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        <font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">March</span></font><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
</span></font><p><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">&quot;The history which bears and
determines us,&nbsp; has the form of war rather than that of a language:
relations of power, not&nbsp; relations of meaning.&quot; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;
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<p><font color="black" face="Bell MT,Courier"><span style="font-size:12pt;">March  20, 2001<br>
 Five hours of designing a web page yesterday.&nbsp; Five more trying&nbsp;
to get it&nbsp; launched. No luck. If I was smart I'd spend some time reading.&nbsp;
But I'm charging ahead.&nbsp; Ironic, since my contemplation for the week&nbsp;
is about power. That contemplation &nbsp; began on Sunday morning when I
read</span></font><font face="Bell MT" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> &nbsp; </span></font><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010326&amp;c=1&amp;s=mccormack"><font face="Bell MT,Courier" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
 this</span></font></a><font face="Bell MT,Courier" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> article in the Nation. I think all the stuff about
the election &nbsp;&nbsp; and Lynne Cheney is right on, but it hit a personal
chord for me. I think &nbsp; the fact that we grow up and are trained with
this western-civ&nbsp; notion of&nbsp; a narrative line that is told by the
winner gives us a confused&nbsp; relationship &nbsp; to power. Last week
on Oprah, Dr. Phil, who I think is&nbsp; an emotional fascist, &nbsp; led
the audience in this exercise, which I thought&nbsp; was interesting. He
had &nbsp; them hold hands in a kind of arm wrestling&nbsp; manner and each
person took turns &nbsp; pushing the other's hand to one side and saying
I'm right. It was fun to&nbsp; watch. We need to be right because we're writing
our narrative and we think&nbsp; someone&nbsp; in the narrative has to be
right. I'd like to shake that western-civ&nbsp; training. I'd like to try
to notice the meaning in my interactions and I'd&nbsp; like to be secure
enough in myself to not fight for position when I'm in relationship.&nbsp;
And in other power related issues, right now, I'd like to throw my laptop&nbsp;
out the window. But, I'm eating Pad Thai and trying again.</span></font><font face="Bell MT" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Bell MT,Courier"><span style="font-size:12pt;">March 21, 2001</span></font><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br>
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I could probably have learned&nbsp; HTML &nbsp; in the time it has taken&nbsp;
me to put this together. Thanks&nbsp; to </span><a href="http://www.willa.com"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
Willa</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;"> for telling me to try cutting&nbsp; and pasting in smaller amounts.&nbsp;
It gave me the will to keep trying today. Reading her journal has been some
&nbsp; of the inspiration for this page. More thanks to tech support at DNAI.
If &nbsp; at first you don't succeed...&nbsp; and all that. I do think a
web site is a bit &nbsp; like a message in a bottle.&nbsp; Maybe all writing
is a message in a bottle. Unless&nbsp; you're Emily Dickinson. &nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp;</span></font><font color="#6600cc" face="Bell MT,Courier"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></p>
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 <font face="Bell MT,Courier"><span style="font-size:12pt;">March&nbsp; 22, 2001</span></font><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br></span></font></div>
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</font></span><font face="Bell MT,Courier"><span style="font-size:12pt;">My struggle to get the site up and perfect continues. But, it is&nbsp; up.
I now&nbsp; have a world wide forum, that is if any one clicks my way.&nbsp;
Suzanne said the&nbsp; site was radical.&nbsp; That shot my ego into over
drive!&nbsp; Suzanne has been reading&nbsp; web&nbsp; journals lately since
her </span><a href="http://www.windchimewalker.com/mitchells5.html"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> kids</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;"> were
featured in one. If we're on line at the same time&nbsp; we read them together.
