Digital Wanderer

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Student Life - Holidays

 2008-12-27

We're just taking it easy here in all sorts of ways. On Wednesday, I went to Twingo pica with rk13, Katerina, Yura and Valerych, the stray terminator robot. I liked the pizza there, I ate a creation called Mexico – with a mountain of little onions. The price, admittedly, isn't exactly humane – 6 LS ($12), and by "large pizza" they mean something closer to a medium. But it's worth the money. However, they kicked us out of Twingo because they only stay open until 9. We headed over to Vesma (more on that below), but they kicked us out of there at 10. We had to trudge over to rk13's place, where his dad treated us to some roe deer sausage, and rk13 stubbornly refused to believe me about various facts (maybe out of beer-fueled obstinacy, or maybe he was just IRL trolling). For instance, about how New Year's Eve in Russia only started being celebrated on December 31st starting with the era of Peter the Great, and that the MacOS operating system kernel called Darwin – is FreeBSD, and absolutely not Linux. And while I'm not entirely right about Darwin – being FreeBSD, I'm practically 100% correct about New Year's.

And today, my colleagues Prince Mosala and Ezhi and I went for a special lunch at Dima's, who's really into Indian spiritual practices. Because of this, I call him either a yogi or a cultist, but I'm hoping I'll make it out alive because these very practices frown upon violence. Anyway, this time around Dima only acted as an assistant to a chef named Katya in preparing traditional Indian dishes. (I hope I got the name right, I always have this phobia that I'll miss the mark). Obviously, India is huge, the traditions there are diverse, but the food we tried wasn't spicy, but quite the opposite, rather mild. I asked what the dishes were made of, but I was too shy to record the answer on video, and I still haven't gotten around to buying a smartphone.

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