Once again, it's two am on a school night and I'm just getting around to writing my journal entry...i should learn better habits..but I procrastinated for a while by cleaning my room tonight...My friend Martina helped me by writing some email on my notebook while I cleaned...in this way,I wasn't even tempted to take a break to play around.. Today, during the break between first and second classes, I called Todd at CCI. (the place I'm contracting with) He told me that Renault (the guy in charge of IT at Renissance Capital (the place I was yesterday) was really impressed with me and that he had encouraged Todd not to let me leave the country in december, but to stay on full time. Renault apparently went on to say that if Todd/CCI didn't do this, he/RenCap would. I'm quite flattered, but I'm quite returning to the states in december. After class today, I headed off to visit Olga Aleksandrovna and her new school again.. I thought that today was going to be the day when I talked to 10th graders about the american educational system....But no...I got to chat with the teachers....they want to pick up american slang....so I got to explain such wonderful expressions as "to be into something" and "hip and trendy." The session ran for about an hour. Apparently the deal is that I'll do a total of 5 such sessions and get paid 300,000 rubles total at the end. Not such bad money...obviously not as good as consulting...but I can cope...I'm only really doing this as a favor to olga, anyway. After the discussion, I helped olga translate a letter to a school in the states into english. This evening, I've just been hanging around...packing, sweeping, etc. See y'all in two weeks.