Thursday
Sumana (back from St. Petersburg) visited. Yay!
Attributed by her to Leonard Richardson:
We should be careful if we visit Dmitry Sklyarov. They might think we're planning to bake him a cake with an encrypted file inside.
Sumana and to some extent Vadim and Alex are apparently teaching me to read Cyrillic phonetically. If that happens, I'll know four alphabets.
At Eric's wedding, Vanessa (the bridesmaid with whom I was paired) told me that her brother was once asked to "write out his name phonetically" for some event like a graduation where it would be read aloud. Of course, being a linguist, he wrote it in IPA...
