Monday, January 28, 2013

Horoscope- 1/28/2013

Tonight, you will go to bed wishing you had finished that film instead of finishing your necessary work.  Don't worry- you can always watch a film again and with newly excited pupils.  They will dilate when you grow excited.  Cinema works that way.

1/27/2013 horoscope

You will regret sleeping in late.

Horoscope- 1/26/2013

You will regret getting up early.

Horoscope- 1/25/2013

You will show severe lack of character today.  Just admit you don't like Thai food and get on with it!

Horoscope- 1/24/2013

If only these horoscopes occurred before the actual day, I could warn you that your coffee maker will break, leaking brown ooze all over your counter.  A sleepless night with the following caffeine deprivation will lead to an exhaustion only healed through drink.  Ignore the mixers, and shoot 'til you sleep.

Horoscope- 1/23/2013

You are probably destroying your liver and kidneys.  Everyday brings you exponentially closer to death.  Find solace in the reality that the cyborg revolution is coming.  The cogs will keep you going 'til they melt in our inevitable collision with the sun.

Horoscope- 1/22/2013

Don't overthink it.  Self-medicate ad nauseum.  ¡Illegitimi non carborundum!

Horoscope- 1/21/2013

You will stand your ground today.  Allow the panic to overtake you then let it go.  Exhale.  Gumption is a rare asset in this day and age.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Sunday horoscope

Study in advance, for not everyone has your sense of whimsy and anarchy.  Let the minor irritation go.

Saturday horoscope

Today, you are sick. Revel in the excuse to be lazy.  Read and sleep and drink tea.

Friday Horoscope

Don't worry about all of the things you need to do today- you will miss them all.  Try to be independent- you need some time alone, but you likely will not get it.

Thursday horoscope

You will begin a terrible movie.  You'll feel compelled to finish it- ignore this impulse! It does not get better.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Post-day horoscope

You will be spiritually lifted today.  Follow through on your responsibilities and you will end the evening with serenity.  You will additionally receive good news today, but don't count your eggs before they catch.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Casual Racism

I know, it isn't good to vent in a public venue, so I'll be as obscure as possible with my references.

I just want to say that the coup d'etat in Chile is an essential event in my family history.  It is not interchangeable with any other event.  The coup has a place in my personal and in world history.

If you don't know about the coup, educate yourself.

Don't expect me to understand your personal history if you don't understand mine.  The next time you laugh at me for ignorance on Anglophone history, I'm going to metaphorically smack you upside the head.

Tragedies across the world are not interchangeable.

Just suck it up and recognize you are privileged.  And stop being antagonistically defensive against me for having many "protected class status[es]."  I'd be happy to change shoes with you any day of the week.

And just to be a dick, I'm going to make you read the most awkward as hell writings the rest of the quarter.

And if you say anything, I'll just say you have no idea what it's like.

By the by, this is what it looks like when I'm angry.  It doesn't happen often.  I'm usually just sad.  But today I am just really angry.

Because nobody should have to endure casual racism.

And I really felt like I didn't belong today.  And went to the bathroom to cry and wouldn't let myself because I knew this was something I needed to be angry about.

So now I am still angry but mostly homesick for my mom, who gets it.

Post-day horoscope

Today your soul will be leeched from you via casual racism.  Don't worry, it will come back.  Don't forget, the more coffee you drink, the more water you will need to drink to avoid foot cramps.

January 14- horoscope

Oh my little ant, you will act the grasshopper today and pay for your hopping about with loss of sleep.  Work harder at selfishness for you have been moronic in your compassion of late.

January 13- horoscope

Today is full of pain. Liquor will not help but you'll think it will and ignore advice.  Try to avoid the shadow of bitterness sweeping in.

January 12- horoscope

Tody is about eating and spending! Revel in you hedonsism, and don't worry too much about mixing your new meds with alcohol.  You will not die.

January 11 horoscope

Your friend will have mechanical difficulties, resulting in much loss of sleep.  Don't worry, for peace of mind is best preserved via force of will.  You will watch the Ocean's 11 sequels but not of your free will.  Domination takes many forms.

Catching up

I've had trouble accessing my blog the past few years since it appears Blogger was acquired by Google I now need to use my Google account. But which one? Who can say....

Anyway, I'll put as separate posts my post-day horoscope.

Friday, January 11, 2013

Japan blog posts

I really should go back through my Japan blog posts and make something of them.  Maybe incorporate into thesis in some way.  Hmm...

It is a tricky thing, blogging.  I've noticed how the number of posts decrease like wow over time.  Some days, I just post poems.  Sometimes, I treat this space as a diary.  Most of the time, I just put up random crap and try to write a la Helen Fielding.

I think it must be easier to write when abroad because everything is shiny new. No one wants to hear about my current watchthrough of films with twisty endings.  Particularly as the endeavor has produced nearly all depressing films thus far.

Here was my day then, I suppose:

7:30 wake up and put self together.  J.Lo inspired make up today with my interview outfit.  Many people said I looked fancy.  But I think I dress fancy most of the time, so what is to be said?

8:30 catch the shuttle to campus.  Overuse of heating.  Coffee has not yet cooled.

9:00 teach first section.  Students speak quite a bit.  I think the "Written by a Kid" videos facilitate conversation.

10:00 teach second section.  Ditto.  Student forgets umbrella, which I bring to lecture.

11:00 lecture for class I teach.  Bring umbrella.  Set up class blogs during class.  Read email.  Take notes.  Am generally wanting to be elsewhere, though prof is such good lecturer, I can only blame lame coffee.

12:30 office hours.  Read all of Susan Howe's That This.  Enjoy first and second sections.  Watch last hour of Buried on Netflix.  Feel lousy.

2:30ish take form to T at MFA office to get signed.  Trying to take free extension course on Spanish to English translation.

3:00ish take shuttle home but then must be later as...

4:00ish arrive home.  Watch TV shows on Hulu. Do dishes.

7:00 pick up K and A.  Go to work out.

8:30 arrive home.  Talk to L.  Shower.

9:00 watch Futurama.

10:00 read Vicious Red Relic, Love.  Too much information and sensation to take in more than an hour.

11:00 update Weight Watchers. Blog post.

12:15 to bed!

.... very boring.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Post-Day Horoscopes

Today you will watch a film with a troubling ending.  Cherish a cell phone with a fully charged battery.  And, when given the choice, neither become buried alive nor a truck driver in Iraq.