... and of course, top tips on procrastinating as job hunting can be a total bore. City procrastination has turned into countryside procrastination- I have always wanted to try cow tipping!

It has been a while since I posted anything, but now I am back in the UK and for the time being this blog is becoming a 'rural diary'! Unemployed in the country... I promise you excitement, or not. But some of it might be amusing.

This is for all those people who have dealt with 'face control'!!!
Although I have never heard of anyone being so desperate they offer to have sex with a bouncer to get into a club... but I'll let you know what happens next time I try to go to Pacha (pronounced 'pa-cha' in Moscow!)

Ireland's most wanted driver... Mr Prawo Jazdy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171.stm

I have just read a great article about the observations of a French checkout girl, which have been turned into a best selling book, and although my checkout knowledge is a lot more limited than hers, I do totally agree. People treat checkout workers with absolutely no respect and it can be horrible! Here are the links to the Times article and her original blog (for those of you who speak French)


www.women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article5853437.ece

www.caissierenofutur.over-blog.com

Avant-garde art

A link to a good article on avant-garde Russian art.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/600/42/374882

A refreshing view on life...

I was teaching a class yeterday and opposite me there was a native speaker teaching a young boy, who was probably about 7 or 8. Most of the lesson was conducted in Russian, with the occasional 'khello and gooodbye' but about 15 minutes in the boy turned to his teacher and asked in Russian "Do you think in English?", and his teacher replied (in Russian too) "Yes, always, and sometimes in Russian". The little boys face was priceless! You could see him trying to understand how a person could think in a language where he only knew a few words... and it reminded me of the first time I heard French people talking to each other. I remember turning to my Mum and asking how they understood each other?! Such a refreshing view on life.

A video from the Last Shadow Puppets, filmed in Russia. Some of the comments about this video are that it shows a stereotyped image of Russia, which it does, but I quite like the video, thoughts?

I should also mention, my 's' key is being very temperamental at the moment, so apologies if there are typos. "It not my fault, orry. I can pell and type honet!!!"

A good way to begin procrastinating is starting a blog! I am currently applying to job after job (and receiving rejection after rejection) and a blog is a welcome form of distraction, and it feels like you are doing something constructive, which is always my number one rule for procrastinating: it has to appear to be productive (whether it is is another matter completely)!! I'll let you know how this particular form of procrastination goes... so far I'm having fun and feeling as though I am contributing something useful to society (self-delusion is a wonderful thing).