my ears arn't hearing properly

lots of dubstep, and the crowd was the biggest one I've seen here. booty banger xii.

what else...went to the burrito stand and the waterfall earlier today, after my photo class (three hours long)

but yeah, the music was loud enough that i could feel the bass and my ears can't hear properly right now.

Back at Bard

So first there was the hurricane, and then it turned out that there was no wifi in the dorm and I hadn't brought an ethernet cord, and so a week has passed by.
The lighting in our new room is really shitty, so we got a lamp and light-bulbs, and the tile floors get dirty easily, so we got a swifter and a carpet. good bye money. don't get me started on textbooks, especially ones that say they came out in 2012.

Actually, the hurricane wasn't too terrible here. One of the buildings got a bit damaged, but the campus if fine otherwise. Some of the surrounding towns, on the other hand, are passing out water and other basic supplies. And Adrienne's town in Vermont looks in pretty terrible shape by the photos-like the bridge that her parents usually use to get to work was over run by water and broken at one side.

It's Yosef's birthday today. I wish I could at least give him a hug, but I did get him a present. <3

anyway, off to the info-session for camps drivers of various types. I didn't get a library sorting job because my schedule didn't work.

27th I leave again.

I feel like I'm freaking out more about college this year than i did last year. which makes about as much sense as a balding monkey.

packing

camp is soon. my room looks ridiculous because I was looking for stuff for peoples costumes. I was helping shimon pack earlier...and cutting onions. 5 to be exact. 

6 pounds of ground beef will be arriving shortly, with my mom.

add 12 decrusted pieces of bread soaked in 6 eggs, salt and mix: that makes a ton of katleti (kinda like salisbury steak).

and of course I get the honor of standing over the pan frying everything.

I should be more excited, hopefully I'll be less meh once I get to the camp grounds.

I'll be back in 9 days. 

edit: one e-mail from Lenya about the costumes and im already more excited. still have to actually read the script, though. 
 we (the older teens/youthful adults) chose to do the snark as a play (Loise Carol poem)
http://www.lib.ru/CARROLL/snarkeng.txt english
http://www.nunu.ru/carroll4.zip russian
I'm playing the beaver.

I'm such a cool sister

When I was little, I wanted an older sister so that I could eves drop on her phone conversations (and you know...live her drama vicariously. this was when I was about five)

My parents never adopted a girl older than me, so I have always been stuck being the older sister (also oldest out of my cousins, but they live so far away it wouldn't make a difference)

But my brothers are so much younger than me that it's easy to be awesome to them. Too big an age difference to fight, but I'm willing to hang out.

In the morning we made candles (layer the wax into an eggshell and then, once it cools, peal it away. the result is an egg-shaped layered candle. of course you can use other forms as well...wide glass candle holders work well. the wax does come out, since it shrinks once it cools)

Then we went to Walden pond (because I can drive them there-oh the glory! Yosef was asking me if it's hard to learn and all) and then we went to Hannaford to get ice-cream and a couple other things Usually we only have vanilla...not that Mama is against buying other flavors, she just doesn't really tend to eat them. Almond Mocha and Peppermint Stick.What a license gives you.

and now we are cooking (more vareniki from the previous post)

Otherwise I've continued socializing. Surprise birthday party Saturday, meeting up with a family friend Sunday (though I was in a...mood that fit the rainy weather that day) and hopefully meeting up with a hs friend today.

Вишнёвые Вареники or Sour Cherry Dumplings

Shimon destemed them and I pitted them.

Dough: 
3 cups flour
3/4 cup very cold water
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt

Filling:
sour cherry*- 700 grams (I think about two cups?)
1 cup sugar
 




pit the cherries, cover them with sugar and let stand overnight. Strain the resulting syrup.

Keep the syrup to dip the dumplings in....it's also just good for anything that requires syrup, like flavoring sparkling water to create soda.

 Mix the flour and salt together. Then, stir in the cold water until the dough no longer sticks to your hands. For me, this required a bit of kneading and a tiny bit more flour.
Let the dough sit for half an hour, covered with a damp towel.

Roll out the dough. It has to be pretty thin-about 3mm or a tenth of an inch.Use a glass to make dough circles.




 Put the filling into the center of each circle. Don't put so much filling that you can't close the dumpling.











Pinch the edges together, you can use a fork for this.
It talks about some sort of braid decoration for the edges in the recipe I was using, but I have no idea what it is. For those who do know what a braid is though: it just says you need to make the edges thinner if you intend to do that.

You can freeze them for storage. To cook, put them in boiling water and wait for them to float up. Make sure they don't get stuck to the bottom of the pot.

 Eat with sour-cream or with the syrup made earlier. Or both.

* This is the first time I've bumped into fresh sour cherries in the US, Mama got them at an Italian market. I suppose normal cherries would work, though it would definitely taste different. (so yes, it's my first time, that's why they turned out a bit lumpy)

the instructions I used:
http://www.gotovim.ru/recepts/sbs/varenvishn.shtml

Head full of Teeth

Usually I don't talk about doctor appointments, but this one was scarier than most.

My dentist had noticed that two of my wisdom teeth are sideways, but the normal little x-ray doesn't give a clear view, so I had to get my mouth scanned to see what my teeth are up to. This is fine, you just have to keep still, and I did this two years back when I was getting my implant. 

And this is what they are up to:

upper right-it's fine. As in, it needs to get yancked out, but it will be fine

upper left-probably okay as well, close to the scines though, so that might be unpleasent if it rips.

lower left-not yet fully formed, but its going into my molar too. additionally it is close to a nerve.

lower left-basically fully formed, very much going into my molar, and also very close to my nerve. its growing from behind and has three prongs surrounding the nerve.

losing that nerve means losing feeling in my teeth (all the way down the row), in my chin and in my lips. not doing the sergery means losing my molar. I think this applies for both the lower teeth.

The doctor said he needs to talk to another doctor (the one who, according to my dad, seems to be the smartest one) so I guess I gave them a full set of problems to mull over (pun intended.)

 they will call us on wed. or thursday.....

on a happier note, Yulka slept over a couple nights ago! we ate an entire piece of Gorgonzola, and made lemonade and did other things that aren't really interesting from the outside, but were fun :)

I also watched The Philosopher Kings.

debt (I'm not  in the graduate program yet, but): http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/01/news/economy/debt_ceiling_students/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2