Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
A few weeks ago, another Indian-American and I were talking and agreed on one benefit of that particular childhood: if your parents are well-off enough to drag you to India & back a few times, …
Leonard and I got to hang out with Jed Hartman, an editor of Strange Horizons, this afternoon! We talked about scifi and editing and his magazine and our anthology. Then he left, then Aaditya came …
Highlights of my recent round trip between NYC and Washington, D.C.: Sitting next to a fresh-from-college geekish Indian-American woman, chatting pleasantly for hours, reassuring her that she isn't alone in finding most Indian-American males unattractive, …
A few models I've happened upon recently: No Big Deal: I visited Nandini. Her friend, a landscape architect, is helping her do up her apartment. We talked over breakfast. Susan's dad has always been a …
Just ordered a business card refill from the same San Francisco copy shop that did my cards when I lived there.
What we are now learning about the devastation in the Gulf combines with a growing desire, borne of my working life, to become a manager, a good one.
Things to remember about the several hours after that last hope: Pizza, booze, CNN, increasingly grim jokes. I couldn't believe that Coburn won, Bunning won, that the GOP would be consolidating its control of the …
Things to remember about Election Day, November second, 2004: Going to sleep at 1:30 the morning of, crying and praying. I can't tell where the cold draft in my room is coming from, and it …
On Sunday I had my first bike accident. I didn't brake in time and skidded to a fall. Just a little scrape, no blood, but still embarrassing. I still really like biking, but I should …
The main news is that I made a big mistake and I'm paying for it. I double-counted a class, thinking it could fulfill two requirements, but it didn't, so now I'm taking a summer school …