One of the things I will regret in my later years is how extremely dull my life is, and how much I enjoy it anyway. For example, one of the more exciting events to happen in my life recently is that the Women's Studies Tentative Schedule of Awesome has been posted. I'm really looking forward to Babes in Bollywood, Gender and Religion, and Money, Sex, and Power.
I've been trying to answer the question How do you make social change? lately, and this has culminated in a small obsession with Naomi Klein. Not only did I rent her 40 minute documentary and fall in love with her, because she's ridiculously cute and I'm attracted to cuddly looking women, I listened to a terrible debate on WNYC called "No Logo vs. Pro Logo" in which Naomi (No Logo) and Sameena Something+otherpeople (Pro-logo) who had not read her book and criticised her for things she never said or addressed in her book talked for about an hour and a half. Considering how argumentative I am, note figure 1.1-1.2 in which I actually made venn diagrams in photoshop to prove something in an argument I was having about whether believing in God makes him exist, one can imagine the emotional rollercoaster this debate put me through. I couldn't even do anything. All I could do was sit there in my chair and listen while I was reduced to a nervous wreck of compost.
Also, for some bizzare reason I've stopped getting my news fix only from Feministing.com for my fair and equal view of the world, and have been hooked on reading the CNN
website lately. This stuff is really really bad. I'm actually reading this shit ... and enjoying
how terrible it is. I call it intellectual rubbernecking. No, resident op-ed journalist Joel Stein (who I had a crush on when I was 13 and he had a column in almost every issue of TIME) DOES
NOT write for cnn.com. One thing I really enjoy is how the editors don't discriminate what articles can go in their "Latest News" column. For example, right now, 4/12 of the latest news columns are as follows: "Miss USA's bruising not from fall, but boos," "Ticker: 'Law & Order' star primes W.H. pump," "Celeb DUI docket: Lohan, Hilton, Richie, Rhymes Video," and my favorite: "Britney Spears: 'I truly hit rock bottom.'"
Friday was the first day of class, and I've discovered that on Mondays and Wednesdays I have a lovely (read: annoying) break between classes which goes from 11AM-2PM. Today is day one, I've finished my french homework, and I still have two and a half hours to go.
Ryan and I spent winter break together, slowly going bonkers from being together all the time. Our Winter Break Experiences peaked in the first few days of break when we went to LA to see Rothko and Magritte. The Rothko exhibit at the Pacific Design Center was a no-frills affair that exposed the amazing emotional experience that is looking at a Rothko (if you're into that kind of thing). The Magritte exhibit at LACMA was unbelievable, and I think I was captivated the whole time. I thought this billboard was really cool.
We tried to go to OCMA but they were closed.
We've recently become obsessed with eating raspberries and blackberries from a yellow bowl, which is "out of control delicious." We laughed at this phrase maniacally after we read it on a citysearch review and I am planning on using it often. We also made french toast together a few times, experimenting with different breads.
I'm going to get a Women's studies minor.
