My sister always suspects Anne Applebaum (Foreigners correspondent at Slate) of trying to put one over on the reader with oversimplified reasoning. In Deanna Troi's words, "She's hiding something!". Today: Subject: anne applebaum so did …

I'm upgrading my weblog software, so as to make the experience more pleasant for you, my fifteen readers. The asterisk to the left of each entry is a permanent link for that entry only. Fooling …

I'm now halfway through Crime and Punishment and almost halfway through Microserfs. I heard part of an Eminem song on the radio today -- "Without Me," I think -- and quite liked it. Am I …

Oh, and I missed the Seventh Heaven season finale to chat with Jade, which is a trade I'd gladly make again.

A surprisingly good food day. I ate surprisingly good pesto pasta salad at the Caffe-Strada-run Free Speech Movement Cafe on campus. It had pine nuts! And roasted tomato! And then I splurged on a gourmet …

Last night I actually did watch the last X-Files episode. Seven or eight years ago, when I was a freshman and sophomore in high school, my sister and I would watch X-Files on Friday nights …

Inexplicably, I can't find my resume on my hard drive or in my OCF account or in any old email. Since my floppy drive is misbehaving, I'll have to go to campus to use the …

I dreamt an extraordinary dream last night. I met Attorney General John Ashcroft and he interviewed me to find out what a typical student's life is like. (At one point I asked him what he'd …

Hmm, Jeana's thinking of taking Russian! When I did it, I chose Russian on rather a whim. (Japanese and Chinese were too popular; that was part of it.) And now I've been to Russia and …

Thanks to Michelle and Kate and Andy for letting Nandini and me use their scammed VIP tickets yesterday.