Anyway, I was 10 then, and finding myself short on reading material, would check out the history books he kept downstairs. I remember sneakily reading Marie Antoinette's biography, which was full of so many dirty bits and just weird weird shit that porn seemed less exciting. Some other books were boring. But there was this one biography that blew me away...
It was a biography of a jewish woman, an artist who lived in a ghetto/concentration camp in WWII. Academic instruction for children in the camp was forbidden, but she gave secret art lessons to the girls there, as a kind of therapy. The whole book, or the part that I remember, was about her teaching philosophy, against this backdrop of sheer horror, and it was just so powerful I couldn't get her out of my head for years and years --
I recalled her first name was Frida, but all other factual information vanished, and anyone I asked about it had a blank look on their face. So I had this real vivid impression and absolutely no proof, after these 11 years, that I didn't just make the whole thing up. Well, last night I stumbled onto this --
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/friedl_dicker-brandeis>
So it was Friedl, and the camp was Terezin. She died in Aushwitz, as did most of her kids, but she preserved the drawings. I am in some disbelief as to why her story is so unknown...fuck Hana's Suitcase, this shit is crazy.
If these online services became subscription-only with a monthly fee overnight, how much, if at all, would you be willing to pay to use each of them?
Livejournal
Craigslist
Flikr
Picasa
Last.fm
Google Maps
Mapquest
Wikipedia
YouTube
IMdb
....and any others like them I can't think of at the moment.
I am very curious.
EDIT
As for myself, I would probably pay the most money to subscribe to Wikipedia and Google Maps. And the least for Livejournal and Facebook: it is likely if paying for them is mandatory, a lot of people would close their accounts, sort of deafeating the whole social network thing. YouTube is a funny one in that respect - I think I'd be willing to pay a small amount for it if it cleaned up a little, as in gotten rid of self-made-clip-posing-as-official-traile
Thank you to all that made it possible :)
small angel of a child goes "whoa!" while trying to avoid my wheel ---
dad responds, "yes, today there's going to be a lot of woes".
curtains.
The lightning sure was something though!...We stood on our garage roof as long as I could stand the cold, then went to the park for the finale. So refreshing.
Плачет о мяче, укатившемся в пруд.
Возьми себя в руки, дочь самурая.
Entirely oblivious until the cashier started humming the tune, too.
Oh, and I am done school for the year, phew.
who's next
He's this frightfully mothered seven-year old. He likes "girl" stuff, which is pretty extraordinary considering how homophobic (and prone to ostracizing) kids are. Spiderman rules his word. This one time at recess the boys were making up superhero characters for themselves and somebody was the bad guy and they shot him down with lasers. As he lay dying on the floor they proceeded to strip his armour as trophies, and he was struck with the idea of pretend-robbing the trampled foe of his penis.
I don't really sympathize with him because he cries a lot. He accuses the games of being unfair whenever he's not on top: sore loser. And I'm the bad cop at that job -- the best consolation I can muster up is "run faster."
I'm fascinated to see what all these kids are gonna grow up to be like.
- Mood:
enraged
Would lead to pleasure?
Did she understand it when they said
That a man must break his back to earn
His day of leisure?
Will she still believe it when he's dead?
In other words, I'm on break!
While Jesus was probably black, Santa was probably not. (I run into the skin colour problem a lot in kindergarden art classes.)
One of the places I do art lessons at is moving, to a financially riskier but also bigger and better location. Me and a friend, the second art teacher, might have a classroom of our own. We don't have space for easels at the current place, but we will be getting them at this new one. We are pretty much given free reign in terms of the classroom set-up.
This is all very exciting news, but I am somewhat conflicted. My first instinct would be to get stuff organized in the same way it is in the art school which I owe all of my abilities to -- the one that brought me up, the reason behind all of my art jobs, my current one there being that of a teacher assistant. But I feel kind of...wrong?
The success of an art school to a great degree depends on this basic logistics stuff -- the better it works, the better I work, the better the students work. And while I don't feel any shade of guilt appropriating the assignments my boss comes up with in my own lessons, copying classroom/materials layout seems more heinous, somehow. It's her ideas, her trial and error I would be capitalizing on. The trouble is, I *know* it works -- and I want so badly for my classroom to work too -- that it's hard to resist. And it's not like the two places are in competition or whatever: they are in two different regions, and mine is definitely a smaller operation. Her school is prospering for years, and my school is fighting to live.
I think I'm overreacting, but I don't want to feel like a copycat! >:|
What do you guys do to make being sick more fun/productive/not so soul crushing?
AI, the last half of which I caught flipping through channels at my parents' place a couple years ago (so far I have not seen the whole thing.)
Wall-E, which made me sob like an infant tonight; I can only partially blame my massive fever for it.
So robots make me cry. I guess I expect humans to be dicks to each other all the time, but robots?.. the innocent, innocent robots? whyyyyyyy?...
On the subject of being lame, I like my job a lot and I've been getting along with my parents real well this year.
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