthday :)

It's my dad's birthday today!














I made lasagna to celebrate (not included in photo: olive oil. and I probably should have used garlic, the rest is pretty flex).

loosely based on these instructions, but with twice the ricotta, more eggs, and serves more than 6.

peal the eggplant with potato peeler, cut into circles, add salt, olive oil, pepper, into the oven at 400 for 15 min. Mix up the ricotta, four eggs and mozzarella, salt (and more spices, if you like...i.e. more pepper). Put down layer of sauce (if you have the time you can make your own), and then lasagna pasta (mine didn't need to be boiled) and then layer it all up. put into oven at 350 for half an hour with tinfoil, and another 15 without.

to be honest, I've never made lasagna by myself before, so I'm no expert, but it tasted good and didn't fall apart :)

End of the World

I was going to make mushroom soup, but the mushrooms went bad. So I just ended up with boiled potatoes. Black bear sightings in my town, a tornado in Springfield...and me not enjoying the job-searching process. at all. bleh. My primary motivation for getting my butt to Harvard Sq. yesterday (to apply and go through a preliminary interview) was that I was meeting up with Kostya. Otherwise I might not have gone.
Yosef and I made challah, my grandmother says that my aunt has a better recipe, which I believe, since she made challah for sabbath for years (now their neighbors make them challah...maybe I'll get that recipe) But our mixer broke, it started smoking, so we need a new one.
Shimon got a bike (present from our parents and Ilya, our uncle.) Maybe we can start raising the back wheels soon, him and his primary colors :)
Opened a (late) tennis season with my dad a couple days ago, and then we went for a three hour walk in the woods with all of the family and some family friends (in the humidity, in the heat...) And then we went to a sushi place (nom nom nom.)
The day before that we went around the Weston Reservoir. So much poison ivy. I have some, naturally-I've gotten it every year since I was two.