Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Happy birthday to Rachel (psst: I noticed the purse first), who is but a whippersnapper compared to old fogeys such as myself and her brother. As old as I get, as mature and understanding as …
I wonder how many weblogs I like are written by ex-Mormons. I knew about Adam and Leonard, but Did You Know that Teresa Nielsen Hayden (of Making Light fame) was excommunicated from the Church of …
I'm sick. I needed to take a nap and I was a little tired. So I set myself up with tissues and water, and put on a soothing tape of Russian choral music, and tried …
I'm a liar. Ullman's book called to me and I finished it last night. Quite good. Still sick. "Whatever angels call you, go!"
Finished Crescent (April) by Diana Abu-Jaber, which is very good. The blurb calls it an Arab-American Like Water For Chocolate, and though I haven't read Like Water that seems right. I laughed and cried and …
Sick. Cold. Very demanding nose and violent sneezing in packs of threes, not my usual pairs. Left work early, may skip tomorrow. I've already had my yearly cold, darnit!
I'm writing this from my much more functional PC. Thanks, Michael. Thanks also to Leonard.
"He's so cute! 'Hi! I'm eager about science!' Like a female Camille Paglia!" "A female Camille Paglia. That's good." and [Leslie eats a hamburger.] Melissa: You should eat hamburgers every day. Me: Wasn't that a …
Who's coming to Cody's Books in March? Susie Bright, Pico Iyer, Bharati Mukherjee, Randall Kennedy, Alice Walker, and Marion Nestle, among others. In fact, tonight itself at 7:30 I'll introduce New York Times science writer …