On Saturday, I rolled out of bed at about 10:25 for a 10:30 meeting with Tim O'Conner, some ACTR bigwig. He was in town and wanted to have a meeting with all of us to make sure we were happy, etc. Essentially, we're all happy. This made Tim happy. At about 1, Rachel (one of the brits) and I went out CD-ROM hunting. It seems that she'd been having trouble finding an inexpensive copy of Windows NT Server 4.0. I told her that I had a couple of ideas. We found one on Arbat, though she decided not to buy it. They were also selling copies of Windows "96" and "beta" copies of MS Office "97." All of this for between 5 and 16 dollars per CD. Not too shabby. Rachel and I had to be back at the dorm by four because a bunch of people were going out to dinner at "Santa Fe" before going to see Swan Lake at the Kremlin. As we left the dorm, I was informed that we were not in fact going to Santa Fe, but to Pizza Hut. The plan was to go to Pizza Hut on Tverskaya, where there would be no chance in hell of getting 20 people in. I convinced them that we should go to the Pizza Hut by Kievsky Vokzal. When we got there, we discovered a line about 40 people long. The next suggestion was to try "Chinese Take Away" down the street at the John Bull Pub. (Incidentally, this pub is located in Kutuzovsky Prospekt 4, which some of you may recognise as the building I lived in the first time I was in moscow.) It wasn't too bad. It was greasy, poorly prepared and the menu didn't have much on it. In short, it's everything crap chinese is supposed to be....except cheap. An order of pan fried dumplings was about $5. Not outrageous...but not wonderful. Since we opted for takeout rather than eating in the pub itself, the only place we could find to sit was on the edge of the building itself which was almost wide enough to sit on. It must have been the best advertisement the restaurant could have asked for--20 western kids sitting outside shoveling food into their mouths as fast as their chopsticks could carry it. From there, I showed the brits how to get to the kremlin to see their play and headed home to veg and write letters. I ended up having tea with Carrie and Jeff and not writing so many letters...Well, that's life. Carrie and Jeff had just returned from dinner at the Vietnamise place that I'd been trying to get people to go to all week. Well, that's where I'm headed in about an hour...so I guess I can't complain too much. Wow, this is the first time in about a week that I've been caught up on journal entries....neat...now I can slack off for four days again ;)