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January 12, 2007
Dieting Nakedly (And Speaking of Naked...)
Starting Weight (June 2006): 186 lbs
Current Weight: 167.2 lbs 166.0 lbs
Short Term Goal: 150 lbs
I haven't made it to the gym yet because I needed to update my status with the university and get a new id card and it's all very confusing when you're both a student spouse and a full-time (if temporary) faculty member with an odd waiver for the stuff you're teaching for one of the three departments with which you have a relationship. (If you think that's confusing to read, you should try living it.)
On the other hand, I keep forgetting to eat, which is what happens when the semester starts. I get caught up in something and the food on campus isn't appealing enough to interrupt the project for and the next thing you know, I've taught a class, hiked all over campus, run errands, had several conversations with people all over the place and it's 4pm and I haven't eaten since the 412 calorie smoothie I had at 8:30am no wonder I have a headache. So. Time to stock up on things to keep in my desk in case I forget to have lunch (again).
Speaking of which, today is my day off. As in, I don't have to be on campus unless I choose (and now that I think about it, I need to get the book for the reading that's due on Tuesday so I can reread it myself). Only, this is what I've done since I got up.
✔ Changed out of my pajamas.
✔ Eaten breakfast.
✔ Researched and printed example images of art by Tom Wesselman and Robert Mapplethorpe* and also images of Michelangelo's David and The Spirit of Liberty from the Justice Department. [Did you know that there are no photographs of the statue itself? There are only shots of John Ashcroft giving a press conference with it (pre-curtain) blurrily standing in the background. Also that the statue wasn't clothed, it was completely obscured for the remainder of his time in office? How very symbolic.] This was all for Tuesday's class in which we'll try to figure out the difference between pornography, art and erotica.
✔ Looked for (and found) some really great examples of wasp-waisted, balloon-breasted, weird comic book-bodied women for Thursday's class on the Male Gaze, to go along with the Playboy catalogue I received before Christmas (I would love to know how I made that mailing list) and the print of a romance cover all mantitty and swooning female. Because it's not only men objectifying women.
I got up at 8am. It is now 1:30 and I FINALLY got around to sorting the laundry. I should eat while I'm thinking of it.
*For the record, though I printed Mapplethorpe's Self-Portrait, 1978 for possible use in the class, I find the photograph disturbing. And if it bugs me, I can't imagine how it will distress my students. I think I'll warn them about the graphicness of it and then show it ONLY if all of the students are comfortable with it. And I mean comfortable, not just bowing to peer pressure. Anyone who's dying of curiosity can google it, after all. That's how I found the image.
It's pretty extreme. I'm not surprised people had fits about it in the 80's. I'm not sure the responses (ART IS EEEEVIL! SAVE THE CHILDREN!!) were the healthiest and most useful reactions, but I'm not surprised there were huge civil/social to-do-ings about it.
Posted by sally at January 12, 2007 02:59 PM
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