Along on this trip is a gentleman lobbyist for an alcohol company. In addition to being a genuinely good guy, he also is in the 1k club. I don't know what that means conceptually, but pragmatically it means I'm sitting in the United Club. Which is way way more civilized than being camped out on the airport floor.
Today we met with the state department, and some professors of Russian. And learned that the name for what we're doing is citizen diplomacy or "third-tier" diplomacy. This made me slightly more anxious - it's like my normal anxiety "I want 'em to like me" on steroids "they GOTTA like me."
And, in other news, it turns out that my friends are the only ones who asked about Pussy Riot. Which says something about my friends. I love you people.
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