So, I was standing in&nbsp; line at food for more, &nbsp; other wise known
as Whole Foods. I like to shop there&nbsp; because they have all that organic
food, the fish, meat and poultry is very&nbsp; fresh and hormone&nbsp; free
and they have a bakery and a deli. They buy locally. I just try to ignore&nbsp;
how much it all costs and I can only indulge that&nbsp; ignorance&nbsp; in
small doses.&nbsp; I shop at </span><a href="http://www.rainbowgrocery.org/"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Rainbow</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;">
 for more of my food. I like the collective and the prices and&nbsp; they&nbsp;
have great stuff but ... no meat. So, there I was buying my expensive&nbsp;
blueberry&nbsp; muffins and lamb chops. There was a magazine&nbsp; in a rack,&nbsp;
ASCENT
&nbsp; . It seemed like eye candy for people who are into yoga but I thought
I'd &nbsp;&nbsp; flip though it because there was an </span><a href="http://www.ascentmagazine.com/issues/09-valley.html"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
article</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;"> about Arundahti Roy and her battle&nbsp; to save the &nbsp; Narmada&nbsp;
River. I ended up adding it to the pile of things on which I should not have&nbsp;
been spending that much money. 
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It's a nice enough magazine. There is content in all
that&nbsp; gloss but&nbsp; things&nbsp; like this always work my sense of
irony. Even&nbsp; dissent and the&nbsp; support of dissent can be commodified.
It seems important&nbsp; to stay mindful,&nbsp; even as you hand over the
cash. I don't feel guilty&nbsp; but I am aware that I&nbsp; am privileged.
Not privileged in the go-ahead-spend-that-disposable-income &nbsp; sense.
I have no disposable income. (In fact, right now, I have no income.) &nbsp;
In the sense that I can buy a magazine and still pay my rent. So far. I've
&nbsp; read </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">The Cost of Living </span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;">and </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">The God of Small Things, </span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;">
both wonderful &nbsp; books. The pictures in the article touched my heart
and I wanted to be able &nbsp; to look at them. But there can be a quality
of the pornographic in this act. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 
 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; There I was, in line in the halls of more than enough.
Even&nbsp; the feel of&nbsp; the quality of the paper the magazine is printed
on communicates&nbsp; something&nbsp; to me about who I am. And I'm looking
at pictures of people&nbsp; who are standing &nbsp; in the rising water that
has flooded their homes as a result of large dam &nbsp; building and river
diverting in India. I want to stay informed and I know &nbsp; that I have
choices in terms of how to&nbsp; stay informed. Reading glossy &nbsp; magazines
is not enough. There are links in the article for more information.
 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It's best to be mindful. I cooked the lamb last
night&nbsp; with roasted &nbsp; red peppers, shallots, garlic, kalamata olives
and balsamic&nbsp; vinegar. I served in a bowl with watercress and smashed
potatoes.&nbsp; </span><a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=72722"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
 Kara</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;"> &nbsp; came over for dinner.&nbsp; It was wonderful to spend time
with her and the food was good.</span></font><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
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<p><i><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Bell MT">The only thing worth globalizing &nbsp;
is dissent. &nbsp;&nbsp; - Arundhati  Roy</font></span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Bell MT">
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      <div align="Justify"><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">March 23 2001</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Bell MT"> </font></span></div>
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<font face="Bell MT,Courier"><span style="font-size:12pt;">And so having positioned myself as a scribe I find I have not much to say.&nbsp;
Doesn't that suck? I'm still fighting with Netscape composer. I may need
to find a better WYSIWYG program or learn HTML. I kinda want to learn HTML
but I'm hyper about doing the writing. It does stimulate my brain to have
a box to fill. It's been fun to send out the flag to friends and get e-mail
back.&nbsp; </span><a href="http://www.steveconn.com"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Steve</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;"> wrote and sent
a link to an &nbsp; article by his wife Molly. I tried to link to it but
the link changed once it was published. People ask the obvious question,
&quot;what are&nbsp; you gonna do with your web site?&quot; That is the question. &nbsp;
      </span></font><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></font><font face="Bell MT,Courier"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
If I&nbsp; try to be profound things will get really stupid, really fast.
