In other fabulous news, I am all set to distribute my dissertation this coming Monday. I cannot express how happy this makes me. I spent a few hours today culling through my photos and collected archival images from 2008-2009, feeling intensely nostalgic. I share with you a few at my random and impetuous choice.
Former PCV Scott Slankard and me on a midsummer hike in Mangup Kale, Crimea.
Me, Franz, and Mykhailo Tafiychuk on our first trip to the Tafiychuk homestead in May 2008. (Photo by Roman Pechizhak)
Milara and I relax on May Day.
An amazing archival image given to me by Rustem Eminov of the Khan's Palace in Bakhchisaray - of a student Crimean Tatar ensemble (that included his grandmother, Zeyneb Lumanova) in 1933 in Simferopol.
There are a billion more, but you'll have to read the diss to see those. Ha! I dare you.
