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Existential sorrow and the daily accumulation of regret combined with usual Monday dread all really kicking in right now. I had a boyfriend who would literally pull the covers up over his head when the alarm went off and I never understood it. (I was usually already up! Unfathomable.) Now all I think about all week is going home and turning off the world, or counting the minutes until Friday when I can do same. In the meantime I’m alienating everyone I know, putting off important medical and financial decisions, grinding what’s left of my ability to do the work I care about into the ground, and frittering nervous energy into internet posts in the hopes of a brief moment of validation that quickly fades.

We need to look @ the history of the Oscars more closely. My mother was the first person who told me that she knew the original history of the Oscar. My mom said that this famous Mexican Director who she could only remember as “el indio”, posed in the nude for the sculptor who created the Oscar Statue. I decided to google that today and yes, I found that Wikipedia confirmed my mother’s claim. Emilio Fernández was the original name of the model.

“In need of a model for his statue Gibbons was introduced by his then wife Dolores del Río to Emilio “El Indio” Fernández. Reluctant at first, Fern�ndez was finally convinced to pose naked to create what today is known as the “Oscar”. ” -Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscars

So, yes, indeed, every time a celebrity says the words, Thank you to the Academy, he/she should also remember the contributions of this really amazing Mexican Director’s body. If you know your Latin American Cinema, you might remember the film, María Candelaria (1943). Emilio “El Indio” Fernandez directed that film. Emilio Fernández Born March 26, 1904(1904-03-26) Hondo, Coahuila, Mexico Died August 6, 1986 (aged 82) Mexico City, Mexico His father was a Kickapoo native american but “affectionately” called “el indio.”

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Happy Birthday MamaDu

“And I figured out that the reason I couldn’t get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.”