      
I am hoping that having a reason to write will keep me productive. But there&nbsp;
are all the oddities of writing in a public space. And is this a public space?&nbsp;
I mean, really, who is going to read this? And then there's the reread that&nbsp;
I do after I publish it and see the grammar mistake that I did not intend.&nbsp;
It's nerve racking but in a good way. And then there is the fact that I have&nbsp;
time now since I have no job and am not in school. Will I still write here&nbsp;
when I have less time for virtual reality? And then...and then...and then...
&nbsp;&nbsp; I watched&nbsp; </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">Will &amp; Grace</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;"> last night. There were
two fat jokes and the whole episode was about not being able to accept physical 
difference (read&nbsp; ugly). Just when you think it's safe to go back into 
the cultural pool. I&nbsp; must admit I laugh out loud at some of the stuff, 
it can be very funny in&nbsp; very smart ways and the fat jokes are always 
dumb. Grace was wearing a backless&nbsp; top featuring her extremely bony 
back. I might not have noticed but I was&nbsp; already cranky from the first 
fat joke and it seemed as if they were glamorizing&nbsp; her extreme thinness. 
I always want to hope that I can watch television and&nbsp; relax. Nope. There
use to be shows that I loved and wouldn't want to miss.&nbsp; </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">Star Trek</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;">
 was church. Even the shows that I like these days&nbsp; do not inspire that
kind of loyalty. I like </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">The Practice</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;"> and I'm glad&nbsp; there is one
strong fat woman represented in a serious manner on television.&nbsp; But
her only love interest turned out to be a murderer and a really violent&nbsp;
crazy murderer at that. Now she has chosen to have a baby without the father's&nbsp;
support or participation. There was no development of their relationship.&nbsp;
It is as if the writers can't figure out how to write about her romantically.&nbsp;
And they have completely problematized her pregnancy. She had so much trouble&nbsp;
she had to appear on another Fox/Kelly show, </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">Gideon's Crossing</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;"> to
survive. I'm happy to see Camryn Manheim on as many shows as possible but
Suzanne told me that Camryn's pregnancy was problem free. Her character's
pregnancy suffers its writers and their inability to imagine a strong, fat,
healthy, woman. Suzanne, who is always perceptive and articulate in these
matters, says, &quot;there are strong injunctions against portraying unruly people,
like fat women, enjoying all the benefits obedient people have.&quot;<br>
 &nbsp;&nbsp; I am almost done with </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">Poisonwood Bible. </span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;">I can hardly
put it down. &nbsp; This will end the African journey I began in December.
I read </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">Things Fall&nbsp; Apart </span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;"> by Chinua Achebe and </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">King Leopold's
Ghost </span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;">by Adam Hochschild.&nbsp; I'm glad I read them before the Kingsolver.
She references a lot of history&nbsp; that I didn't know prior to reading
them. Of course when I told David what&nbsp; I was reading to go on my African
journey he gave me the names of three more&nbsp; books. But my journey was
waylaid by my </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">SIMS</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;"> addiction and took so&nbsp; long to complete. Now
I think I need to shift my focus. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; As usual, for someone
with not much to say I have babble on. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
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        <font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">March 24 2001</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Bell MT">
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<p align="justify"><font face="Bell MT,Courier"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I had this funny little synchronicity yesterday. Adrienne was on
her way to pick me up and take me to the beach. I was reading an </span><a href="http://www.thesunmagazine.org/deanmoore.html"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
 interview</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;"> with Kathleen Dean Moore, in </span><a href="http://www.thesunmagazine.org/"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
 The Sun</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;">, in which she talks about a thought experiment suggested by
the philosopher John Locke; the purpose of which is to define what is essentially 
who we are. In Locke's experiment one is to imagine that you are your neighbor 
and your neighbor is you in terms of physical qualities. So, if I were thinner 
and shorter and had black hair would I still be me? Moore's, and perhaps Locke's,
conclusion is that you would still be you. In an absolute sense I agree but
I think there is a body/mind split in that reasoning. I think all of who
we are makes us who we are. The little scar on my finger reminds me of a
part of my story. Cutting my finger while cleaning a meat slicer at my first
job might not have shaped much of who I am but it has some play. Restaurant
workers will occasionally compare battle scars. And, my neighbor has the
kind of thin body that is privileged in our culture and I do not. I wouldn't
trade bodies with her because my fat body has taught me much of what I know.
