A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM / Сон во сне (full) Пробую переводить англоязычную поэзию. Приятного чтения :) A Dream Within a Dream (By Edgar Allan Poe) Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow — You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand — How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep — while I weep! O God! Can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? ************************************************ Сон во сне (Эдгар Аллан По) Прими сей поцелуй в чело! И на прощание с сего Позволь озвучить оправдание. Нет неправды твоих слов о том, Что мои дни были сплошным сном; Но если вдруг надежда гаснет в тень В ночи, а может это будет день, В видение, или может даже без него, Все пустое – что с того? Все то, что мог представить я себе, Всего лишь сон, приснившийся во сне. Мучимый прибоем край тех берегов; И я стою, вокруг стихии рев, И я держу в своих немеющих руках Златых песков лишь россыпи зерна. Как мало там! сквозь пальцы в никуда Стекает даже кроха, что некогда была. Бездвижен, бессильно лишь рыдаю я. О Бог! Могу ль я стиснуть руки крепко, Что есть сил, объять златой песок заветный? О Бог! Могу ль, о как тому я был бы рад, Спасти хоть толику от бури, не знающей пощад? Все то, что мог представить я себе, Всего лишь сон, приснившийся во сне?

Study and Studies Hi there! Please, help me to understand the difference. Where should I use study and studies?

The first day of getting the ball rolling Many of us sometimes face the stagnation. After the period of a great progression our results become smaller and smaller. We see it and lose our motivation: "I work a lot but I recieve too little." That is the same for any field: sport, career, study etc. We traveled the beuty vale before but now we are in a dirty marsh. We move slow, we don't se the end and we don't like that. It makes us lazy. We are looking for a comfortable place in this ugly swamp. There is a risk to remain it the same. Now I am going to cut the knot. I joined the programming courses which I've not finished before. From the start. I decided to spend more time on English. Now I will watch any show or movie only in English (except non-english, of course). I found my mp3 player and I got my wife's earphones – I will be jogging three times per week. Why did I decide that only now? I don't know. Maybe I should have the day as not as others. And I had it. My wife decided to go with me this morning instead of sleeping at home. Why? To break a routine, to make something different. You will not get something new until you will do something new. I hope it should work. We'll see.

Stagnation I start to feel stagnation in my life. It is not about my family but about a career. After a failing attempt to start a business in 2014-2015 I had a long time to find a job (thanks to economic troubles). I started to learn programming, joined network administration courses, changed my speciality to software testing in IT security field, returned to study English... Anything to get well-being for my family. And I found a good job. I dreamt a lot about this company before... And I stopped. I work well, I get good feedbacks on my results. But I stopped an improving of myself. My programming skills are stopped on the May-June level. I still have a problems with English speaking and listening, so I can't pass nor TOEFL or GRE with good result. I know this is hard times in my country and I should be happy to have any job. I want a progress, I want to continue my education, my study, to get high-demanded skills. And I have some concerns. Just imagine: you spent years and years to get high qulified speciality and... no one needs you. Because it is the crisis or because low-qualified employees are more needable. Like soviet engineers and scientists after the fall of USSR were redundant in the new system... My mother told me:"Get a C drive license(for trucks). Who knows what would be..." Maybe she was right)))))) Sorry for a decadent text, I think it is because of the early autumn)))

Annivarsary Today is two years as my wife and I were married)) Cool! I ordered the bigger copy of her wedding bouquet to remind her that great day and special cushion for pregnants to make her life more comfortable))) I thought picnic is a good idea. But now I even don't know about this night program because the weather is becoming worse and worse, and I need to change my plans. What do you do when you want to impress somebody? I really often hear that other married guys told me: "Don't marry, it's a trap!" "Wedding is the end of the life" "I lost my freedom" etc.. I can't understand that. After wedding I was flying my first time abroad. And after that I started to travel a lot, to meet many interesting people, bought a car and learnt to drive it, tried to start my own business. I always knew that I have a person who supports me anyway. I've never felt this before. Thank you for your interest. It would be cool if you will tell me about some date traditions which you are followed in))

the New Jerusalem Last weekend me and my wife have visited the old monastery near the city Istra. It called the New Jerusalem. It took me one hour and half to reach this place on a car. First of all I was shoked by Istra's roads. It looks like this city is contained of long winding streets and T-form crosses... I used yandex navigator app, but it was useful in this city because it made me turn in places when it was not allowed. After many "Damn!" we reach the New Jerusalem Museum. It have a reach collection of icon art and a lot of modern art works. I really don't like modern art. Not almost, no! Some works are really touch my innerspirit! But the most of them... I was disapointed because we needed a special ticket to make photo but I didn't know that when I had bought tickets. After all we sat in a car and went to the New Jerusalem monastery (you may see it on a photo). I've never been to Jerusalem and don't know how the Church of the Holy Sepulchre looks but wikipedia says that the New Jerusalem was built with plan of this Church by tzar Alexei Mikhailovich and patriarch Nikon (like a cameras =) ). It was under reconstruction and inner territory was partly enclosed. The most disapointing was waiting for us in the main bulding - the Voskresensky Catherdral. It was so beautiful, so unreal... and not allowed to make a photo. Why? I don't know. I remembered the St. Peter's Cathedral in Vatican. It was allowed to make photos in this incredible building. Except we was on mess, of course. But why is that here? And another funny reamrk: women should cover their heads in orthodox temples. But there are no shawls on the enter. They were on sale on the opposite side of the temple. That's strange. Usually it allowed for free in catholic churches where I was. Thanks God no one hissed on my wife and was not trying to chase us. By the way, we liked this trip. We visited a beautiful place and I hope that after the end of reconstruction it will be as wonderful as already reconstructed part of the complex.

All you need is patience and practice. All you need are patience and practice. Which is right? What's the difference?

Work in shorts I have never could to come at work in shorts. Really! Any job I had had a strong dress code: no shorts no singlets\vests (майка?). And it is terrible on summer. Just imagine: there is the hot July, cramped and suffocating trains/subway/buses, you need one and half hour to reach your workplace... And you wear trousers and shirt (thanks I may not wear a jacket or suit). I recented: why women may wear short skirts or light dresses on summer but men should boil their housekeepings in trousers and suits? I got a new job one month ago, now I am sqa specialist and I don't have any dress code requirements. I even don't have a fixed time of my work day. And you know I didn't become a dirty pig. I wash my head, iron my clothes, clean the shoes, use perfume as I did it before. I have the only one difference: I work in shorts. And that is really comfortable! And I will never go to work where I should wear trousers in the +30 heat. Why? Because I think that an employer should respect his employees first of all but not stupid habits which is reason of summer suffering. Thank you for attention! I also would be pleased if you could tell me about your position of this theme.

Changing a workplace At last I have moved out from this damn table! I worked for one month sitting by my back to the door (sorry, I really don't know how to explain it better). Anyone who move beside the door is looking at my monitor screen. There is no crime, of course no! But English has a great word — privacy. Yes, that's the key. When you don't have privacy you feel uncomfortable. Even if you live in one room with 15 guys you need your own private space. Little but private, only yours. And other people may enter this space only if you would allow them to do that. I tried to not focuse on that. "Pfff... What's the problem? Everybody sees my screen? It doesn't matter because I am working!" - I thought. But the sense of little discomfort didn't leave me. No one cares about what I do and what is on my screen but I don't feel privacy and it annoyed me. But this morning I have moved away to... nearby table))) And now my back is lookin' at the wall))) I am not sure if I feel comfortable, but I got an idea to write a note for you, my dear friend))) Thank you and good luck.