Ugh

Now I feel even worse than last night. I had a couple dizzy spells and wound up getting sick a few times last night before I decided to call it quits and go to bed sometime before 4 this morning.

It's 11 am now, I've been up for an hour. I don't feel sicker, though I'm a little queezy and I'm pretty sure my headache has evolved into a migraine, but I didn't sleep well at all.

Ugh. If anyone needs me, I'll be in the corner clutching my head in pain.

History of Sexuality

You know, once you actually get into it, it's not so bad afterall. It's a little slow-going, but this idea that "repression" is actually a catalyst for the opposite is fascinating to me. I only have one more part - about 60 pages left. I've been taking periodic breaks to absorb the material. I feel all scholarly, though, trudging through this thing. It does use one of my pet peeves though. In academic or "intelligent" institutions, people for whatever feel the need for using extremely "intelligent" words to describe an idea, and usually a whole host of such words. What bothers me is when they do this, even though the idea can be summed up using a)laymen's vocabulary, or b)using a relatively small amount of words. I hate that people have to "show off" to make themselves feel smart.

Which is almost ironic, because in four seperate passages now, Foucault has attacked society for being so "verbose" when it comes to sexuality. Funny.

Needless to say, I'm getting much use out of my dictionary.

History of Sexuality, pt. 2

What!? Foucault states that power and sex are intertwined, which I have to agree with. But his theories on power are mind-bending, and as far as I can see, WRONG. He states that, "...the father in the family is not the 'representative' of the sovereign or the state; and the latter are not projections of the father on a different scale. The family does not duplicate society, just as society does not imitate the family."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't societies, just like families, built with an innate hierarchy of power? One person, or group of persons, holds all of the power (even though Foucault's idea of power is much more tangible than what we think of it as), theoretically, and with that power directs the lives, activities, and structure of those "beneath" them?

Um...did I just challenge theory? I think I did.

oh no! i'm becoming one of them!

*does back flips*

I finished it!

I finished The History of Sexuality!!!

Now my brain is dead. If anyone steps in something grey, could you point me to it, please?

One more thing

I absolutely hate looking at the weather forcast and seeing "Abundant Sunshine".

It makes me want to throw a rock at the weather guys.