Excerpt from instant messenger conversation with old college friend:
11:36pm Petits Choux
how's the food?
11:37pm English Teacher X
in Moscow? or in Russia?
11:38pm Petits Choux
where you are, in general.
11:38pm English Teacher X
pretty awful, although there's good local fresh produce
restaurants are divided between bad pizza places and sushi restaurants that aren't too bad
not too much fast food yet, surprisingly
http://www.ilpatio.ru/
this is a popular place -- sort of a Russian version of the Olive Garden
11:40pm Petits Choux
your hangout?
11:40pm English Teacher X
The same company runs a chain sushi place, the Russian TGIFridays, and a Starbucks knock off.
Cheerful, eh?
11:40pm Petits Choux
do you drink lots of tea?
11:41pm English Teacher X
sadly, yeah, it's got some of the cheaper beer prices in town
i do, actually, now
but mostly green
and camomille in the evening to sooth my shattered soul
11:42pm Petits Choux
you need a little sugar in your bowl...
11:42pm English Teacher X
i need a lot of things, baby
mainly, some inspiration
11:43pm Petits Choux
are you interested in marriage, kids etc?
11:43pm English Teacher X
why I was making out with two 20 year old girls in a sauna the other morning, and I was hardly even aroused by it. . .
well to have marriage and kids, first you need somebody you want to marry
i've pretty much decided Russians are out of the question for that
11:44pm Petits Choux
definitely sounds like burnout...
11:45pm English Teacher X
of course, it wasn't like I was made unhappy by it, it just wasn't any more fun then watching THE SHIELD
and then of course the age thing is getting to be a problem, I get older and older and the 20 year olds stay the same.
11:46pm Petits Choux
you're approaching dirty old mandom..
11:46pm English Teacher X
i think I've only gone out with two girls more than 30 in my entire life. . .
11:47pm Petits Choux
when you were in high school?
11:48pm English Teacher X
my life is so immature I have nothing in common with older women
student life, now that I can dig.
11:49pm Petits Choux
well, I guess the green tea will keep you young so what the hell..
11:50pm English Teacher X
kind of stopped drinking vodka and absinthe, too
after an event in which I tried to choke one of my colleagues into unconsciousness. . .
a good start, right?
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