But that's not what was interesting to me. My buzzer rang and I thought it
was Adrienne. I went to the bottom of the stairs and my neighbor was being
helped from a cab. She had crutches and a cast. My neighbor and I are polite
when we see each other but we have that kind of relationship that you often
have in the city. We are friendly and distanced. Occasionally I am annoyed
by noise from her apartment or someone from her apartment puts a bottle in
my recycling box, requiring me to carry it down the three flights of stairs.
But nothing that bothers me in any serious way. I had just spent two minutes
imagining that I had her body and she had mine and there she was with a wounded
body. I took the trash to the trash can and by the time I came back she was
gone. She gets up the three flights of stairs on crutches faster than I do
with out them. There is no epiphany here. I'm not bakin her a cake or anything.
I imagine that if I told her all this she wouldn't understand and might,
upon hearing that I had her body and she had mine, add a lock to her door.
If she were alone I might ask if she needed anything from the store but she's
not. There are ways in which the experience demonstrates a kind of connectedness.
It was kinda fun. Adrienne came and we went to Muir beach and had an afternoon
of great conversation. The drive there was influenced by my reading of the
article. The smell of eucalyptus as we drove through Muir woods reminded
me of my love for California, my longing to be part of it. We had a funny
lunch of smoked Gouda and lobster bisque in a tavern like place, the name
of which I can't remember. We stopped and bought fruit and roses from a roadside
stand and had cake and coffee at Just Deserts in the city. I finished Poisonwood
Bible before I went to sleep. </span></font><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br></span></font></p>
<div align="Justify"><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:0;">March 25 2001</span></font></div>
                                                                        
                                      
    <p align="justify"><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:0;">I was loving 
    doing the site but I was stuggling with the software. I kept thinking I 
    needed to learn HTML and I am still interested in doing that but I am having 
    too much fun with the writing and linking and blah blah blah. So, I bought 
    some WYSIWYG software, Namo. And what a relief. Having some ways to play 
    may bury me in page writing obsession&nbsp;but it's a little better than 
    my last addiction, The SIMS. Much thanks to Deb for driving me all over 
    San Francisco to find the software.She knows my obsessive nature</span></font></p>
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    2001</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Bell MT">    </font></span></div>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:0;"><font face="Bell MT">Having spent all 
    day Saturday reading help pages for Netscape and Microsoft Word, the two 
    programs I had built the site in, both of which were a struggle, and most 
    of the day Sunday trying to find new software that wouldn't be so miserable 
    I felt quite exhausted. There was a funny moment yesterday. Deb and I had 
    gone to Office Depot, Office Max and Costco. Finally we had parked in the 
    Mission and fifth parking lot and walked the four long blocks to Computown. 
    I was looking for Dreamweaver or Pagemaker by Symentec because they had 
    been recommended and/or I had read about them. Computown is filled with 
    very young men running around or standing around. All the ones I delt with 
    seemed to be unable to sustain interaction for more than two sentences. 
    I think they may have all spent a little too much time at the playstation. 
