I feel as if I don't know enough.

There was a time where I felt better educated. A couple of times. From 1994 to about 1996, I was listening to NPR's Morning Edition every morning, and other news programs throughout the day on other stations. (For some reason, I've never been much on All Things Considered. I was reading The New Yorker and either Time or Newsweek cover to cover. I read a few books. I even watched the evening news fairly frequently.

Things are different now. A couple of reasons:

1) I'm sleeping as late as I can in the mornings (because Danny comes in and snuggles during the night, and I don't particularly want to leave), so I don't have time to listen to the radio.
2) During my commute, I'm listening to CDs.
3) I don't have a radio here at the office, and they've asked that we not listen via Internet. Apparently it's hard to pick up FM stations inside the building anyway.
4) I am getting home around 6:00 three nights a week, but the network news in Illinois airs at 5:30. I can't remember the last time I watched a broadcast.
5) I've thrown Entertainment Weekly into the mix, which takes up too much of my brain with no results. Honestly, why should we care about Britney and her current issues?
6) The internet also takes up a lot of my time, and I'm breezing through stories without keeping much in my head.
7) Danny takes up more of my time.

What I need to do to fix things:

1) Go out during lunch and buy an AM/FM radio for the office. Preferably with a cassette deck (sounds ridiculous, but there are a lot of albums I have on cassette and nowhere else).
2) I've subscribed to Atlantic Monthly, and will read Time, The New Yorker, New York, and Atlantic in the office. (I switched back from Newsweek to Time, partially because we got a good deal, partially because I feel like Time has gotten more serious and is starting to cover international news more.
3) I will read books at home. One sports book, one non-fiction history book, one novel, one self-improvement book a month.
4) I will wake up at 5:40 every morning, and not roll over and go back to sleep.
5) I will listen to Morning Edition again on the way in, and find something I like on the way back. (This may be hard -- I've never liked the all-news WBBM here in Chicago very much, and I'm up and down on WGN's Steve Cochran. It may be All Things Considered by default. WLS is too conservative, WIND is worse, and despite my liberal views, I've never really warmed up to Air America either.
6) I will try to watch the news in bed at nine or ten P.M., or listen to Milt Rosenberg on WGN.
7) Danny still comes first, no matter what.

There's no excuse for ignorance, and there's no excuse for stupidity. (Not that I'm stupid, but still...)