This blog is about my life in Moscow. I do what most Anglophones living in Moscow do: I teach English at various businesses around the city, zooming around in the often garlicky subway.
The blog will be partly retrospective in nature, because I have already been here for awhile, and also because I am still unsure how long I will stay here.
I have enountered many problems here, from sexually frustrated secretaries, to rapacious landlords, to repugnant ex-left-fascist-cum-businessbitch school directors to the general din and haze of Russia's (arguably) first city.
I have recently come to the conclusion that many of my problems are not due to The Russians writ large, but instead to my monkey, who lives way back in Ohio and who has been trying for almost two years now to force my return home by way of manipulating the minds and bodies of Russians and sundry middle-aged foreigners of all sexes, causing them to rip me off, insult me, come on to me, throw me out of my apartment, stagger into my room at three am asking for their left sock, and generally being a pain in the ass.
The belief that my monkey, of whom I will in nearest future post an action photo, is at the root of my problems, and not The Russians or Russia or some miasma seeping from the Russian soil, is comforting for two unrelated reasons:
1 It is easier on the mind to blame one monkey than the people of the place you yourself have chosen to live
2 It means my monkey still loves me and wants me to come home after so many years of absence
2bis There is such a thing as unconditional love
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Ну вот опять все на английском(, но все же я кое что поняла, ты не знаешь когда покинешь Россию))
your blog's in cyrillic! you're lucky i know how to use blogspot and put in comments. i can read the part that matters though, and let me just say that i look forward to every new post. is there any way i can get email updates when you make a post?
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