    One of them directed me to a cabinet in which there was a box with Dreamweaver 
    software. I started tugging at the door only to realize it was locked and 
    then I began looking for someone with a key until Deb broke through my frenzy 
    to point out the cost, four hundred dollars. You might think I woulda figured 
    that out by the fact that the door was locked. When I want something I can 
    be quite obtuse. Deb was there when I bought a fourteen dollar&nbsp;bar 
    of soap because I hadn't noticed how much it cost until I was in the check 
    out line and the clerk had to do a price check. At that point I was too 
    chagrined to not buy it. It has lasted four months so far and I contend 
    that good soap does last longer but I would not have paid that much if I 
    had noticed the cost earlier. Standing in front of the glass case in Computown 
    Deb only had to say, &quot;this is like the soap.&quot; I continued the 
    quest, endured more hapless customer service and decided on the Namo software. 
    While we were there I showed Deb the site on one of the computers that they 
    have available for customers. I felt quite shy about leaving the site up 
    as we walked away. There is this whole self consciousness about who sees 
    the site. It's public space but the only people likely to find will be friends, 
    or friends of friends unless I join a web ring and even then I'd be in ring 
    of, theoretically,  like minded folk. And why do I care who sees it? I spent 
    the rest of the day yesterday fussing over the site, trying to decide if 
    I like the frames. My sink is full of dishes. I haven't read the paper and 
    the want ads. What a crazy chick I am?!    </font></span></p>
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                         </span></font><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">March 27, 2001</span></font></div>
                                                                        
                                      
                <p><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Yesterday morning I was listening to 
                </span></font><a href="http://www.democracynow.org"><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Democracy 
                Now</span></font></a><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">! on </span></font><a href="http://www.kpfa.org"><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">KPFA 
                </span></font></a><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">as is my habit. Amy Goodman's 
                familiar voice began the opening and suddenly there was the 
                sound of disruption. I can't say that any other way but suddenly 
                there was this problem and then the sound of the Bessie Wash, 
                the executive director, of 
                the board of Pacifica talking about an incident in Houston this 
                last weekend, where the board was meeting. The events, her version 
                and a version I heard later aren't what stayed with&nbsp;me. 
                What stayed with me was the fear that I felt when I heard the 
                sound of Amy's show being stopped. I love the show and it is 
                a major source of news for me but the fear was not the fear 
                of loss. It is difficult to imagine watching a major television 
                network and having the head of the network interrupt the program 
                to say we know that people who support a given cause may be 
                listening and we want to say to you ..etc. If it was a football 
                game that was interrupted there would be a riot. There are pressures on networks 
                that play out behind closed doors. Advertisers dictate content. 
                But this felt like 1984. This person used her power to overrule 
                programing. It was scary.     There are ways to speak out about 
                this through </span></font><a href="http://www.savepacifica.net/"><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Save 
                Pacifica</span></font></a><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> and</span></font><a href="http://www.pacificacampaign.org/"><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> 
                The Pacifica Campaign.</span></font></a><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></p>
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<font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">March 28, 2001</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Bell MT">
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                <p><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I woke up yesterday, went on my walk, 
                ate my cereal and a bagel, drank my coffee and got some laundry 
                in the washer and from the washer to the dryer. Suddenly I was 
                exhausted. I went back to bed and had a terrible nap. I never 
                did snap out of it. Later, I was on line looking for a job and went 
                to get an address from the </span></font><a href="http://www.thislife.org/"><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">This 
                American Life</span></font></a><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> site. I decided 
                to peruse some of their site recommendations and found a site 
                called </span></font><a href="http://www.openletters.net"><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> 
                Open Letters</span></font></a><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">. At first glance 
                it seemed like a promising bunch of writing but it had stopped 
                publishing in November. I followed some of their links. One was to a page by a young woman in Canada. 
                I actually liked one of her rants, </span></font><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/me3/ramblings/useyourbrain.html"><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Use 
                Your </span></font></a><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Brain. It was fun to read 
                because it wasn't particularly good writing and it was written 
                from her view behind a service counter. I've seen things from 
                that view. But lots of the 
                links led to pages on which men write about wanting sex from 
                women and women not wanting to have sex with them. Or women 
                writing about wanting sex. There was just way too much gender 
                stupidity for me. Later a news woman, in a piece on an increase 
                in deaths from cancer for women,  actually said that the women's 
                movement had made it OK for women to smoke. It all made me more 
                tired. The boxes with which we define our selves are too small. 
