to read later

After Success, Problems for Microfinancing in Mexico

Unemployment Rate Rises After 80,000 Jobs Cut - ya don't say...

Clinton Income Topped $109 Million - if only because one of the sub-headings on the main page leads to an article called Clinton Calls for Cabinet Post on Poverty

Meet the Oboptimists - um. I have the feeling this deserves a lot of attention, but I'm going to refrain from reading it so I can get working on my thesis.

Stay in it to Win it - do we see a trend with these articles I'm marking for later?...

There Were Orders to Follow

Art With Baggage in Tow

Old Ways, New Pains for Farms in Poland

And yes, I usually do read this much of the paper. I can't get enough of it lately. It satisfies my increasingly short attention span. I thought of taking a book on the subway today and decided that what I really wanted was a magazine (I took a book anyway, but still). I think it has to do with the fact that I am putting so much energy into this one giant thing that is my thesis that I can't concentrate on anything else for more than a few minutes (or seconds) at a time.

Yesterday I read Some Good News on Food Prices, and the day before I spent a bunch of time catching up on the Dot Earth blog, which I just love.

And now I am thoroughly caffeinated and am going to force myself to spend the next 60 minutes cutting and pasting because I think when it comes down to it, I really have most of what I need for this rewrite and am just getting frustrated because I'm too close to the text, which is not helped by the fact that I've made the text size bigger in order not to hurt my eyes, so I'm having trouble viewing the big picture, as it were. That makes sense to me, but I'm not sure if I've effectively translated it from abstract thought to abstract language... Anyway. Yeah.