daily life

Where you can be too obsessed with feminism? This issue came up recently with my boyfriend when he said that while he admires my views, that I've gotten too into it and that it's taken over my life.

By that he means- I currently read books about women's issues, most of the books I'm reading right now are indeed about them. This is because I feel that I need to keep up, and read all the feminist "classics" in order to understand them, the history of the movement, and references to such books- The Feminine Mystique, The Vagina Monologues, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, The Beauty Myth, those books. But it's not ALL I read- it's just something I feel needs focus at this time.

Today I woke up, and it was around 10 I beleive.

Got into some rather tense discussions with my grandmother. We have to repeat the same arguments at least twice if it wasn't the answer she wanted. She wanted me to move out a day early, which wasn't possible but I was supposed to have these psychic revelations about her making plans after knowing the day I was moving three weeks in advance. I'd just move by myself...if I could fit the boxes in my car. My car is the size of a jellybean - with only one operable door. Grandpa just kind of shook his head.

Went into work, ate something on the cheap and tried to talk to my coworker/new landlordlady while she was running around to work this all out. Decided that it was just going to have to wait until tommorow no matter how crazy my grandmother was going to get about me moving on the day I said I would.

What's a day in the life of a young feminist like, from start to finish? Not a special day, not a day your autobiographer will write about, just a plain old, average day.

Take notes on a day in your life, or reflect on a day at day's end. You can make a checklist that goes hour to hour, you can be more creative and spin a line or two of prose for each hour that passes. You can tell us all the things your body does, and/or all the places your head and heart go. You can pick a day that started like any other, but brought you to an unexpected place: a morning that begins, for instance, with walking the dog, checking email and packing a lunch can culminate with the loss of a friend, or with something happening in your neighborhood that makes the morning's seemingly dull activities take on new meaning.