I am due September 21th, and all I can tell you guys is that I'm super thrilled. All the scans so far indicate a healthy baby, and I am doing quite fine too. So all in all a good pregnancy so far.
Thats it for today really. Just wanted to share my joy with the world.


20 weeks

Something happens to me during my pregnancy.
I forget my resolution never to make something that can be bad for the baby, forget my goal to be slim (in 2009), 

(do you know how many calories you consume each time you go to Starbucks?
A Starbucks Cappuccino prepared with nonfat milk, about 100 calories (with whole milk is 150 calories). A regular cafe latte has 260 calories, while a caffe mocha has a whopping 400 calories.
Get the calorie count for your favorite Starbucks drink.)

and I find myself standing in the line to pay two hundred roubles and some odd change for a grande Latte in Starbucks.

(as you can guess Caffé Latte is my favourite coffee drink among all, and it would be interesting to see which one do you like through the poll below. You can visit Lokesh Dhakar blog to find some useful information about some of the small coffee drinks differences.)

But it's not the only coffee house that I visit to satisfy my addiction.
Another great and definitely more pleasant place is Coffeemania (on Bolshaya Nikitskaya (inside) or Komsomolsky prospect (outside or take-away)).
Who will win in the battle Coffeemania vs Starbucks? Both places are handy, if you ask me, and sell coffee, but that’s really where the similarity ends. Starbucks wants to be the ‘3rd place’ in your life, after your house and your office. They create a ‘living room’ atmosphere, and it works.
Coffeemania proceed further and become a combo of cake shop, café and restaurant, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. It has better coffee, but is more expensive.
Consequently, I usually go to one of these places depending on my (or my companion) hunger or what is on my way, and as both of them are offering really good coffee in Moscow I’ll keep going back.

Leave a comment and let me know.

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Sometimes writing a bibliography with all the formatting rules is not an easy task. There are some links to help you get it done right.

1. OttoBib. This handy little browser app takes the ISBN [International Standard Book Numbers] of the books you want to reference and changes that into one of three formats, MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian. That’s it, instant references.
OttoBib accepts both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13, and will also spit out a permalink of the results so you don’t have to enter the numbers again.

2. EasyBib.com is a little better at times - you might have to input more, but it handles the formatting better. And allows you to include all your non-book sources like periodicals and web sources.

If you know any other good bibliography generator sites you want to share, let me know by posting a comment.

05/08/2007

The second number one photographer (first is Michael Kenna) in my life. I admire all his photographs!

If you want to give detailed answer - post a comment - it would be interesting.

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Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Thomas Edison

In addition to previous post, I publish here my search engines for Safari. Hope, you'll find it useful.