lena jan, i am loving your logs about tbilisi... it is making me want to jump in a car and join you. they are wonderful... please keep them up. i especially love the comparisons on lifestyle since it is something i have been very curious about for a while.

i am loving work so far which is a really big relief and i am loving married life (which is also a great thing). i have been quite busy and had a nice weekend. first and foremost, we were looking for a space to put arthur' studio... (now that we rented his big house out and moved into my little one)... so we have been shopping around for space... but then it dawned on me. we have a guest bedroom (which seems to be always full and that seems to always be a hinderance on our life as a new couple) ... so what if we turned the guest bedroom into a studio. that would kills a whole flock with one stone. his studio would be super close and available to him when he has bursts of ideas and inspirations... and he could have alone time with the studio when i am at work AND we will have less overnight guests so that we can be alone in our own house once in a while as newleyweds. perfect. so we spent a better part of this weekend building office furniture and pretending the microphone is on for a huge pretend concert to the wall that faces west in our studio. fun

we went to a blessing of a new house bought and remodelled by an american armenian here in yerevan. mr. gurgen melikian (see famous people on this site) was there and so were a few other department chairs of yerevan state university. they were partying hard hard hard. toasts, dancing, and singing. the department head of armenian literature was singing an amazing selection of old armenian songs. i was brave enough to ask him to sing my favorite song (kankanavor enger) and he went into a one hour amazing lecture on the history of the song. it was amazing. i am going to try to get the words... post them and then repeat the history i heard. i think you guys will find it interesting.

will write more later.