-It's not so much that I thought, "this is a typical day in Baghdad," in so many words. It was more like, I thought of the scope of this, versus other things. We've just read an article by a guy named Cass Sunstein on how people misinterpret risks to the point where the whole D.C. area was afraid of a sniper who killed 10 people, but millions upon millions of Americans won't modify their diets to avoid something that has an exponentially higher likelihood of killing them: heart disease. I would never want to minimize people's deaths, and I was sad when the brother of one of the victims talked on the Today Show. At the same time, the scope of this tragedy is small, comparatively.

-I only read a few pages of one play. It was so poorly written, I gave up and read the end.

-Re: question number one- I really didn't modify my behavior too much. I usually refresh internet news sites, so that was nothing unusual. :)