After my little rant on CFS/Alcohol intolerance, I've still been feeling quite nasty, so have been put on a dreaded elimination-diet to try to figure out if any foods, other than nuts and dairy are disagreeing with me. Sounds quite sensible, cut out all common-known foods that cause symptoms of intolerance in CFS people, detox, then add small amounts back one by one. Logical. Until I realised this leaves very few things that I *can* eat.
For the next four weeks I'm supposed to avoid dairy, eggs, wheat, gulten, yeast and red meat, tea, coffee and alcohol. Alcohol no problem. Meat no problem. Used to avoiding dairy, but yeast! No marmite........no marmite...andandandnand no tea! no coffee. oh boy.
36 hours into no tea/coffee I was dreaming of espressos. 38hours in (two hours after waking up) I thought i was getting a migraine. 40hours, migraine medication not working, and craving tea - I realised. I was having another Withdrawal. Boy did my head ever hurt. Whoever said a cup of tea can cure everything certainly knew what they were talking about, drank a cup and I was fine. I have now resorted to allowing myself a cup a day. The excuse? If I want to be well enough to revise, I have to stop the headache. (The things addicts tell themselves.) I don't think I've ever revised without copious coffee-drinking, I'm sure it's the key to my sucess *wibbles* I'm going to faiiiiiiiiillllll...............
I feel like a true arty-farty person, on a werid diet, which is a fish-eating colieac vegan, with a yeast and nut allergy-diet - doing yoga with weird art theories zipping around in her head, debating whether or not Duchamp's Fountain/Urinal is indeed an artwork called 'Fountain' or a urinal that someone mistook for art and abandoned in a museum. Then again with 'artwork' likethis and these being left in galleries, who wouldn't be a bit bemused?
I have come to the conclusion that the reason I'm finding revision for Aesthetics so tedious is that frankly, I don't give a damn.
A urinal is NOT art, it is NOT talent, and it is not talent (unless in being able to talk total twaddle and convince supposedly intelligent people with degrees that it is art can be considered a talent). You can't just take a theory and say beause my brillo boxes represent the closing in of postmodern materialistic culture, and an age of sameness blahblahblah this is art. Granted, more work went into producing cardbord brillo boxes than simply singing an urinal, but you'll get my point .I do not need to write papers and debate on this. It's abundantly obvious. It can't be art just because someone says it is.
I need to find an artist to argue with. *grins* any volunteers?(Does anyone seriously think that 'found' objects are art, out of curiousity? I'd be interested to know how many people do. )
I have the vague idea of setting up the Anti-Brillo-Box society .............
I'm off to find food. I'm hungry again.
And probably do some yoga. Brillo-Boxes are bad for your health...........