It would appear that the former bureaucrats of the Soviet Union have found a warm home in Ukraine. I set my clock to get up early so that I could catch that bitch Linda Tripp on Larry King. I felt normal for the first time in weeks. I was disappointed to discover that they must lag the LK shows here because the show was a Madonna rerun. Now I have to consider whether I will get up early tomorrow.
Life is tough.
I dropped off Vadim's letter to his friends in the shop and we looked for instant coffee for Ed. We did find Nescafe Gold at the Moscow Transit but they wanted 320,000 manat for a fair sized bottle. The staff have been searching since last week for paper or plastic plates for the party and simply cannot find them. I guess we will have no cakes or crumbly foods of any kind. The Ashgabat train station seen from the north.