Had a good conversation with Hannah yesterday, who's a director at CARE, the big NGO. She said I can knock off all the doom & gloom about the food crisis - and she should know.
There is a crisis in food prices right now but she said that was almost entirely because of energy costs being passed through the economy, and there's an acute supply shortage because of the biofuels policy. It's not, as I had feared, a leading indicator of a capacity crisis compared to world population & world consumption. We still have a little ways to go yet before we run into a global capacity shortage. So fair enough, I'll drop the Cassandra act for now.
Then she told me that she, Maggie & Jeannette from the Chicago scene were going to run out to a local industrial club and goth out for the night.
Grr... So I was moved to wander out in the night to Noc Noc, a local industrial place here in Seattle that I found out about at the Thrill Kill show. It was fun - typical goth club in that everyone knew each other - but people were friendly and the music was good, and I danced my tail off for four hours. A charitable use of a Saturday night.
Spent today in mellow-mode, catching up on mail, cooking & prepping for work tomorrow. Life is good.