August 2010

Mind currently in: Mongolia

August 31, 2010

Mongolia borders other thoughts in my mind the same way it borers Russia in real life: quietly, peripherally, passively. Russia-Mongolia border. Mr. B always makes fun of me for being Mongoloid because sometime, vaguely, years ago, I mentioned to him that it’s possible that my dad’s side of the family, like many Russians, have Mongolian or Tatar ancestry after I saw a picture of my aunt when she was younger looking more Asian than European.  According to Armchair Anthropologist Boykis, this is ...

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World of pain

August 29, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, my parents and Mr. B’s mom came to celebrate my mom’s birthday by biking 30 miles on the Mt. Vernon Trail, because nothing says “it’s a day of celebration” to my mom and mother-in-law like not being able to walk for a week. It’s like jointly turning 25 really sent them over the edge. The first part went really well. Everyone was pumped and cycling under cloudless blue skies through charming downtown Alexandria, by the ...

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Friday Links

August 27, 2010

Yesterday Mr. B and I went to see the Nationals play the Cardinals at Nationals Park in D.C. and it was an amazing night.  The weather was PERFECT, the full moon was out, watching the game, and the Nationals, known for being really awful, actually won.  I played softball for 10 years so baseball is one of the only sports I understand and can watch for more than an hour. Baseball is one of those intrinsically American things you don’t ...

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I’m Trying to Stop Reading Blogs that Suck

August 25, 2010

source: some chick named Jan Vermeer I’m in the process of unsubscribing from a bunch of blogs that I used to read because when I subscribed to them I thought it was cool to read those blogs.   I was a beginning blogger, and they appealed to me and I became wistful and awestruck at how many people were in their comment sections, how wonderful every paragraph they wrote was, how cute their stock photos were, and how they were whisked away ...

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Book Review: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

August 23, 2010

The phrase, The Marines are at war, America is at the mall doesn’t have a more relevant application than as the summary of Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story. I wrote before about how I thought he jumped the shark and that if I had to read one more story about the type of Russian Jewish guy my parents tried to set me up with-schmucky, directionless, and still at a mental age of eight, I would break up with ...

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