This is my first entry since Monday, 10 September 2001. Very diary verite. Lists as life.

Usually I write stuff down in my notebook that I want to put in my weblog. But I haven't really been doing that so much. So I'll just tell you some stuff I wrote down in my notebook since 10 September.

• some phone numbers & email addresses, e.g., of the girl who sold me the readers used from my Political Psychology class so I didn't have to buy them new
• a citation for an article on software patents
• the approximate name of an author (Bernard Sumner) of some biography of Peter the Great that my history professor thinks isn't bad
• time and date and place of an infosession that would have taken place on September 11
• Russian homework
• Address and hours of the nearest blood bank
• The name and tagline of a new movie, Bandits, as seen on the ad on the side of an Alameda County Transit bus. Slogan: "Two's Company. Three's a Crime."
• Sun., 7 October, the Pacific Film Archive is showing Metropolis at 7pm, call 510-642-5249 for more info
• Address of a friend in Maryland to whom I mailed a letter
• Phone numbers to call to volunteer at a phone bank
• Day and time of my rescheduled scholarship interview (it would have been September 12)
• Information about various essay contests, e.g., Watchword Press, Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg
• Baraban, a site for Russians and Russian speakers in the San Francisco Bay area
• Phone number to call to volunteer as a Russian speaker for Jewish Family and Children's Services
• A reminder to meet my sister for an errand
• appointment to meet my Russian graduate student instructor
• stuff to go in Leonardonics
• A Tonight's Episode that Alexei suggested
• The embarrassment I suffered when my cell phone rang out loud in history class on Monday the 17th was much more intense than any fright I experienced during my hostage dream the previous night.
• (to be sung to the tune of "In the Jungle") In the lecture, the useless lecture, the poet writes a poem....
• Call numbers for books in the UC Berkeley library
• Appointment to meet with the professor with whom I'm doing research on open source software project organizations
• Titles of recent novels
• the beginning of a limerick
• "Grammatically Incorrect with Bill Maher"
• Yet Another To-Do List.

Today I find out that yet another person I know from my freshman year of college has a child. Dude, I can hardly write a paper, which is much easier labor. Wow. I don't know whether they're more mature than I am, which is a thought that takes me aback.

I saw Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and I took a dance class in which I learned some rudiments of mambo and a tiny bit of waltz, and I've cried and laughed and had intoxicating and interesting conversations. I'm moving on, and part of that is writing this. Thanks for listening.

And now I am going to go get free food at a recruitment/info session.

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Originally published by Sumana Harihareswara at http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/9/20/21926/9375