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.'"
