Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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18 Oct 2001, 3:37 a.m.

Eco, handball, worrying, and the teevee.

Wednesday. Finished The Name of the Rose. I stayed up until something like 1 am on Wednesday morning finishing The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. This is a book that Seth and Leonard …

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16 Oct 2001, 8:47 a.m.

Some of the best things in life might be things.

"Man is born free..." Can you find the Rousseau reference in this picture? Immaterial! I was looking through my stuff this morning for various reasons. I have quite a few books and some good CDs. …

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12 Oct 2001, 12:00 p.m.

Blood, social psych, glass, Enterprise, &tc.

So this entry is really an agglomeration of a bunch of stuff that's been floating in my head the past few days. Pick and choose from the smorgasbord of Sumana! Air hockey. When I played …

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09 Sep 2001, 8:31 a.m.

The Great Conversation ... About Savings!

So let me contribute to the discourse about yesterday's events. You've heard from Leonard. You've heard from Seth. Now, the third side of the story. brainwane's take. So Leonard and I wished to join Mr. …

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07 Sep 2001, 12:24 p.m.

Job Fair, Day 3

This is really almost all I want to talk about (except for the fact that Seth dropping by unexpectedly yesterday was one of the ten best surprises I've ever had in my life). Freebies from …

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14 Aug 2001, 9:30 a.m.

Zhili Buili

Hindi film, steering, reading, writhing, and arithmetic. Title from the intro to most Russian fairy tales, "Once there was..." (mutatis mutandis for gender and number, of course). Lagaan. Today I finished watching Lagaan, also known …

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05 Aug 2001, 4:35 a.m.

I can't believe I'm not staying

And yet, I Can't Stop Leaving St. Petersburg! I hit Frankfurt tonight, then leave there the next day and arrive in Washington, D.C. on Monday afternoon local time. Then I leave D.C. on Tuesday morning …

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23 Jul 2001, 5:50 a.m.

Hi, I'm fine, and back in Piter

This is the "I'm alive, though my forehead is one large mass of bug bites" entry. I'm back in St. Petersburg, working on the Solovki Islands travelogue. John's diary of the trip will probably be …

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17 Jul 2001, 7:09 a.m.

St. Petersburger and Cheese

"That's not blasphemy, that's just plain common sense!" -- Katie yesterday Okay, first priority is a long-delayed link to John's Journal of St. Petersburg happenings. Just another perspective. Link to it, read it, comment on …

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14 Jul 2001, 8:19 a.m.

The Intersection of Doom...and Death

A lot of very eclectic material in today's entry. The title refers to the intersection near my university (university may not actually be mine), Herzen Pedagogical something-or-other in St. Petersburg, Russia. This intersection has no …

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