1/6 Watched Biden’s speech at Valley Forge. Not once, actually, but twice: in the evening shortly after he gave it, and then again in the middle of the night in my usual cannot-sleep period. Nobody else here would do that, not J, not her brother. I feel I have a naive kind of sincerity to myself which makes me watch and care for something like this, very different from just about anybody I know. But it turns out that not too long ago, J would also watch, for example, a State of the Union, but not anymore, she feels too disillusioned now, she says.