A photographer snapped my visage for the yearbook. In two to four weeks, I should receive proofs so that I can pick a shot to represent me for posterity. I ended up putting down silly …

Another lunch with Brandon. I told all sorts of high school stories starring Aaron Benavidez and Ana Cruz and Angel Ayon and even other people whose names don't begin with the letter A, such as …

John got my letter (which included a BBC) in less than a week! I was expecting another Ice Age to pass before the mail moved east.

Every once in a while, you think, "oh, people have gotten it, Narcissus doesn't have any more minions through which to construct web pages." And then you look up your friends' enemies. The self-indulgent neurosis …

Professor John Searle, philosopher of the mind and language and consciousness, speaks at Black Oak Books in Berkeley this Thursday evening at 7:30. As per a previous entry, I suggest picketing Prof. Searle with signs …

A.O. Scott of The New York Times says of John Travolta (with special regard to Domestic Disturbance), "It is hard to think of anyone who has wasted so much talent in so many bad pictures." …

I'm sort of starting to write short fiction again. I might even submit something to one of these contests open to UC Berkeley undergrads. Or even submit to the Berkeley Fiction Review.

My dad told me about this Indian news-site's article about the Indian prime minister's visit to St. Petersburg. I find it refreshing that Atal Bihari Vajpayee can say, in good conscience, "I must confess that …

I got this very surprising good and fast grade on the Russian test I took yesterday. I got an almost perfect score on the listening section, and five out of five points for the bonus …

I had a rather eventful evening. I practiced my handball with Robin (not the same Robin with whom I studied history a week ago, for the midterm on which I got a lower score than …