19-year-old Olga Antonova feels extremely well-rested. She should. After all, she slept for more than 12 hours last night and is averaging more than 10 hours of sleep per night over the past year.

“I’ve always enjoyed sleeping,” Antonova, a second-year student at Moscow’s Plekhanov Institute of Economics, says. “I guess it’s just a deeply ingrained habit.” Like most of her classmates, she has not actually visited class in more than a year.

On a typical day, Antonova will go to bed at about 6 a.m. and wake up at around 5 p.m. This schedule, she explains, allows her ample time to enjoy the other great love in her life: shopping for shoes.

“Most of the shoe stores close by 8, so if I’m not up by 5 or 6 in the evening I won’t have time to get showered and go shopping. Of course, I prefer to trim my stripe before I go looking for shoes,” she notes, referring to the neatly shaved snapper look popular among post-pubescent Russian females. “But on days when I sleep in until 7 or so, there just isn’t time, so I wait until later on to trim it.”

Antonova’s father is a commercial director for an unspecified trading firm and provides his daughter with enough money to purchase 3-4 new pairs of shoes each month. Although this average places her solidly in the upper class of dyevushka shoe-buyers, Antonova still feels “frustrated” at times.

“If I had my way, I’d buy at least one new pair of shoes every single shopping day of the year. There’s nothing more annoying than watching one of your girlfriends buy new shoes when you can’t,” she says. “It’s so tiring pretending not to be envious.”

Antonova looks forward to marriage, preferably to a “nice” man whose vast income enables her to buy all the shoes she wants.

“Of course, we’ll live in an elitny neighborhood, in a Western-remont apartment with luxurious king-size bed.” Once married, Antonova says she intends to sleep for up to 16 hours each day. “It will be exhausting shopping for all those shoes,” she notes.