Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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12 Nov 2001, 11:26 a.m.

Frustration. I tried to buy some stamps at a…

Frustration. I tried to buy some stamps at a vending machine in the post office annex on Allston Way. It ate my $4.00 and gave me back 60 cents in change but did not give …

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09 Nov 2001, 16:51 p.m.

I have to read Fathers and Sons by Turgenev over…

I have to read Fathers and Sons by Turgenev over the weekend. Good thing it'll actually interest me.

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09 Nov 2001, 13:32 p.m.

Crying: Last night I read Harlan Ellison's Paladin of the…

Crying: Last night I read Harlan Ellison's Paladin of the Lost Hour and cried. I've been thinking that nothing lasts. Sherwood Anderson has this great line in Winesburg, Ohio, in the short story "Sophistication." There …

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04 Nov 2001, 21:23 p.m.

Today was the first time in ages that I've started…

Today was the first time in ages that I've started and finished a book in the same day. Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog amused me and certainly pulled me along. She surprised …

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03 Nov 2001, 8:33 a.m.

What have I been reading? The Design of Everyday Things…

What have I been reading? The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, and Peter Maass's articles.

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31 Oct 2001, 13:33 p.m.

I applied to join Slate's Book Club using a modified…

I applied to join Slate's Book Club using a modified version of my anti-Name of the Rose screed. Wish me luck, less on that than on the midterm I'll take in half an hour. Tsar …

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31 Oct 2001, 12:57 p.m.

Yesterday, as I walked home in the dark at 5:45pm…

Yesterday, as I walked home in the dark at 5:45pm or so in the pitch-black night interrupted by soft haloes of streetlights and harsh beams of auto headlights-- the time change still disorients me -- …

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30 Oct 2001, 8:30 a.m.

I've actually caught up a tiny bit on my Russian…

I've actually caught up a tiny bit on my Russian Imperial History reading, which is quite fortunate, since I have a midterm tomorrow. Two passages particularly caught my eye. The first, I excerpt from "Memoir …

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30 Oct 2001, 8:11 a.m.

By the way, I finished Newton's Cannon and liked it.…

By the way, I finished Newton's Cannon and liked it. Now I need to read the rest of The Age of Unreason. I'm just glad that this sequel addiction doesn't go for, say, history. "Well, …

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29 Oct 2001, 16:01 p.m.

Why must Bad Subjects texts be such wankery? Why…

Why must Bad Subjects texts be such wankery? Why is "I was ready for punk rock." the first simple declarative sentence in this analysis-cum-memoir of The Prisoner?

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