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Translating this, in lieu of saying which ones I'd want to see, because I want to see all of them. A lot of the missing words will have to wait until I have the dictionary. Or at least until I make a first pass of this and then the INTERNET WILL BE MY DICTIONARY. MUA HA HA HA HA. Oh god, I need sleep.

Достопримечательности города. Посмотрите на фотографии достопримечательностей Москвы и Санкт-Петербурга. Какие места вы бы хотели посмотреть?
Sights of the city. Look at the photos of the sights of Moscow and St Petersburg. What places would you like to look at?

Москва
Moscow
Это Красная площадь и Кремль. Это географический центр города.
This is Red Square (lit. area) and the Kremlin. This is the geographic center of the city.

Это Арбат. Этот исторический район города находится недалеко от центра.
This is Arbat. This historic district of the city [something something no brain or dictionary] of/to the center.

Это Третьяковская галерея. В ней можно увидеть шедевры русского искусства.
This is the [????] Gallery. Here one might see [++out of cheese error++] Russian [++please reboot Universe++]

Это Московский университет. Здесь учится более 24 000 студентов. Он находится на Воробьёвых горах.
This is the Moscow University. Here [adjective?] 24,000 students attend. It [yeah, I don't have the vocab for this readily in my head]

Санкт-Петербург
St Petersburg
Это Зимний дворец. Здесь раньше жил царь. Теперь это музей Эрмитаж.
This is the Winter Palace. Here [something, dammit that word looks familiar] went [bluh?]. [Something] is the museum of [something. hermitage?]

Это Петропавловская крепость. Здесь Пётр 1 начал строить своё «Окно в Европу»
This is the Petropavlovich [something] Here Peter I [something something] Window onto Europe? Window of Europe?

Это Спас на крови. Здесь в 1881 году был убит император Александр 2
This is the [something] Here in 1881 lived? the Emperor Alexander II.

Это Мариинский театр. Здесь раньше танцевал Михаил Барышников.
This is the Marine? Mariners? Theatre. Here [something] Mikhail Barishnykov danced.



Why, oh why is Elan (Order of the Stick, a webcomic) writing my LJ posts now? Pimp, pimp, pimp the kitty in distress! The relevant Etsy shop is here. I just blew all my disposable income on Dragon*Con or I'd go for it.

Oogh. By this time on a normal day I would have just finished Russian. Instead, I'm at work, holding down the fort in the back and just starting on Russian. With no exercises, no makeup (which I was only going to put on since I was theoretically going to be a shopgirl anyway so that doesn't matter) and 4 and a half hours sleep or so. And a couple of Tootsie rolls for breakfast. I want a nap, I want a real breakfast, and I want a day off, in that order. Sadly, none of those are actually likely to happen.

I still need addresses from two people for your autographs! One I need to send out tomorrow when I'm not rushing my ass off in the morning, and the other will wait until you're settled in the new place and I have that address!

Ugh. As you may have noticed, the SciFi Big Bang got posted last night. Except I still don't have posting access to the comm. Sigh. I did realize, though, that if that thing is going to be that long and that complicated to post, my two original BigBangs are going to be even longer, which. Christ. Still don't know what I'm going to do about that. I might just post it up on my website and link it from there, that might be easier. Or at least, easier on my flist. Right now, though, that's one ginormous workload off my shoulders, and it might even get a sequel next year because as it stands, it totally deserves a sequel. And it's not a bad piece in and of itself. But not yet, no sequels yet. First, editing three novels at once. And probably writing a bunch of short pieces. And maybe finishing up some Kink Bingos and Mundane Bingos. Which will ... god, I really hate realizing that I just met someone whose character I wrote porn about. (Which, for those of you who might be wondering, was the Blade Runner PolyBigBang. So, not much in the way of porn, but still.) And then again, is that much different from going to meet Jim Butcher after what I did to his characters?

... Yeah, let's shut up now and go back to work. Or, since there's not much day job work, writing and editing and things.