http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/07/clintons_last_hurrah.html?hpid=topnews

I loved her speech. What she said made me think to another incredible woman and the end of one of her best books, " A room of one's own". I wonder if one day there'll be a woman who will have the possibility to say that there is no more glass ceiling to shatter. I hope so. One day.

"But I mantain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity , is worth while "

Tags: hillary, virginia woolf
Current Location: Milan
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Passing afternoon

Six months ago when I read that the movie of Sex and the city was coming out at the end of May I decided that, to properly maintain the title of series-addicted I needed to watch Sex and the city. Before January I had watched one or two episodes of the entire series. In three months I watched it all. All the episodes many and many times. I fell in love hard and fast with Sex and the city and it has been immediately put on the list of my favorite series.

That said, I went to see the movie this afternoon. I did hear bad comments about the movie but I hadn't read any review because I wanted to form my own judgment. Now I have seen it and all I can say is that I would have loved it had I not seen the series.
I spent the first hour trying to accept the Italian voices. I saw two or three episodes in Italian years ago and I have seen 150 or so episodes in English in the last months. So wrong voices were the first big obstacle. Once I got used to those voices I actually started watching the movie. The movie is not bad, per se. It's funny at times and I didn't feel the two hours and a half but please don't call it Sex and the city. They ruined Miranda, my favorite character. She was just a shade of the cynical, sarcastic lawyer she was. Sure, she grew up, got married, adapted to her all life in Brooklyn. She changed but I want the old Miranda back. Plus, a crucial part of the series was Carrie's column. Carrie, the book writer is not as much fun and she doesn't have the same spark. Charlotte apparently got all she wanted and still I felt she was not Charlotte anymore. Samantha was quite in character but she lived in LA and I find it pretty improbable that she flew back to NY every five seconds.
Most of all I missed their conversations as they were on the show. It's not just the sex talk missing. There's something more. Their remarks weren't witty and sarcastic as they used to be and that puts a terrible strain on the movie.
I loved, though, the final scene because it was about them, the four New York women that made the show great as it was.

On a more random note, during the break I heard two men talking. One of them said - a little SPOILERISH if you haven't seen the movie-
" Carrie and Big are going to get together but a little female dignity from her wouldn't be bad"

My thought was Thank God some of the members of the male species still possess something that resembles a brain.

I almost forgot. Could the writer please explain to me why, between all the Jewish names, he chose Rose as a name for Charlotte's baby ? ROSE, just like the horse ( Oops, I wanted to say nurse) that was with Derek until the season finale. PUAH !!!!!

Tags: movies, series
Current Location: Milan
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Bryn Christopher- The Quest

After avoiding every possible contact with Italian reality (Avoiding includes avoiding news, sites, refusing to get the free papers, sit far from any person who has a paper, avoiding any shop that has a radio playing), today I had to face reality. While I was eating, the unsuspected journalist of the sport news said " The mayor Alemanno gave his approval to the idea of the new stadium.....". Needless to say, I turned off the TV but it was too late.
Alemanno is the new mayor of Rome. There, I said it. Two days and I am still not able to process the news.

Current Location: Milan
Current Mood: apathetic

Rome means a lot to me. Rome is one of my biggest passions. Rome is about to be governed by an incompetent person who has no concrete projects for Rome and that certainly won't do anything for its tourism. I need to get back to 2006 when I still foresaw a future for Italy. Now there is just destruction waiting for me and all the Italians. Especially for Romans.

Way to ruin my happy bubble.

Tags: rome
Current Location: Milan
Current Mood: crappy

Berlusconi won and that's beyond bad. There is the concrete possibility that Alemanno will be the next mayor of Rome and that's a disaster. I just read that Calderoli is going to be vice-premier and that is a CATASTROPHE.

I refuse to be called Italian until 2013.

Tags: politics
Current Mood: aggravated

"The Economist" journalists say Italians should vote for Walter Veltroni.Openly. If only they could find a way to explain to ignorant and elder people, that make the most of the population, that you can't vote for a politician just because he is funny or because he makes unrealistic promises they would be my eternal heroes.

Tags: accounting, economist, politics
Current Mood: calm

I'm a woman who likes football. No, let me rephrase that. I'm a woman who loves football. Yesterday I discovered I have been missing the adrenaline running through my veins during a match. My passions should stop asking overbearingly to be pursued. I don't have time for all of them.

Tags: accounting, inter
Current Mood: calm

Today I went to a conference about the stereotypes of women in Italy. I enjoyed it, a lot. The problem touches me deeply and I would really like to change things, to do something to improve the situation. It's sad to hear all those successful women saying that they're still not treated like men. Paola Cortellesi said that while preparing her own show, in assembling, technicians kept waiting for the approval of her co-author, a person she chose, a man. What about instead a researcher at Censis who said that there weren't money enough to reprint a book with a research about how women are represented in entertainment, fictions and advertising ? I couldn't stay for all the conference because it clashed with my lessons. I would have loved to do that though. Lately I hadn't been thinking about this issue and now it's back in my thoughts. I'll keep it there, maybe for thesis time.

On other news, I finally understood what financial wedge means. For many of my classmates this term was normal, for me it was a myth and so now I feel all satisfied about my little discovery.
I discovered also some cool Excel functions. Silly things, I know.I'm still a child inside.

My soundtrack right now is "Porta a porta". Bertinotti is saying that you have to be either with the workers or with managers. I want to bang my head against a wall.

Tags: politics, women
Current Mood: content
Current Music: TV

I just heard the new song that supports Silvio Berlusconi. It's called " Menomale che Silvio c'è" which more or less means " Luckily, there is Silvio". It's one of the most ridiculous songs I have ever heard and its lyrics is ......I can't really describe it. I want to see if his supporters are going to sing this song. I think it's way too humiliating but you never know.

Anyhow, I would like to add my voice to the choir in singing " Menomale che Silvio c'è ". Otherwise Italian politics could actually start to become a serious matter. We certainly don't want that.

Tags: politics
Current Location: Milan
Current Mood: amused

So, it's very likely that Obama will win the Democratic nomination in the U.S which makes me extremely sad. On the bright side, though, Casini and UDC won't go to the elections with Berlusconi and this means that his triumph isn't as sure as before. Great news.

So how should I feel ? Sad or Happy ?

Tags: access
Current Location: Milan
Current Mood: confused