duck-shaped pain

Sunday is Newspaper Reading Day. I get very upset if I am somehow kept from reading at least two newspapers every Sunday. Today, as I was reading throught them, I noticed that I always read them in a certain order, and if this doesn't happen, it just feels wrong. I'm pretty flexible everywhere else -- I have no idea why this so important.

The Daily Sentinel must be read in this order:

• Crappy ad inserts

• the Mervyn's ad insert

• the Target ad insert

• The front page and first section

• Business section

• Local news/Opinion section

• Featues/Classified section

• (optional) Sports section and Parade

The Sunday Rocky Mountain News is read this way:

• News section (local and national)

• Commentary

• Books

• Sports

• Sunday Spotlight

• the Style section (because it's stuck in the previous section)

• Home Front

• Comics

• Wall Street West

• (optional) Travel, Careers, ad crap

On Sundays when I am feeling very flush in both time and money, I add the Sunday New York Times to the mix. This actually might be the most strict regimen of all:

• Front page & first section

• Sports Sunday

• Money and Business (first section only)

• Arts and Leisure

• And, in the interest of saving the best for last, then comes:

  • Week in Review

  • Book Review

  • Magazine. This one is always last. If I read ti before that, I always feel like I'm cheating myself for some reason.

  
  
  

Wasn't that insightful? Looking over it, the only interesting part is that the thing I most look forward to in the local paper is the Target ad. I don't know what that means, since I don't even go there very often.