11.11.07

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reading week moscow

this past week has been reading week,, which means no classes to teach. i took the week to go back to moscow.
i miss moscow when i am not there and i wish the bloody air tickets were not so ridiculously expensive so i could go back more often. the cheapest direct flight i could find was 300 pounds, so i ended up buying one for 45pounds return on easy jet to tallinn. this at least meant that i got to stop in and see oliver before heading on to russia.
zbig picked me up at leningradskaia and we headed to his gorgeous flat at novokuznetskaia. i cant believe what an amazing place he found. i was extremely tired from several nights of little sleep and my first night in moscow i slept like a zombie. but i dont think it was only tiredness. I had forgot how wonderful it is to sleep in moscow flats in the winter: they are dry and warm and cosy. unlike english ones, which inevitably seem damp and cold, even if the temperature outside isnt that cold, and even if you have on the heat, they are never comfortable. so curled up in zbig's bed, in the nice dry warmth of a moscow winter, i just didnt want to get up! and then my last day i really did not want to get on that train to head back west...to my dingy london flat and my various underpaid jobs....