Archive for 'the body'
Primary complaint: complains too much
I’m in a mid-summer fit of feeling sorry for myself. They are all quite tangled, the complaints I have, and the situations are real–quite unlike the ones my mother complains about, which are in her head.
Note to self: you deal much better with the acute than the chronic. This may say things about whether you [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2008 under the body.
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Un año de soledad
He estado leyendo los cuentos de Borges, pero en ingles. Me asusté un poco hace tiempo, queriendo leer 100 años de soledad. El vocabulario es muy…especializada. Márquez es muy especial. Hay palabras las cuales no me las se ni en ingles ni en español. Es como leer Moby Dick sín saber nada del mar. Mejor [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under literature, the body.
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Having breasts=invitation to ogle?
Memorial Day weekend. What can I say? I drove too much, which caused some problems walking for a few days, but the rest ultimately did me good. Back in the cube farm now; somehow, I am supposed to fit some 15 hours of meetings into this 32-hour work week and still get things done. This [...]
Posted: May 29th, 2008 under films, living, sexism, the body.
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Meh. Why can’t I be a cyborg?
Sometimes, having a living, breathing body sucks. Sometimes it sucks for a long time. This shouldn’t happen, and especially to someone young and easily freaked out like me.
All that to say that I’ve had severe pain these last few weeks, pain like I had before starting physical therapy after the botched surgery a year and [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2008 under the body.
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Reflections, Thelonious Monk
Since I am working from home today, I seized the opportunity to do some music rating in iTunes. A few months ago, I started an emusic subscription, and since then, I’ve been adding a lot of music to my library, most of which I have not had a chance to listen to. Perhaps it’s just [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2008 under living, the body, women's health.
Comments: 4
Junk media coverage of body size: at what cost?
From MSNBC: Junk-food dieters fake their way to skinny: Diet soda, sugar-free gum keep calories down, but at what cost?
The cost of being “Pringle thin” is apparently limited to nutritional impact, and–horrors–the fact that “trailer” food may contain hidden calories that make people fatter! Jesus, what about the cost of a culture that makes everything [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2008 under the body, women's health.
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Bodies and being
I’ve recently read Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being for the first time. There’s much to notice, and the pages of the book are now filled with marginal commentary, but what has been on my mind most is Tereza’s relationship to her body, her work to see her “I” in her physical being. In [...]
Posted: March 11th, 2008 under living, the body.
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