I am trying to so hard not to read the news

But I failed.

Australia Puts Its Refugee Problem on a Remote Island, Behind Razor Wire. New York Times, 5 November 2009

"The arrival of illegal boats filled with Asians evokes a primordial fear here, one that has been instilled over past decades of anti-Asian immigration policies."

(The NYT errs here, of course: seeking refuge in Australia is 100% legal.)

Psychological discovery

When I write, I am not in pain.

When I am not writing, I am worrying about washing up cleaning house garden real estate agents too many books not enough reading getting to the gym what's for dinner now what's wrong with me I never meditate travel shopping laundry and why I always feel that, no matter what I'm doing, I'm cheating and failing and malingering and slacking because there is something else I'm supposed to be doing.

Which I am. This. *typing noises*