oh my...

Aug. 7th, 2007 09:28 am
arguchik: (Default)
here's my "work" horoscope for today:

Contentment fills you up like cream inside a doughnut, making you squishy with easy friendliness. Every moment of work feels like an easy eternity, and contemplation and meditation were never so easy.

uhhhhh.....that gives "work friendly" a whole new meaning.
well, it's good advice anyway. but first, a brief frame: i've been having this little nagging feeling in my right lower abdomen lately. for about a week, i guess. naturally i'm worried about it. it's about where my appendix used to be, where my right ovary still is. i've read that it takes about a year for the abdominal muscles to completely heal following surgery, so it could be that. my colon has surgical staples in it where they removed my appendix, so it could be that. i'm on my period, so it might just be lopsided cramps. i've been increasing my running mileage lately, so i might just have irritated either the muscles around my incision or the surgical staples in my colon. or...could be a bad sign of something more serious starting (though PMP usually doesn't produce any symptoms).

enter today's horoscope:
Don't worry that a past health issue is popping up again. Chances are, this physical change you're feeling is merely a manifestation of some troubling issues you've been tossing around inside your head. Get out and be active, and you will be able to exercise some of these worries away. It's a win-win proposition. Socializing while you exercise is easier than ever, so get with your friends and enjoy a game of basketball, play some tennis or simply take a nice long walk.

ok. it's a buncha bunk, i know, but it's good enough for me. and it's right: i've been tossing around a LOT of troubling issues lately. and like i said...it's good advice.

dude...

Apr. 9th, 2007 06:05 pm
arguchik: (borg queen)
i'm teaching michel foucault's "panopticism" right now. today was the first day of class discussion about it, actually. here's my horoscope for today:

They say that children need discipline in order to be happy and healthy -- and grownups need rules in their lives, too! You won't be able to look to anyone else for the guidelines or the positive reinforcement you're looking for right now -- you will have to give yourself the discipline you need. You know what the right choice is, so force yourself to make it. If you let yourself off the hook this time, you will probably regret it (or at least feel guilty for a long time).

for those of you who have read foucault's essay, 'nuff said. weird coincidence, huh? for those of you who haven't, it's about the rise of the disciplinary society, in which members discipline themselves. the essay marks a historical shift from an era in which the sovereign did a lot of sword-rattling and public punishment in order to establish and maintain order, to an era in which surveillance by diffuse state apparatuses (like the police or the school or the hospital, all modeled after jeremy bentham's panopticon plan for the ideal prison) makes everyone internalize "proper conduct" and act as if they are being watched at all times, thus order seems to establish and maintain itself (though actually individualized subjects are producing and maintaining order).

jeeeeeeeez........

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