I feel bad about railing on that girl last week. Yesterday she wasn't sitting at my table, but seemed to be acting normally. So she's probably not crazy, she was probably just having a bad day, and I was probably a little high strung myself (though I know that's hard to imagine.)

Anyway, the exciting news that you probably already know, but if not: The Economist now has the same system as Salon, where you can get a free day pass by watching an ad! Much more convenient than accessing it through university databases!

One interesting story in The Economist is on the economics of happiness, which looks at the Eastern European countries and goes beyond the wealth-happiness correlation. Interestingly: "Individually, the biggest winners are the well-educated, the self-employed and women. These three categories, especially when combined, show soaring happiness scores." I'm scoring two out of three so far!

And the goat industry is booming! Especially interesting: "Texas has the most goat farms in America, thanks to its dry climate. But Ray Bowman of the Kentucky Goat Producers Association reckons that goat numbers in his state have risen by four- or fivefold in the past three years. In places such as Kentucky and Tennessee, small farmers are using government money to replace unhealthy tobacco with healthy goats."