I had a rather eventful evening. I practiced my handball with Robin (not the same Robin with whom I studied history a week ago, for the midterm on which I got a lower score than …

Rich Fromm, a.k.a. The Guy I Met on BART, on avocadolounge.org: well, "we" is really just my house. which also happens to have a bar.

I'm catching up on e-mail while listening to this terrific CD of mp3'd music that Steve gave me. That is, he gave me the media, the CD itself. Whether he gave me the music...well, I …

Joke that Professor Filippenko read in lecture:Please stop jumping up and down on my wooden board. I'm trying to keep my Planck constant.

I went to another of Alexei Filippenko's Astronomy 10 lectures today. I've heard terrific praise of him all the years I've been at Cal. And it's quite true. If my Computer Science 3 professor had …

I skipped handball and studied for my Russian test. I might have even done well on it. Won't know for a week. I also turned in my long-delayed sochinenie (essay), which I wrote on the …

Today was the first time in ages that I've started and finished a book in the same day. Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog amused me and certainly pulled me along. She surprised …

Last night I prepared a salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, olives, black beans, and Annie's Tuscan salad dressing. I also ate Near East garlic and herb rice pilaf. This was the best meal I've had …

The Man Who Wasn't There. I'd seen three other Coen Brothers movies (Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Big Lebowski). Now that I've seen four, I can be pretty sure that I like …

Scary look-alikes: I have an uncle who looks a heck of a lot like Saddam Hussein. I just saw my landlord downstairs, and yet again confirmed that he looks a heck of a lot like …