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While making a dress... 2008-07-23 12:59:00 I have been overcomplicating my life for the last few weeks, turning questions into problems, and problems into disasters. Andri asks me: "Do you want me to come over to Moscow and spend some days with you?" I hear: "Do you want to marry me and give up your personal freedom for the rest of your life?" I am not sure that even the most qualified audiologist would be able to resolve that problem. So Read more:making
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The truth behind the pick-up lines 2008-07-13 11:47:00 "You are not of this earth", - said a grey-suited man. Rudolf, - that was his name - believed in horoscopes, was a big fan of antique books and immediately wanted my number. "Not of this earth..." He was more right than he thought as he tried to charm me with that pick-up line. In a silky grey dress, with curls full of fire and a tea-rose in my hand, enlightened by the upcoming "date" with my bel Read more:behind
Rewriting the ending 2008-07-04 07:00:00 Last night while reading "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann in my bed, I suddenly found myself dreaming about the upcoming premier of "The Flames of Paris" and my favorite conductor. Nothing special: reading and daydreaming are my two biggest hobbies. The surprising part, though, was that I could finally think of other people, other than Andri. Comforted by that deep introspection, I looked at
No Comment 2008-06-25 00:34:00 "What paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at the end, was a malady, or a madness, or both. I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on. I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in secret chamber one has some day Read more:Comment
The other side of the fairy tale 2008-06-24 13:35:00 I like surprises. I really do. That is why, when I questioned our relationship, I sometimes also attributed my doubt to the fact that Andri didn't surprise me enough when we were together, - I mean surprise to the point of a shock and temporary inability to speak. Bear with me. It was my first relationship: little princess expected a breathtaking fairy
tale! The fairy tale is now over, but it see
What do I want? 2008-06-15 18:30:00 My past life seems to be a chain of impression management efforts. It started with reading the Economist in public transport, - as opposed to most women reading low quality celebrity gossip and outdated fashion magazines. Why did I do that? Not because I thought that the Economist was the most enlightening reading (to the contrary), but because of the unconscious desire to show my intellectual su
Wings on the sarcophagus 2008-06-13 04:41:00 I was standing at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, mesmerized by the colorful writings on the sarcophagus. I was following the lines and the curves as if trying to inhale the power behind them. Egyptian myths emerging from the depth of my memory intertwined with images from action movies. I skipped lectures: microeconomics is irrelevant.The sarcophagus: life and death. What was someone's life is n Read more:Wings
Magic is in the air... 2008-06-11 11:44:00 Most of my friends (and even one conductor) know about my butterfly obsession. I find those little insects to be the essential representation of nature's delicate beauty. But when it comes to fashion items, I don't like butterflies printed on fabric. Those fairy tale creatures have to be in the air. A cloud of playful butterflies! They spring of the dress on tiny "golden" wires that end with lit Read more:Magic
Sublimation of love 2008-06-09 14:59:00 I think it speaks for itself: unhealthy, out of balance, messy. That what sublimation of love feels like. A statement of my current condition.
Tropical poison 2008-06-07 06:43:00 Women are like flowers. Sophisticated, fragile and... dangerous. Black makes delicious yellow stand out and blossom. Strict black base contrasts with the light flowing multi-layered "flower petals". Feminine attractiveness with a twist of tropical danger.Natural shape inspiration: Picture Sources: Leviathor (Biking in Utah), Amethist, victoria0805 Read more:Tropical
Spring farewell 2008-06-03 11:59:00 This is what I do when I am supposed to prepare for a microeconomics exam:Spring
blue lace coatI like contrasting white and black, red and blue. White and blue must have been Greece-inspired, - zig-zags reminding of waves in the sea. Red is an absolutely feminine color, - I like to hide it away in the lining as a teaser. I draw attention to the waist and slightly oversize the hips with multiple l
Fine is not fine 2008-06-03 07:21:00 No one likes to read about someone else's depression. It's is simply boring. Unless, perhaps, it's a celebrity that everyone envies. Than it becomes a form of 'aggression sublimation' for the envious. I am fine. It's only that I have lost the taste of the sun on my skin and the wind in my hair. The entire world shrinks down to my boiling mind, filled with insoluble problems. As I sit trapped in
Between the lines 2008-06-01 04:57:00 To write a post it takes me 10 started and never finished 'text edit' documents, multiple colorful post-it reminders, messy notes in my diary, hours of searching for illustrations that say exactly what I want them to. And honestly: I absolutely love the process! This is what it took to write one of the older brief posts (and those were only tentative formulations - none of which got included in th
