Blargh

 I bizarrely want to learn Russian.  Not sure why.  Books are cheap though, so I will probably order one on amazon.com soon enough--not that I'll have time to work on it.  I'm still on pg1 of Coraline, after all.

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Years of studying the Cold War, years and years of politics and history classes, until I can't bear to look at another goddamn memo, briefing, article, memoir, whatever any class can throw at me--and I CAN'T WRITE A BLOODY TIMELINE???

So yeah.  Maybe I'll get partial credit for that.  I really think it was a 1pt per question sort of quiz though, so I'm probably just screwed there. I moved the Berlin Blockade to before the Cuban Missile Crisis (I have no clue if it is or not, but they were worried about Berlin...), but that doesn't change how I don't know exactly when Gorbachev came to power or when Sputnik was.  I mean, seriously, Sputnik.  I'd complain about putting Sputnik on the same timeline as everything else, except that I agree Sputnik's pretty important, all things considered.  I'm not checking how far off my answers were just yet.  My pride can't take it.

On the upside, I think the entire class epic failed that question.

In other news: The Site That Shall Not Be Named-- R.I.P.