Now that the gainful employment is not so much what you would call full-time -- if you're unfamiliar, there was this southern Governor who we thought might run for president but we was wrong -- I've been focusing some on my side project, Darfur Watch. Dafur Watch has evolved from a media monitoring and aggregation project that I started after the Abuja peace agreement in May into just a regular old blog focused on the situation in Western Sudan. What I'm trying to do there is the sort of thick-description, holistic writing that I aim to do more broadly soon -- though this effort is hampered a bit by the fact that I haven't been to Darfur and don't see myself getting a chance to go anytime soon. Still, hope you'll check it out.

