Well here is a cool science first! See Electron. see Electron go. Go Electron go . . . like the wind!

http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/electron_caught_on_film_for_the_first_time

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We’re All Black Listed, I Know It.

Soooooooooooo,
Another Library job goes to other people. I’m seriously reconsidering this career choice. But then I realize it isn’t just me and my chosen field it’s a lot of talented people loosing out to the “American Idols” of the world. What do I mean by that? I mean truly talented people are being passed up for the flashy looks and dance moves of the titillating.

Take my sister Kirsten, 20 + years experience teaching and working with young adults – by that I mean kids in the 10-13 age range (around 6th grade). She’s been a requested teacher, developed summer programming for years, and taught education in a college setting and now what? She’s waiting to see if she even has the “training” job now that Pfizer’s been bought out. That’s right she’s a glorified secretary like me for an organization not in her field. Apparently her experiences make her over qualified to be hired and then there is the fact that she doesn’t have calculus. Apparently if you can’t do calculus you can’t teach kids over 3rd grade (8years old). Cuz we all remember how difficult calculus was in 4th grade!
There are so many out there. I’ve come to understand that there is a section of the parable of the talents that must for hit the cutting room floor back in 300 AD. The part about the servant that takes his talents and cleans them up and heads out to share them with others; the servant that wants to increase them, and help others increase their talents too. But every time he tries he is turned away. “Your talents are not the kind I want” “You have to many talents”, or even “you aren't worth those talents” as they try to steel them and tell the world that the talents belong to the crook and not the honest man.

I often wonder why gives us talents and inspiration only to find ourselves unwanted and unneeded. What good is a maligned talent in the hands of someone who is loosing hope? Creativity turns out ugliness when abused by others/ the world.

What this means for me is that I’m not sure I want to work in a library anymore. I’m not sure I want to be a patron of libraries. Having spent 3 years being turned away I’m saying enough – UNCLE! I’m not sure what to do, but I’m sure a hell not going to do it in a library.

Nemui desu

As the title states I'm sleepy. I'm exhausted. Everyone I know is too. Something has sucked all the energy and joy out of life right before Christmas. YUCKY! All I want to do is sleep/ lay in bed.

I've had the flu... or quite possibly anxiety disorder - they have the same symptoms and I've been having small panic attacks. I figured flu until yesterday when I went home early from work because I was nauseous only to feel better after a nap and eating a good comfort food dinner – potatoes and eggs. I began to wonder if the tightness in my chest and the constant feeling of not being able to breath was more than I thought.

I looked some things up on Medline Plus (the best place for medical info), I read this list, and then went "crap". All but those last two are the same as flu.


* Racing or pounding heartbeat
* Chest pains
* Stomach upset
* Dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea
* Difficulty breathing, a sense of feeling smothered
* Tingling or numbness in the hands
* Flushes or chills
* Dreamlike sensations or perceptual distortions
* Terror: a sense that something unimaginably horrible is about to occur
and one is powerless to prevent it
* Fear of losing control and/or doing something embarrassing
* Fear of dying

So I'm either really sick or dying. . . er I mean stressed.

Dear Santa

Hello everyone who will be asking about my wish list. I have a bit of a list at Amazon.com and the link is HERE

Other things are:

Art Supplies
Water saluble oil paint - I don't have any so a starter kit or something is good.



I'll add more when I think of things.

SWEENEY TODD!!!

*shiver of joy*

The new Sweeney Todd is opening on Dec. 21 I heard some of the music and it's not as good as the original cast with Angela Landsbury. The link below is to her singing the meet pie song. I loved this musical growing up and would sing it a lot. One time, according to my parents, I came dancing up from the family room singing it and as I reached the front room said "with or without his privates; with is extra". The Bishop was visiting at the moment. *laugh* my poor mother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYGHHxJnDIw

You can’t show fine art here… it’s disgusting!

A teacher at Utah Valley State College created a poster advertising his new class; studying humanities from the baroque to the present. On his poster he had a lot of different images including Amor by Caravaggio - one of the most famous artist of the baroque era. BUT because the figure is a male nude (with an 1/8 of an inch penis) he was told that he couldn’t put the poster up. This is a state school first off and I doubt they can censor something that clearly is classical art and not something of a prurient interest . . . that means IT”S NOT PORN! Also there are classes taught here where students are tested on images containing similar nudes. For heavens sake they have nude models in the art department! Then there are the human anatomy classes, and lets not forget literature classes where the human body is described.



The censorship of the image is now waiting for a decision from a VP of the school. It’s not hard folks the answer is you can’t censor this. It’s art! And you think it’s a “naughty” image then you have problems! You are the one with issues. It’s a beautiful painting… just like the Sistine chapel. Just like most art for the last 2000 years

For a school in a town that claims to be filled with people who say they are the possessors of Gods truth they sure do miss the boat about the sacredness of the human body. This image does not defile man, but seeks to inspire or praise the miracle of it. Wonder what they’ll do when they learn the museum puts up paintings of nude ALL THE TIME.

Well if they don’t like that one maybe they’ll let him use St. John the Baptist…with goat!