Information Addict

An example of part of the reason why I get news-overwhelmed, completely separate from what is going on in my personal life. I'd say each has at least equal time and I can never finish anything substantive that I want to post before it gets pushed aside by more current issues, personal or otherwise. It kind of drives me nuts and makes me wish I could peel apart and be two people. This is a screen shot of just the past few front page headlines from one independent semi-regular news source (OneWorld). I read about three daily, along with UK news sources and HuffPost (although not as much anymore), on top of the 10 blogs or so I read regularly, which may not seem like a lot to most, but it is to me. I'm also reading several books, and trying to write (fiction and nonfiction), while keeping affairs in order and taking care of my girl, so that's part of it, too. I truly appreciate those that can hack it, 'cause I feel like I can't about 60% of the time. Aside from Chris in Paris at Americablog, these stories are hardly repeated in our press or the blogs I read. All of these stories deserve their own well thought-out post/referral, but I'm too scatterbrained to churn anything out quickly enough with any confidence (as I found today, I probably shouldn't). It doesn't help that my right eye is getting progressively worse, so it's more of a strain for me to read. I guess I should probably find out what the fucking black dot is in the middle of my eye actually is, since it's almost doubled in size over the past year. It's fucking annoying and it's making the rest of the eye blurry.
Anyway, sorry, will try to do better.

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