Either Write Something Worth Reading or Do Something Worth Writing. I Was A Teenage Despot. The Names Have Been Changed To Protect The Guilty. This is me in 2009, 18 years old, wearing a homemade dress that cost me 80 bucks for materials and drunk with power.

As with much of Russian culture, the wedding celebration is full of traditions. The traditional Russian wedding lasts for at least two days, but sometimes lasts as long as a week. The bride never wears her dress or shoes before the day of the wedding, to ensure her happiness. The eternal flame of the heroes of World War II and the Bronze Horseman statue and monument to Peter the Great dominating Senate Square.

Thursday, September 8, 2011. Although I said I would try to keep up with this website thingy, the length of time between each post seems to be getting larger and larger; partly because I lost the Internets, partly because I have to write 8,000 words for some papers by the 20th. But never fear, I have returned with a compilation of stories from the past few days. Only no one is hesitant. In fact, my environ.