About

I live in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic. I moved here with my husband (OBF) and cats in October 2006.

This is called Verbs of Leisure not only because I do a lot of yachting here, but also because it’s so much easier to make a verb of leisure in Russian than to make a verb of motion. Expressing motion in Russian is incredibly complex. It is a lie that Russian has 400 words for snow. It is a fact that they have 400 words for going. Because I am a lazy person with tiny tiny pores in my brain, I never absorbed most of the information about verbs of motion oh, the first three or four times it was taught to me.

But certain verbs of leisure, like snowboarding, skiiing, horseriding, are all easy to string together. I sometimes make new verbs of leisure in my head, and rhyme them with each other by adding the same prefix and suffix to each. Then I try to peddle them in casual conversation to see if people get my drift.

I am not only making new verbs of leisure, I am executing them. Or rather, bringing them to life. I have time on my hands now, so I thought I’d put some of that time in the Internet bank by starting this blog.