The Importance of Being Earnest 2008-05-26 09:54:00 I always had a problem saying a straight face-to-face 'no' when people asked me to do a favor. When I did say 'no', I always felt guilty for not helping someone, not satisfying their wishes. I guess, I was worried that they will stop liking me if I don't please them. Taken to an extreme, this 'do not disappoint' tendency extended even to people that I barely knew. For example, if a man started tal Read more:Earnest
Healthy egoism 2008-05-25 02:51:00 It is so wonderful to be able to say 'I love you'. It is so sweet to wake up next to him and make love almost without opening your eyes to see the sunlight... It is so sweet to be thinking of him throughout the day and wait for the hour we see each other. But when the feeling dies, it is so difficult to admit and say the necessary 'I no longer love you'. Guilt starts to breed like mould on the gar
Airing (the deleted post) 2008-05-18 16:23:00 (The only paragraph that I left untouched from the first edition:) I kept on having second thoughts about letting a 'him' read this. A very specific 'him'. A guy that uses way too much perfume, but with such ignorant innocence that it is terribly charming. And strangely enough, it doesn't harm his masculinity, - just adds a sort of XIXth century dust to it. The guy that learned suspiciously litt Read more:Airing
Movie star dress 2008-05-18 01:39:00 Somewhere between our yoga class, - which makes me feel more muscles in my body than I thought I ever had, - and "A Legend of Love" at the Bolshoi, Kate and I went to the "Petrovsky Passage". They are currently hosting an exhibition of 1930s-1940s dress
es from the collection of Alexandre Vassiliev, - the most famous fashion historian in Russia. A very charming fancy man with an ironic smile and me
Mindbook Launch Party! 2008-05-10 12:33:00 Even I think that my posts are loooooooooooooooong. But there are very good reasons for me being that 'over-productive'. When I start a post, I surely have a 'million plus two' things on my mind. Then I choose. One. I believe that it deserves a 5-sentence paragraph, half an hour of time at most. Well, that theory never found support so far. One little issue turns into another billion, because ever Read more:Launch
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Approximating proximity 2008-05-08 10:26:00 I don't remember where I read or heard it, but this is the question: does it ever bother you how many people will come to your funeral if it happens to be tomorrow? I don't like that one... Because sometimes, when people forget to call and don't reply to messages, I wonder: does anyone care? Anyone at all? Do I mean anything for anyone? The way that some people matter to me? Or am I just a piece o
Quote of the day 2008-05-04 04:49:00 chasing her dreams...Originally uploaded by sam_samantha Andri to me: "You are much more interesting as a woman than as a person. And it's not just sex!" Read more:Quote
There is a thing called pride, girl 2008-05-01 06:28:00 What do people think when they sit at the conservatory? The seriousness of their faces is frightening at times. As if they are listening to a speech by a Nobel Prize laureate in physics. All eyes on the stage. Fixed. Square emotionless faces.I come to the conservatory way too often to spend time mesmerizing the stage. It is actually distracting to look at performers and their bizarre dances with
Procrastinating life 2008-04-28 07:13:00 I derive a slightly masochistic pleasure from admitting my psycho-perversions. Here is one. I have a mid-term, an exam and one more exam for three days in a row, starting today. I haven't studied for the mid-term and the last exam (and that is not the perverted part yet). I know that I sound absolutely irresponsible. Judge me if you wish to, but that is not the point of the story. I was going a
His hands 2008-04-26 16:27:00 October 2006. I am on a plane. Copenhagen-Moscow. I haven't been home with my family since Christmas, but that is not why I am going. I want to see him. No, I need to see him. I need to see his hands. Get mesmerized by their tenderness. In the holy darkness of the theater. Earlier. September 2006. I knew that the Bolshoi Theater would be giving a guest performance in Copenhagen. Nice. Yet I didn
Speaking different languages 2008-04-26 04:04:00 - So, you went with Kate... What does she do those days? - my dad, trying to make a conversation as he picks me up from the Bolshoi Theater. - Does she study? Work? - No. Not at the moment. She is going to start again at the university in September. Why do you ask? - No, but then what does she do? She can't be doing nothing, right?"She is in love!" - I want to scream with joy, but I only Read more:Speaking
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Silent tears of a stupid heart 2008-08-07 11:09:00 Friday I was restless. Typical for a person who spends way too much time at home alone for absolutely no good reason. I was questioning whether Andrea and Kate were right. Is it really possible to love someone special and have sex with other people while away from the special one? They confessed that it felt quite natural under certain circumstances. I told them, I understood. But... I didn't. I Read more:Silent
Friends and the City 2008-08-14 13:56:00 I recently heard a joke: "The criterion of a true friendship: When you invite him/her over, you don't tidy up your apartment". I am a neat freak, so friend or foe would rarely see my apartment messy. Yesterday I went half way across the city to a flower market to get small egg-yolk yellow roses, - so I could complete the atmosphere of feminine romance in my room. They say, there is a piece of jo Read more:Friends
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