Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Or perhaps, given the foci of my Russian classes lately: Verbs of Motion II: They're Back, and They're Going to Tell You How They Got Here! I went to the Hermitage for the first time …
George Orwell wrote 1984 after reading We and Brave New World. (I'm reading We right now -- or I guess I should call it Mui, since I'm reading it in Russia and it was written …
Yesterday I finished reading Angela's Ashes and started reading We. Catholicism appeals to me, in the same way as I imagine it appeals to a lot of people, what with the unconditional redemption and state …
Kurt Vonnegut, Bertrand Russell, Star Trek, Martin Gardner, The Smiths, Big Tobacco, Angel, Robert Browning. So today I finished Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Sure, I also packed a great deal for the St. Petersburg trip, …
Today -- not much. Shopped and otherwise prepared for the Russia trip, took a long nap, reread Go Jump in the Pool! by Gordon Korman, e-mailed a bit, read some of The Age of Kali …
A tiny little litany of what I've done today. I played mini-golf with Steve/holeburning, the second person in two days to drive down from the SanFran Bay Area to come see me in scenic Stockton. …
What else is there to do in Stockton, California, but write diary entries and emails, delay learning more Russian, get scared at travel advisories, read the work of dead white guys, and complain about the …
All of a sudden, I have a sense of style. No, it's not sudden. It's just surfacing. I hesitate to either say that it has sprouted, or that I was pushing its head down with …
I saw part of a movie, I read some stuff, I looked at some art, I gotta clean. I went on Tuesday night to see Satyajit Ray's movie Charulata at the Fine Arts Theater at …
"So puns have a slight aphrodisiac effect on me." "You mean they turn you on. Come on, use street language." "No! We are not on the street. The street is over there, beyond that plaque …