                Since I am already writing about things that made me cranky 
                I want to mention this article in the New York Times on Sunday. 
                The article was about problems with cloning but what bugged 
                me was the picture that was used to demonstrate the problems 
                It was a picture of two mice, one of which was fat. For me the 
                message was if we clone people we may not be able to control 
                the ways the genes express themselves. And terrible things will 
                happen, the worst thing will be that they may get fat. I tried 
                to link to the article but you have to have a password to get 
                to it. </span></font></p>
            <font color="black" face="Bell MT,Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;">&quot;...explore the idea of what the lanquage that women
speak would really be if noone were there to correct them.&quot;<br>
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Cixous<br>
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<font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">March 29, 2001</span></font><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
                </span></font></p>
                <p><font color="black" face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I got 
                a good nights sleep. First one in a week. I'm hoping that means 
                I'll be a bit more engaged today. This week has been the kind 
                of week that might have buried me in depression. Working on 
                the site has buoyed me in some ways. It's interesting to me, 
                the small hope that someone may read this keeps me thinking 
                about what I'm going to say. I think this reflects how much 
                I need acknowledgement and response. I'm not even embarrassed 
                by that, though I use to be. I am aware that lately I just seem 
                to need an excessive amount of acknowledgement. It seems as 
                if I am in this extended recovery from my college years. Keeping 
                things in perspective I know that it hasn't been that long and 
                I am feeling better and I am waiting to see if I get into grad 
                school. It's seems to be difficult for me to assess how I'm 
                doing since the measure of how I'm doing is always changing. 
                And, despite the fact that there may only be a few people reading 
                anything here, I feel as if it must be written well. And the 
                measure of that is also shape shifting. AH.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">March 30, 2001</span></font></p>
                <p><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Mumia has fired his attorneys. One 
                of them published a book about the case. I actually found it 
                kind of smarmy when OJ's lawyers published books and the case 
                was over when they did. The lawyer/author in interviews seems 
                oblique and feigns wounding; since he has worked so hard and 
                sees the book as an extension of the work. He characterizes 
                the world wide protest movement for Mumia as histrionic and 
                says the movement is to blame for a lack of main stream media 
                coverage of Mumia's case. He believes his book proves that Mumia 
                did not have a fair trail and may, in fact, be innocent. I guess 
                if you see the court room as a theater you may only want to 
                restage the play. If you see the court room as a site for social 
                justice you may position yourself less as a player and more as an advocate. 
                You may, for example, think it unseemly to publish a book when 
                you must enter the court room and be perceived as someone with 
                no vested interest.</span></font></p>
                <p><font face="Bell MT"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I saw a rerun of an Oprah show on which 
                Carnie Wilson and others talked about their weight loss. Carnie 
                had a frantic, deer in the headlights look. She had surgery 
                to reduce the size of her stomach. Her description of yelling 
                at a candy bar seemed revealing. Carnie's body is one of those 
                bodies that was fat through out childhood. She says she began 
                dieting when&nbsp;she was twelve. I can't help but wonder about 
                the negative impact of early dieting on her health. The other 
                people on the show had lost weight through a combination of 
                diet and exercise. As they told their stories Carnie looked 
                tearful. People that create a life in which they exercise vigorously 
                and eat moderately make a choice about a way to be with their 
                bodies. These people seemed healthy and self contained. And 
                they weren't all that thin. In other words they have found a 
                way to be with their bodies. It is always a story that includes 
                running from the painful experience of being fat. To that extent 
                I think it's a self containment that can be toppled by weight 
                gain and is therefor not substantial. But,  it was Carnie that 
                really broke my heart. She is running from something much deeper 
                and no doubt painful. And she resorted to a kind of mutilation 
                to give wings to her flight.  </span></font></p>
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