9:00 and i'm done with my anthro reading and also my hum reading-- "essay on man: of the nature and state of man with respect to the universe" by alexander pope. you'd think after reading that i'd know everything!! but i don't. but it did contain that quote "hope springs eternal in the human breast", so at least i now know where that came from.
i got all hot and sweaty in yoga today, cause the building doesn't have air conditioning. but it was really fun. yoga always makes me feel like a princess. or a dancer. there's this indian girl in the class who's probably been doing yoga since she was 2, because she can stretch herself insanely far in every position. i'm jealous. i wonder how long i'd have to do yoga to be that flexible.
there's this really steep long hill when you're coming onto campus from the direction of my house. if i'm not in shape i have to walk part of it. if i'm in shape i can ride up the whole thing, but just barely without dying. i wonder if riding up it every day i'll get better. i sure hope so, because every day i get to class and spend the first 15 minutes panting and trying to cool off.
i like robert raushenburg.
bike painting
you should look at this. it's a collaberative online encyclopedia that anyone can add to. it's really addictive once you look up something, there are links to all the other entries. i read the entry on postmodernism but, unfortunately, it did not change my confused thoughts on the whole situation.
i like the word "heteroglossia". (someone used it in class).
"At any given time, in any given place, there will be a set of conditions--social, historical, meteorological, physical--that will ensure that a word uttered in that place and at that time will have a meaning different than it would have under any other conditions. . . ."
"it alludes to the tension between those forces within a national language which are pulling it towards a standard central version, and those forces which are tugging away from the national standard towards the demotic or the dialectal. Any utterance exists at the intersection of these centripetal and centrifugal forces, and positions itself in relation to them. "