Mix and Match

Some shadowblocks for your amusement. These can be found in Washington DC, but I would like to wager that I am the only one who knows exactly where. And its facinating to me that I could get my body from this dorm room over to Washington DC and stand right infront of this structure. It would be so precise.

You may or may not know that I went to Ottawa 2 weeks ago with my parents. It was exceedingly exciting to see people I haven't seen for years.









They are my brothers Alex, Max and Ed. And it is always just as nice to see them. Alex and I were inseperable again.





Haha.







I am starting to appreciate animals being around a lot more. (Thank you.) And it makes me happy to see them. Although those dogs look sad up there, this is just a cool ol' cat.





And these are the houses of Parliament in Canada. I like imagining them squatting down through the cold winter and looking so damp and grim.







Another sculpture in DC.





And this is the new Biology Building in Ann Arbor and my goal is to secure a lab assistant job here.





Stay tuned for The Books and some Breakdancing photos.

Oh God, Oh God

Over break my dad and I flew to Washington DC for 24 hours exactly so that I could take another step toward US citizenship. It was exciting to make an escape like that, and I was really looking forward to something different and exciting at the end of the week. I really loved going there. It is a good city and whoever does live in DC, has something very special there. I have made quite a quantity of friends here in Ann Arbor that actually live in DC, like Gabby and Mariel



but for some reason, I didn't see any of them.
So instead I went to the Smithsonian and Capitol Hill and looked at the things I haven't seen before. Like the Library of Congress,


The Supreme Court



The Capitol



and the National Archives, where the Declaration of Independence and the Magna Carta were displayed.
Then, I was lucky to meet up with my friend Alex Wiltchko, who actually lives in Texas but was in DC at the same time as I was. Funny.


We went to some museums and saw some nice things.





This is a welcome image from my childhood:



The trip was fun and very welcome, but sure enough, we scrambled out of bed at 6 am and flew home to Cincinnati, and then I drove up to Ann Arbor and many things had somehow changed in just one week.



Oh, and here is a shot from around the corner of my dorm.



I have a good amount of photos to show you recently, so look out for those. Including the Books concert I saw on campus the other night.

Kostya