The New York Times

Reading the New York Times online is a little difficult for me because I don't really want to do it. It's also hard to create a habit of something that you've never done before. First of all, the font gives me a headache. It reminds me of some old grandpa reading the newspaper with his cigar. The layout is difficult to read. I feel like I could do a one hundred million times better job at creating the layout, even if they do that so that it still "looks like a newspaper" or whatever. I find myself only usually looking at the US version because the World version is too much for me to handle. Out of those stories, I only read the ones that directly relate to my life. Such examples are of the birth control coverage story, the one about how Madonna's stalker broke out of the crazy hospital he was in, an article about accommodating pregnant women at work, and the one about how women's roles in the military are changing. Haha looking at that list... did I just become a feminist? Hahah yes, maybe.
Reading the paper New York Times (and the NYT magazine) is much more enjoyable because I get to do it eating my mom's chocolate chip pancakes on a lazy Sunday morning.

Hmmm... the question "What might you have missed in the process" is an interesting question that I ask myself a lot, but never in the context of all of the NYT articles that I don't read. I haven't missed anything. The world is still turning, I'm still alive, there's good people and bad people, and good things and bad things happening everyday. Maybe I don't know about all of them, but I do know about the things in my life that I'm deeply engrained in.

Even the articles that I do read, they do not change my "daily habits, readings, writing, work, thoughts, attitudes, or interactions" anymore than reading Calvin and Hobbes or having a conversation with someone or watching Law and Order or doing my homework does. I do not consider myself more "worldly" or intelligent after reading the NYT. I find myself looking for something to do that I actually have in interest in doing.