Spreading Sheets on the Beach

Russia is a peculiar place.

You fall into a rhythm.  When you wander into the middle of a race, you either change your gait, or end up in traction.  Here, on the periphery of the city, it’s slow.  The unintelligible language changes its cadence, the people take the stairs one at a time, and if you’re in a hurry, there’s always someone in the way.  It’s inevitable.  Late for an appointment?  Good luck making up for lost time when you’re stuck behind a battalion of babushkas walking shoulder-to-shoulder.  They don’t look too heavy.  Maybe I can just start picking them up and placing them behind me…

As you move towards the center of the city, the speed changes.  I confess, I’ve grown tired of running.  Pivoting and pirouetting through intersecting streams of businessmen, tourists, and schoolchildren.  There’s never enough time, one is likely to think, as one walks up a escalator that stretches into the dim distance of the Moscow over-world.  The screaming, shrieking, wailing over-world, a tumult of sound and a circus of disaster.  The Metro is at twice its capacity, and the road system in the city proper doesn’t bustle–it marinates in a thick cloud of exhaust, punctuated by the futilely insistent pleading of horns in amongst a sea of idling cars. 

Springtime has delivered depressing weather.  I admit, it’s warmer.  But the cold winter is clean, pristine, like a carefully reconstructed corpse at an open-casket wake.  Spring here is filthy.  Drainage in this city defies belief, as deep puddles of water coalesce in gutters and start begging for "pond" status.  You learn to be careful about shoes; after you’ve kicked off six pairs to the curb, you realize that, just perhaps, those cheap, clunky-looking waterproof dress shoes are on the feet of every man for a reason.  So I zip up my 700-ruble shoes–I can’t remember the last time I owned a pair of shoes that didn’t have laces–and head out into the murky, ambivalent-gray day.

There are people everywhere.  Everywhere.  Every-fucking-where.  I take a side street to work, and the buildings funnel the wind until it’s a whipped-up gale.  I’m painfully aware of the thin cotton of my nice trousers, and how, at the moment, they can’t help but display the…topography…of my manlier parts.  And by manlier parts, I don’t mean a fear of commitment or my beard.  So I adjust my bag so it bounces in front of me.  After about two minutes of having a five-pound satchel bounce off my testicles, I start to feel like I just might vomit.  I adjust it back to its original position, and shuffle awkwardly with my hands in my pants pushed outward, as if trying, yet failing, to tear them completely off of my legs.  I look ridiculous, but at least as the high-heeled women clip-clop past me towards the Metro, they’re not confronted by my thinly-veiled genitals.  There’s a reason why it was Fergie singing about her lovely lady lumps, and not Will.I.Am waxing poetic about his male camel toe.

Accents are amazing, and I’ve always been pretty awful at imitating them.  No more–I can do a spot-on Russian accent now.  Foreign accents are great, because what you hear are the attributes of their native tongue projected unto your own.  What do Russians do?  They drop articles.  Why?  There are no articles in Russian.  What else do they do?  They mix up the tenses.  Why?  Because there are twelve tenses in English–and I’m inclined to agree that that is just way too many.  Explaining the difference between "I ate," "I was eating," "I had eaten," and "I had been eating" can take forever.  For-fucking-ever.

By far, my favorite aspect of the Russian accent is how vowel sounds get shifted.  "Good" becomes "gude," and now I’m talking to a Connery-era Bond Villain.  "Sheep" becomes "ship," and so on.  And so when a well-respected business executive meets with me and says, "I need a vacation," and I innocently respond inquisitively, the response of "I just need to spread a shit on a bitch" can’t help but elicit a choked-off laugh.  Never before has spreading a sheet on a beach sounded quite so misogynistic.  Then when she elaborates–"I love bitches, but hate dirty bitches," I have to excuse myself to the bathroom.

Either way, spring is here, and the season is just a segue to summer.  I’ve grown a bit tired of this city; the attitude, the aggressiveness, the hectic scrambling after something that you’ll never check.  It’s getting to be that time to head on home, I think, head held high.  I’m getting married on the second of next month, down at the "Wedding Palace."  Although there’s nothing palatial about a Soviet-era concrete box built on a busy thoroughfare, I suppose purpose can make a palace.  And I think, sometimes, one change demands another.  In conclusion: if you’re stateside, are you hiring? 🙂

The Missus, in a picture she’ll be mad at me for posting:

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April 16, 2012

You’re getting married?! Congrats!!

April 16, 2012

I LOVE the pic! Hope all goes well for the big event Great entry, I’m a big fan of accents

April 17, 2012

RYN- He is probably attempting at punishing me for not giving him what he wants but, tbh, he is wasting his time. I cannot be bothered with him any more. You can pick up Russian when hanging out with your friends and meeting native Russian speakers. Being surrounded by a language is the best way and opportunity to learn it ;]

April 20, 2012

I like the picture, and your missus is attractive! Lots of people walking in the streets, there… no cars? The economy is supposed to be improving, it just kinda depends upon what your skill set is. Your dissection of Russian vs English was interesting and amusing! I know tenses can be annoying, but they do add clarity to communication. For really annoying tenses, try French, which has 23 tenses!That makes English seem like a happy middle ground, imho.

April 22, 2012

the city looks beautiful. i can understand the fast pace though…it’s that way in many big cities. It’s exciting for the first year or so of experiencing it, but I can understand it getting old fast. I’ve never had any desire to go to Russia, but the picture you took…looks like a lovely place…a place to see at some point in my lifetime 🙂

April 22, 2012

and i agree on the english language. that’s quite funny…trying to explain all the differences. i’m learning spanish as a second language, and sometimes that’s hard to remember when to use things like the subjunctive, but learning english as a 2nd language or any other but the first language would really suck

April 30, 2012

The picture is captivating. Congrats! It sounds like everything is falling into place for you, that’s wonderful! 🙂 Good luck with your wedding!