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| Merry Christmas Everyone, I hope your day was wonderful.
With much love, Julia | | |
| Goodmorning, its 5 am on the last day of classes for the semester and I am thrilled. I have a massage scedualed at 3 in celebration and preperation for finals week (a birthday gift from my roomates, my 20th birthday was last thursday.) I have been working hard to get all my stuff done on time for finals and such. We have a print exchange as our final for printaking, which means doing an edition of 16 prints and receiving one from everyone else in exchange for yours, which is fairily exiting because some people have really been doing beautiful work for their final. My edition is going well, I will look into getting a picture of it up on this. I am also prepping my artwork to go into a student juried art show, the entry date is in mid january and all students are eligible if any of you are interested, let me know and i will get you forms for your artwork. If I get works in Ill let you know so then you can see some of my artwork and of course get some free food at the exhibit opening
At the moment I am writing this so as to further delay a rough draft for a final paper which Im unfortunatly a bit stuck on. It is concerning Hume essay on human understanding and specifically his critique of causality and necessary connection, if anyone has any thoughts on causality Id appretiate hearing them. While looking for inspiration I did find an insightful quote From Calvin and Hobbes that may help us all with those pesky finals.
"I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that
the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning,
and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an
intimidating and impenetrable fog!"
-Calvin
Good luck on Finals everyone! | | |
| I joined the debate team, I think I had failed to mention that, Im judging a highschool debate tournament tommorow, and to my annoyence the first tournement I am going to involves leaving on December 2nd, which is my 20th birthday, ah well, dinner the night before I guess.
On the note for the day I just read an article in the newspaper about an up and comng artist, who just had her first gallery showing with an impressive turnout of 2000 people. Her abstract paintings are selling for 6,000 $ a piece....oh yeah shes 4.
In the art world the expression "your art is only worth what someone will pay for it" is thrown around a lot and in consideration of this new artist I felt my own artwork was thrown into rather harsh perspective. Another Artist, 17 this time, has been selling paintings for 50,000 $ and sculptures for around 100,000 grand. And here I sit at nearly 20 years and I have sold one piece for 100 $ and while the monatary compensation is not really the point, nice as it would be, i wondered if my art has ever really moved someone, if they have ever seen my work and whished that they owned it, or if they just saw something of mine and it made them think. I just wondered.
Perhaps I should be spending more time with my art. I am going to look into getting some studio space I think (my apartment not exactly being well suited for my oil paints) But at the least I feel a little dissapointed in myself and my artwork. | | |
| Good morning all. I am sitting in the college of education this bright sunny morning and I have just discovered that my philosophy paper on Leibniz has just been put off for another week, and I had to share my elation with you all. Other than that Im afraid news is scarce. My sister just finished applying for Oxford, and unfortunatly she feels it did not go well at all. She told me that she would just have to settle for Middlebury. I am in the midst of once again considering transfering schools. *sigh* its a mess. I feel very little desire to remain at this school any longer but I also cannot think of any other school that I would truly prefer to be at. I have though about going to midlebury as well as Dartmouth or maybe just somewhere back home in Colorado but as of yet have not made any clear decesions. Money of course always being a pressing issue oall of these schools would cost over three times as much as my attendence here, which is at best discouraging. Ah well.
On a better note my project for printamaking is going well, thanks to all of you who helped me out with that.
-Namastee, Julia
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| President Bush won the election......
I came home after discovering that it was for sure today and cried.
*sigh* we are screwed, Im afraid there is no way to put it more
elegantly, its just the simple truth.
After arriving home I sincerly considered kicking the door but finally
decided that a broken toe would not drive Bush to reconsider the
position and as health care costs are now doomed, I didnt think I could
afford to kick the door, so instead I decided to write to all of you.
My roomate came home and asked if I was upset.... obviously I was; that
door was quivering in fear under the ferocity of my glare. We then got
on the subject of why each of us voted for each of the candidates. I
explained that one reason was that I was afraid what was going to
happen especcially with the patriot act. She told me she didnt know
what that was and so I explained about the new laws we all get to
suffer from. She then told me that I should of told her this before the
election and she may not have voted for Bush! The only thing that keeps
coming to mind is that this is the sort of person who re-elected that
self serving egotystical war lord back into office, the sort of person
who doesnt know what the patriot act, and if they werent voting based
on what he did for the last four years, what in the world were all
those people voting on??
Oh dear. Well My concerns must be expressed. Firstly I have abandoned
all hope that the three positions in the supreme court are going to be
filled by democrats, they will almost certainly not wait another term,
meaning that Bush will be able to fill them with more rebublicans,
because hey with those threating numbers of democrats in the house
those rebublicans need to keep together. With the adddition of three
more Bush supporters, cases trying the patriot act for
constitutionality have no hope whatsoever of making it, the supreme
court will be then fully tipped rebublican and the legislation will
hold.
We can all kiss our educational funds goodbye, whats that you say, the
no child left behind act? that act that takes money from public schools
and dumps it into uncontrolled private schools? Well President Bush
seems to feel that no additional money is needed for us college
students, after all who needs a college degree, he sure hasnt put his
to any good use, and he never had trouble paying for it, why cant we
just find a way to make do on our own? The no child left behind act
doesnt do a thing for anyone past the age of 17
Foreign relations were already becoming preety muddled but it now seems
safe to say that it may be in the best interest for all of us to
vacate the country as long as we safely avoid any potential "enemies"
of president Bush (included but not limited to, Iran, Iraq, Palistine,
North Korea, China, France, Russia, and The contenent of
Africa, (I dont think they feel fabulous about all the funding we cut
based on Bush's "moral stance") ) Im sure we will be fine, though,
claiming we are from canada seems the best way to avoid some terrorist
groups, because in Bush's insightful plan to destroy terrorism he
decided to bomb the innocent civilians of their home
countries.....brilliant. If they didnt hate us before Im sure they feel
great now that their families are dead.
Iraq you say? liberated you say? well yes im sure they are
delighted we only killed 30,000 civilians there so far for a liberation
they never asked for. Now all they need to do is rebuild....well
everything, their capital is gone, their economy is gone, and their
families are all lieing in graves.... maybe in the future we should
leave liberation to other countries.
My rights as a human are likely to vanish as well. Though in his
original campaign Bush promised to not to touch Abortion, he has
already made a hell of a campaign to illegalize it. Some states have
already passed laws that the father must give permisssion before a
women may have an abortion, but heck I miss the dark ages just as much
as the next person and allowing men to tell me what I can do with my
body really brings back some fond memories. This way when a women is
raped, she gets to discuss with her rapist if she has permission to
abort his child, touching isnt it, President Bush is really bringing
families together.
Stem Cell research, i hope that no one you know is suffering from a
chronic illness, cancer, need for a transplant, or any other severe
health imparements, becauese that research wont be going anywhere. You
see Bush believes its immoral so lucky us, we all get to suffer through
his morals as well.
Gay couples, what can I say, Bush feels thats immoral too so your right
to get married under the law that protects other couples is going to be
stripped of you for sure. What is that, you feel you should have the
same rights as other people? so sorry Bush is feeling nastalgic for
those good old days of seperate but "equal". Actual reasoning, rights?
dont be silly we dont have those anymore....
Let us hope for some good fortune, we are going to need it.
Namastee- Julia
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