I am a grammar rockstar! While brushing my teeth! So, I was thinking (the way I normally do) as I was brushing my teeth this morning and then I started wondering why the obscene Russian phrase "idti na khui" (loosely and humorously translated as "go to the dick") uses the preposition na. I was puzzling over this and thinking about the various situations that call for the use of na rather than v. Directions... Some buildings... Islands... Peninsulas. What is a penis? Oh yes, a peninsula. Grammar at work! I win forever!

Then I got to feel even better when I called Rob and found out that he broke his hand. Wait, that sounds really mean. I was happy to talk to Rob, and I was sad that he broke his hand, but I was amused that he was enough of a dumbass to break it punching a wall. Especially over pool hall formal. I'd go on and make fun of him some more, but he probably "reads" this and (I hope) feels like enough of an idiot already.

School only mildly sucked today. So it's not really worth talking about. Although Meg chastised us collectively for speaking too much English. Whatever. It's hard to speak Russian all the time. I don't hang out with any of the other program kids really, so I'm speaking Russian most of the rest of the day. School is the only opportunity to speak English, and the feeling is pretty much that you should be able to make the most of it. I actually made my first joke in Russian today when I was telling Lydia Borisovna about what Margaret said. She asked why the students were speaking so much English, and I said that it was too hard to complain in Russian. Which isn't really a joke, and isn't really that funny, but she laughed, which is the first time that humor has been communicated.

But backing up a little, I had email today! I can't even begin to explain how lame it makes me feel to get excited about getting email, but seriously. It's sad that I hear from Alex more regularly than from my parents. But yeah. Emails from lots of people! Mostly about grad school and telling me not to be such an idiot about certain aspects of my life, but it was exciting nonetheless.

Today was also an awesome day because... Anybody? Anybody? No, Claire didn't get hit by a bus. FIRST SNOW!!! That gets caps and lots of exclamation marks because it's really exciting. We don't get the snow much in the Portland, so any snow is cool, but this was the first of the year. Yay snow!