Sticking snow!- the sidewalks and rooftops and trimmed in white this morning! I'm drinking my morning coffee and after reading a quick roundup of the news on NYtimes, i find myself indulging in some thanksgiving food porn: that is, looking at recipes and photos of delicious Thanksgiving dishes. Thanksgiving is a hard holiday to miss; i remember during my year abroad that was one glum day until Bryan's late-night Thanksgiving get together. I guess I should probably be set after enjoying two Thanksgiving feasts last year- one Denver style, starting with the turkey trot and ending with our annual get-together with the Kinsellas, and a second one Kansas style- featuring my first fried turkey and getting to see relatives i hadn't seen in a good long while.
This year I'll join a group of fellow Fulbrighters for turkey day. I've promised to bring a pumpkin pie so I'll be baking away next Thursday.
Yesterday I met with Yuri to talk about contemporary Artist books in Petersburg. He introduced me to the book object works of Pushnitsky, and let me photograph and flip through a bunch of the books in his collection. I've gotten a lot done in this past week for my research and it's opening up more questions and ideas of topics to write about while I'm here.
Now I'm off to edit down these images I took yesterday so I can submit them, along with my final article, to the editor at the st. petersburg times. Oh! While editing the Times on Monday Politkovskaya's name popped up in the news again. They'll allow journalists to the trial of the suspected murderers- originally the journalists had been denied access because one of the suspects has some kind of military rank and the military court is a closed court. Read more here.