Mmm yes nervous about the first day of my internship tomorrow, trying to distract myself by watching Sex and the City: The True Hollywood Story. So far there hasn't been much that I don't already know. Except for SJP's dating life, the cast's pre-SATC time is quite boring. I want to hear more about the cast tension, even though that's probably predictable--Kim got too much attention blah blah blah. Can you imagine dating both Robert Downey Jr. and JFK Jr.? I actually think Downey's sexier, even with the coke problem. Downey's such a talented actor that I think it's ok if he breaks a few silly drug laws ;).

While the John Kerry biography I'm reading is entertaining, the writing blows, and I realized I needed to read something better. Ta da, Joan Didion's White Album, which has some great entertaining bits criticizing feminism in the essay "The Women's Movement":

"The idea that fiction has certain irreducible ambiguities seemed never to occur to these women, nor should it have, for ficion is in most ways hostile to ideology...They purged and regrouped and purged again, worried out one another's errors and deviations, the 'elitism' here, the 'careerism' there. It would have been merely sententious to call some of their thinking Stalinist: of course it was. It would have been pointless even to speak of whether one considered these women 'right' or 'wrong,' meaningless to dwell upon the obvious, upon the coarsening of moral imagination to which such social idealism so often leads. To beliee in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension. Ask anyone commited to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to nevermind the angels, tell me who controls the production of the pins."

I am a feminist, but I find a lot of the feminist rhetoric problematic, especially a lot of the sexual harassment stuff and just about everything that seems to imply that women are victims; even if it's true, I think that mentality is ultimately self-defeating, be aware and then try to overcome it.

I've decided our political system might be fundamentally flawed due to its lack of pockets for artsy communities. Every city needs a section where everyone who lives there is not a waitress, etc, but an artiste and/or gay/bisexual. I wrote something artsy in my journal about this, but I'll spare others.

Ahhh I'm going to be a D.C. intern. Crazy!