Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Bedazzled has quite funny lines re: the devil, God, and religion in general. Example (the devil bemoans his help): "What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages." I suspect that …
Less than a week till Leonard returns for the Thanksgiving break. I'm quite glad. In the meantime, I am watching West Wing, Enterprise, Arrested Development, and the original Bedazzled movie. And I am beginning to …
"...advice to any women reading this: if you think you're being underpaid, don't be afraid to look for another job and then either take it or use it as leverage for a pay raise."
In the past few months, I've forgotten to attend a party, an improv performance, and now a lunch with Sarah. And I really did want to do all of these things! I am sorry, Zed, …
Or Christopher Kimball, for that matter. A gynecologist learns how to cook a turkey. Letting the turkey spend the night in a bath of salt, sugar and water seemed like overkill to Lee. But Bennett, …
Zed wrote, "Unfortunately, in real life, struggling your hardest is no guarantee of everything coming out all right in the end. The same workplace that's willing to overwork you to injury does not care about …
Two upcoming errands: dropping off a rented video (the controversial and pretty good Fire by Deepa Mehta) and picking up dry-cleaning. According to Leonard, I'm in the 80s.
In Elf, Will Ferrell plays Buddy, a human brought up by elves at the North Pole. So of course he takes offense when he sees a department-store Santa Claus - the impostor! Buddy hisses accusations …
This weekend, Susan took me to the San Francisco Zoo, and then we watched Elf. Evidently I am ten. Especially when visiting a zoo with Susan, who writes about animals and has a degree in …
Ann Marlowe in Salon today decries The Bookseller of Kabul and writes about what's really going on in Afghanistan. But the best epigram I've ever seen about Afghans comes from the first Afghan-American novelist, San …