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I've started a new initiative to wake up earlier everyday. Today I had a little help by a 5 am earthquake, but I had been meaning to do this for a while now. Waking up at 8:30 for work at 9:30 wastes half the day, since it gets light around 4:30-5:00. By the time I get off work, it is dark and all the stores are closed and there is not much to do. (of course the stores are closed at 5 am too, but it just feels like I am doing more.

What did I get done today because I woke up early? Poor Guri, I finally put caging around her house. She was getting too crazy and eating too many of my books, photos, cds, not to mention the walls. She doesn't seem any too happy about it either... and I give her two days before she finds a way to escape anyway.

There was a really great interview on Fresh Air Thursday.

Journalist Scott Anderson.He traveled with a platoon of elite Israeli commandos into the West Bank and wrote about it in the article "An Impossible Occupation" which was the cover story of last Sunday's New York Times Magazine.

I only regret that no one looks at this site, and no one will find this link. The story was also in the New York Times Magazine this week, but I don't know anyone who reads that. It really gives a much different view into what is happening and what it is like there than Nightline, 20/20, and I'm sure CNN do. He talks of how he visited the father of a 16 year old suicide bomber, talks about taking over a Palestinian family's house with the Israeli army to be used as a base, and how they clean it and vacuum it before they return it to the family. If you only listen to one of the Fresh Air interviews I have recommended, make it this one.

Also on the NPR website they have set up a special section that has audio and transcripts of all their reports relating the middle east.

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