Classical Taste

Today, I was kinda hit with a question. 

What happened to classical art?

 

Okay, yeah, it's not that great of a question at first, but just wait, just wait.

So, I love, absolutely love marble sculptures. I think they are just about the most amazing artwork ever.  If there was just a museum filled with marble sculptures I'd be in heaven and could stay hours upon hours just going through it.  

It just amazes me. 

These guys had some serious talent.  

To get such detail out of rock and keep it completely smooth.

But, a question that was brought up to me by a friend was, why are we not doing this anymore?

I actually don't know, and I wont pretend like I do, but I thought it was an interesting thought, 

because if you think about it, if people want to have talent and be great why don't they want to get better, not get worse...

The way you can see through the veil almost is an absolutely incredible.

I think people are missing out when they don't see these statues nowadays. 

The value of talent in art is being lost I think.  Art now is definetly not being over taken by modern art, but it's giving more attention to it, which I think is sad because this art here has so much talent and time, and effort that went into making it.

There is a natural beauty that anyone can see in the human body, or in nature, but to ignore that and make useless junk that's glued to a canvas is silly because there's truly so much potential. 

Where has our search for beauty gone?  We're going downhill in so many ways.

Not only in art but in all areas, but our art is a good example of our downhill slide.  In 100 years will our new generations want to look back at a bunch of trash glued to a wall?  Will they want to see a black canvas with a white dot.  To be honest... you can only look at a white dot on black canvas for so long... there;s only so much depth to that... Does this tell us something about our society?  Are we becoming more and more shallow?

Truly, the most fun part of this post was laughing at these statues with clothes on them.  It's pretty great, don't you think? I would personally be a fan of people picking up this art, sculpting new age marble people with modern clothes. I would go to that museum. :P

Summertime Sadness

Summer classes,...

If you've ever taken one, you know what I'm talking about here. 

You get out of finals and you feel like you're free, but.....

then you realize you're actually stuck here for a while longer, but come on, it can't be that bad... Right?

Wrong... okay that's a lie, it could be enjoyable, but the one I got stuck in was like purgatory on earth.

I start at 12 pm, and go all the way till 7pm.  It's 3 hours of lecture, and 4 of lab everyday for three weeks.
It's so boring and really hard.
I was like, hey no problem, I can do this, but then I realized I get over a 100 slides everyday that I have to  memorize.

So, I went right to work. 

The professor said it wasn't a big deal,

After the first test, my grades weren't horrible, but they weren't great because turns out, instead of being nice and testing on the material he put in bold and highlighted he tested a lot on the little tiny words you need a magnifying glass to read.

So, I go, "There's a lot of material is there anyway we could focus our attention? What are you looking for exactly?"

and he responds, "Everything important is on the slides, just study those and you'll be fine."
well,....

that's kinda the LOT of material that I was TALKING ABOUT!!

Oh well, you can't do much.... so, I went back to work.
You'll be fine, they say,
Sure...

 

But, not only in lecture is there trouble,
I actually love lab.  Lab is great, I'm good at handling bacteria and all the lab type stuff we do, I'm good. The thing I tend to have a problem with is being traumatized by the educational videos that we're shown every time. 


We sit there and are scarred by the disturbing videos about diseases, and such things that over dramatize everything making you feel like you can't breath, eat, touch, look at, or do anything without getting a deadly infection, worm, or virus.  It's pretty terrible. 
so we sit there going,

 but it will be over, it's only three weeks, and I'll make it through, and be fine.  But if you ever wish to take a summer class, just stick it through it'll be okay, then you can be on your way and start the rest of your life without ever having to look back.

Nice knowin' ya, glad to see ya go! 

The Hottest Are Modest

So, a really good friend of mine today told me that girls should be modest, and he’s sad that they aren’t.  He said that most are at about a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 which was a pretty bad score in his opinion and so, like they say, curiosity killed the cat and I had to ask where I was on the scale.  I consider myself a pretty modest person.  I don’t wear short shorts,  I don’t wear skinny jeans, I wear modest swim suits and I don’t wear wear low cut shirts or tight clothes in general. So, I asked, and he told me that I was about a 7.  A 7! Well, that was my first reaction, then I Started wondering why.  His main thing was that my skirts sometimes came above my knee and there was a risk of them blowing in the wind.  Now… yes, my skirts have a chance of blowing in the wind, but so do long ones.  The only type of skirt that doesn’t have the chance of that is a long pencil skirt. which… I actually don’t own any of.  So, I was hurt to be honest, cause I thought I’d at least be a 8.5 if not a 9.  I mean, looking at that in grade wise, a 7 is a C-.  That’s failing by most standards.  So, yes, maybe this guy didn’t really know what he was talking about, but maybe he has a point.  What made him say a 7, when I thought I was around a 9.  What’s the difference here?  What does he see that I don’t?  I think as ladies this is a good question.  What do men see that we don’t.  The last thing we want is to be looked at as an object so we should be more concerned as to how we can keep that from happening.  

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying we should all wear frumpy ugly clothes.  I hate the frump as much as the next girl, but what’s really necessary?  When we dress a certain way, we’re inviting those around us to look at us in the way we present ourselves.  If we dress like we don’t care, then guys are going to look at us like we don’t care.  If you dress like football player, people are going to assume you play football.  So, if you dress like a slut, people will assume you act like one, and then you’ll find yourself being bombarded by rude comments and rude men who treat you badly.  If you don’t want to be treated badly, then don’t ask people to.  

Modesty isn’t only in how we dress though.  It is just as important in how we talk and how we hold ourselves.  You can wear long skirts, but still do things that cause me to more easily think bad things or subconsciously treat you differently.  I’m not excusing the men, they should be men, but how can we expect them to act appropriately if we can’t act that way ourselves.  Maybe you think you should be able to wear what you want, but if you don’t want people looking at your body, then don’t show it for heaven’s sake.  You’re only setting yourself on a huge vicious cycle of oxymorons.  

Looking at the way we talk is also a huge part in trying to figure out if we’re truly modest.  Now, no girl truly wants a guy to tell dirty jokes.  Most of them are gross and make you selfconcious, so, if we don’t want him to tell jokes like that, then we shouldn’t give him permission by talking dirty ourselves.  Bad language is often sexual and gives you a bad girl look, so, like 1 + 1= 2, f you don’t want to be a bad girl, don’t talk like one.  Majority of the time, guys only talk like that to impress the girls in how masculine they are, but if the girls aren’t impressed, the guys will simply have to find another way.  It’s simple mathematics.  

As Ladies, we need to be aware of how we present ourselves in general.  I’m pretty sure every girl is guilty of wanting to impress guys.  That’s good, and totally normal, but don’t be something that’s undesirable to find a guy.  in the end you’ll realize that the relationships you find by that are much more undesirable than being, heaven forbid, single.  But think about it, when you’re 30 and you have kids, do you want them cursing up a storm, dressing half naked to go to parties, and talking dirty?  It’d be sad, I think, for any mother to see her daughter grow up like that.  And do you really want you boys to talk dirty and treat women badly?  If not then don’t foster that in yourself, because your children will copy you whether they realize it or not.

It’s just something to think about.  How would your guys friend rate you on the scale?  And looking at that rating, where do you think you fall down in the modesty scale?  I’m not saying that guys can fully judge this because they can’t, but it’s something to keep in mind, because modesty is an important thing in today’s society if we want to find a good man, and be treated right.