Those dances are cool! And the third one looks well difficult!
I wish we had some cool English dances; but all I can think of is morris dancing, which always struck me as a bit gay, what with all the bells and skipping and hitting together of phallic objects.

Gurning is a competition where people (generally old people without any teeth) wear a horse collar and try to pull the funniest face they can. Brilliant.

I also posted some videos from my Ukrainian dance seminar. That should give you a chance to procrastinate for another 10 min.
no, it should not take me 5 years to take the GMAT (and if I actually studied continuously, I would have been done with it by now) but it feeeels that way.
Oh, the cats had the funniest faces. What’s gurning? according to my spellcheck this word does not exist.
Yes, the documentary about the host clubs was a bit sad but I’m sure the director didn’t really want to keep the boring/normal bits.
Good luck with deadlines!
Cheers,
Mariya

Just looking at those photos makes me feel warmer! (Although maybe my hot-water bottle is helping too.) And the cats! They’re cute! Why did they have funny mugs? Were they gurning? (For a spilt second I had an image of a cat holding a mug of tea, but then I realised that would be ridiculous.) (Cats would drink coffee, of course.)

I doubt it’s as expensive as that host club. Although, the waiters surely must get paid a lot to have to stand around in school uniform all day. But that host club; I just remember about the hosts vomiting up blood from drinking too much champagne and all the customers being lonely prostitutes, and it makes me feel a bit sad.

Is it really going to take 5 years to do the GMAT? I empathise with you. I know what not being able to do anything because of studying is like. In fact, I should be working now for this deadline that I’ve got on Thursday >_>

Hey, I tried this with the US spell-check and it didn’t work. This is truly a puritanical country!
Oh, yes Bermuda was great (see photos on http://marishat.multiply.com)
There are so many flowers there!! Oh, and I stayed at the $300 a night (that’s with a discount) hotels - I can get used to that! It is cold and cloudy and slightly rainy in NYC as well. We haven’t seen any snow. It’s all very strange here - it may snow in November or we may not see snow until February!
‘You Are What You Eat’ is exactly like watching a car crash and I love how mean the host is! They deserve it. Not that it stopped me from eat french fries (I could do without the poo part.) While on this subject, it is truly rewarding to open my fridge now and see it sparkling clean. I had to use steel wool on some of the parts. Gross! But cleaning an oven is not really necessary, since heat kills everything there, right? right!
As for the article, I warned you about the tone. The write just does not get it and never will. (loser) I’m sure that it’s super expensive but is it as expensive as the host club? I’ve never heard of “If…” I promise to watch everything once I’m done with GMAT (that should only take the next 5 years)
finally, kittens are so cute! I was walking around the hotel in Bermuda, there were 5 cats lying on the steps, one even came up to me. They had the funniest mugs I have ever seen.
Cheers!