Khochu v Leningrad!

Well, the day has finally come. Tomorrow we depart (me, A.K., and the Romanian Lacanian) for St. Petersburg, which means this blog turns in to a kind of travelogue, with the horrifying attendent possibility that somebody might actually read it. Well, I'm sure it'll pass.
Here is where we are going:


The Herzen Pedagogical University, in central St Petersburg, just off the Nevsky Prospekt.

The misguided suggestion, levelled by a few, that this was going to be some kind of holiday has been firmly put to bed by the fact that the Romanian Lacanian emailed me earlier today to find out which books I will be taking with me. Freud, Lacan and Foucault are on the agenda (so far), as well - those of you who enjoy chiding me for not reading enough literature will be pleased to hear - as 'Crime & Punishment'. I'm not expecting a moment's rest.

Next time... photographs (hopefully).


All packed?
"one 45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Rooshan phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings -- shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff...."