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Well, it won't seem like much for some, but I've got my 5D just half an hour ago and, I think, got the closest to heaven I haven't had much chance to play with it yet because suddenly all three of my batteries went dead so I'm waiting patiently for at least one to charge. I ordered a kit with a 24-70mm L and while it is amazing and beautiful and what not, it's also heavy as hell!! While a possibility of getting a camera boy to carry it all around for me stayed just that - a possibility - when I got a 70-200mm, now it's morphing into reality very quickly. Anyone up for a part-time job?

Anyway, as regards the rest of my life since the last entry - I had two exhibitions (my first ones), in Moscow and in my home town Krasnodar, and surprisingly I'm off to China in July to show my photos in Harbin. I will be participating in a delegation on behalf of the City Hall of Krasnodar. I still can't quite believe it!

My birthday came and went on Wednesday and it was a really really nice one - and I got the most amazing cake ever from my boyfriend. I also got myself a Sony handycam for a present which took me two weeks to order-cancel due to unavailability-reorder again and get it just in time for the glorious Buzko day. Now when I'm surrounded by the best gadgets, I couldn't be happier!

And the most amazing news is I've got a cat! Ok, some people won't think that as amazing as an exhibition in China, but honestly this is the first time in my 23 year-long life that I went completely against my parents' wishes and got a pet. Considering the fact that I live in a flat full of potentially attractive scratching places, including leather sofas and beds, it's no wonder my parents don't want a cat. But, then again, considering my parents live some 4000 miles away (take or give) it's no wonder I finally plucked up my courage to get one. Unsurprisingly, my parents don't know about him yet. And I'm not sure they ever will. I've been procuring evil designs to escape telling them, including going into the furtherest room in the flat and shutting all the doors so that they can't hear him miaowing when I'm on the phone to either mum or dad. I'm planning to hide him somewhere when they come to visit.

So that's a short update on the Buzko life, if I ever get around to it, I will add something later!