Up for ninety minutes already, and what have I done? Some file maintenance, some blog reading, some surfing. I am trying to read the BBC news online every day, in order to follow issues in Central Europe. I've actually adjusted to reading the Minneapolis Star-Tribute (it took some doing, after decades of the Boston Globe!) but it doesn't cover international news too thoroughly. In particular, I'm looking for urban issues in Poland that might be a path to a dissertation topic.
Checked irs.gov this morning, and WHEW!!! the automatic extension for 1040s is for four months, not three. So I don't have to spend the day doing my taxes - it can wait until August 14 (which it inevitably will).
Big doings on the Champs Elysees this morning (see, that BBC thing is already paying dividends) - it's the 100th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale, so a token number of British military personnel are marching in the Bastille Day parade. It makes me smile a little, thinking of the sometime gap between political style and substance. Yeah, the British and French are great friends now, eh, but this commemoration of the entente that ultimately paid off in the alliance during WWI commemorates strategic and poltical necessity, not the free and open choice of partners. I suppose it is ever so in Geopolitik.
Posted by otto0114 at July 14, 2004 09:04 AM