While I am not a believer in horoscopes primarily because I don’t believe there are only twelve types of people in this world, in checking my e-mail early this morning (while, of course, I was on the computer working on papers due) I received a greeting from Excite @ Home (now Comcast, in the American takeover tradition) and checked it to find a horoscope included. Now if you’ve followed my last couple of posts, this will fit right in with them, and piles more guilt upon my head as well:
November 09, 2003
“Scorpio Horoscope
October 23 – November 21
You’re being closed and distant and if you think that the people you’re spending time with don’t notice, you’re wrong. Contrary to what you might think, nodding your head every so often doesn’t make it seem like you’re really listening. If you keep it up, you’ll run the risk of seriously offending the person who’s talking to you. It shouldn’t be that hard to get your head out of the clouds and focus on what’s going on around you, especially since this isn’t expected of you all that often.”
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology