Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
I know a fella who learned Spanish by reading Neruda in the original, speaking of Pablo. In fact, that fella is John Morearty, of whom I will speak much more in the next few hours.
Waah! I failed the driver's test again. This time I had a rather nice male examiner and seemed to be doing okay all the way till the end. I pulled into the DMV driveway and …
Today I try once more to get that fine card, that signifier of responsibility and adulthood, that ticket into the polluting class, the driver's license. The test takes place around 11:15, in a few scant …
India Post headline: "Being Fired is a State of Mind." Wait, no.
I gave in and read Salon's "Masterpiece" on "Seinfeld." The last page especially reminded me of a high school friend, Karl Neuharth, who was at Pepperdine last I heard, but who now has completely disappeared …
Yesterday I had a hanging-out bonanza. Jeana came over and we had tea and discussed gender and folklore. Then Zack and I had dinner and he helped me move a bunch of stuff to Nandini's …
My new roommate, Paulina, loves "My Word!" and her father adores P.G. Wodehouse. Terrific! My gradual-move-in plan has been abandoned. The only things holding me in my old place now are logistics: I have to …
And I got to talk with Angel! Huzzah! "It's the left-turn lane, not the you've-already-turned-left-and-now-you-merge-into-the-right-lane lane."
Today, after absolutely hating hating hating my parents' constant bickering, I practiced driving and went to Kaiser Permanente to rid the house of old magazines and get some pills and get some bloodwork done. (By …
David Plotz sounds great in his last few paragraphs of this article about plagiarism.