(Before anything else, I would like to state for the record: I got through an ENTIRE DAY of Stalin-and-Marshall-Plan reading and have yet to make an "In Soviet Russia..." joke! Go me!)I have this tendency to think of myself as lazy. This is because I am lazy. My idea of a perfect day involves sleeping, reading, writing and spending hours in the bath. (Still don't have bathtub. Still irrationally furious about this fact.) But, you know, I can step up to the plate, to borrow a metaphor, and am not... read more