Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
My roommate's alarm clock has gone off and is playing Belle and Sebastian's fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant. Quite agreeable. Yesterday was a strange and uncomfortable day in some respects. In …
It's not often that I wonder, "How should I address this professor? Would he rather I use his title, his title and last name, or his first name?" and then read a book by him …
Even though Bad Subjects is usually full of grad-student wankery, I still read it. Case in point: it's fun to skim such a perfect embodiment of the genre, especially when it's queer theory being applied …
At the bus stop near my house, I've noticed some unusual litter in the gutter. Among the dust and cigarette butts lie about ten used teabags. My theory: it used to be, very recently, that …
Pre-Logic banter just gets wackier and wackier. To the tune of "The Farmer and the Cowman": Oh, the p and the not-p should be friends Oh, the p and the not-p should be friends One …
I did four loads of laundry last night and now virtually all of my clothes are clean for the first time since I moved. I don't have drawers anymore; all my clothing is viewable at …
McWhorter quote of the day: "Okay, as long as you don't be gettin' all prescriptive."
Today I conversed with John McWhorter, my Linguistics professor. I surprise him, it seems, since I use "whom" and enjoy the odd bit of Gershwin. He surprised me by not knowing that online journals even …
Last night Anirvan came over and I discovered that Anirvan : me :: me two years ago : Seth two years ago. Anirvan reads this journal "religiously" (hi, Anirvan!), and he has no weblog at …