Well this is pretty cool.

As I am writing this I am listening to WZLY. Yes, that WZLY, the "you are listening to WZLY, 91.5fm the radio station of Wellesley College broadcasting from Wellesley, Massachusetts" WZLY.

[a Russian babushka enjoying WZLY]

Yes, Sam and Allison finally fixed webcasting which now works both ON and OFF (and how very far off!!) campus. So here I am listening away while doing my writing class homework. And what was kind of hilarious was the first song that I heard via off-campus webcasting, the song that was playing when I turned it on, was "L'Chaim" from Fiddler on the Roof..... a musical that takes place in, none other than everyone's favorite country, Russia. Ha. Anyway, if you want to listen to my friends' shows go here and click "listen." I even made myself a new version of the WZLY fall broadcasting schedule to adjust for the eight hour time difference.... the only thing is that if I want to listen to Rosie's show, for example, it means I have to be awake from 6am to 8am on Wednesday mornings. Well, we'll see. Maybe I'll start going to bed really early and do all my homework in the morning instead while listening to WZLY.

Today was another gorgeous fall day..... "бабье лето" as they call "Indian summer" in Russian. [AHH NOW MARYCATE IS PLAYING "The Boy in the Bubble," only one of my favorite Paul Simon songs EVER].... I had these epic plans to do all this homework right after school and get super ahead on things and also get a lot of sleep..... but how is that possible when it is 60-something degrees outside and the air smells good and clean and crispy and there are no clouds whatsoever? Yeah, not so much. I ended up sitting on the pedestrian street eating ice cream bars and sharing a Baltika 5 with Ilana, Maneka and Lauren, just like I did all summer. When Maneka and Lauren needed to go to class, Ilana and I continued to enjoy our return to summer by sitting on the beach at Peter and Paul's Fortress. My god, basking in the sun put me in such a good mood. Seriously, I am still really happy right now after all that exposure to some good Vitamin D or whatever it is in sunlight that makes people feel so good. And then when Ilana went off to speak English with that child she babysits, I decided once again to walk home. As Olga said when I got home, "You need to walk around as much as possible now before it gets cold!" So I walked from Peter & Paul's Fortress all the way back to my apartment at a leisurely rate, taking just about an hour. I like walking around the city like that because I figure out how everything actually connects to each other, not just how it all relates to the metro.... it's kind of a similar feeling to when I was driving around all those route 16 and route 9 backroads last year at Wellesley and finally figured out all all the towns in the Greater Boston Area connect to one and other and not just how they connect to 128. Anyway, now I am hugely rambling and should get back to working on my phonetics homework but am ever so cheerful as MaryCate is now playing "Color of the Wind" from Pocahontas.