Subliminal messages.......

Well interium is winding down (thank God) and soon I will be relaxing at home for a week....or cleaning my room....for a really long time cuz it is really a mess. ANNNNYYYway. I have three more essay questions to address on my takehome final exam. All and all not a bad run. Not that i am saying I would take Lutheran Heritage for a semester or anything. However for such as dry subject I have to say my prof. made quite a go at making it interesting. For example last night we enjoyed the cinematic masterpiece GroundHogs Day with Bill Murray. Written and produced by the same guys who did Ghostbusters, Stripes and Caddyshack (all personal favorites of mine) it is a great flick, even aside from the fact that Andi Mcdowwell co-stars...and as we all know that Andi Mcdowwell can't act worth a damn and her career has gone no where, the success of this movie is quite a truimph. Well, my prof. made the amazing connection between this movie and basic Lutheran ideologies, I am quite impressed. Alls well that ends well

Moving on

The days are swiftly moving by and we are fast approach my Anti-Valentines day extravaganza. As if you can't tell by the last couple of images attached to my blogs I am embracing this with much anticipation. So it is at this time I would like to bring you back to the days of your to first grade. You know when you used to get those cutesy little valentines in paper bags and it was mandatory for everyone to get everyone else a valentine or not at all. Ahh those were the days. You felt loved...now as you have gotten older it has become a popularity contest. A day to mock those rejected....roar. I would just like to contend that this popularity contest really began during those seemingly innocent exchanges in first grade. How you say? what about all that equal "don't hurt feelings" crap? its simple. Subliminal message. A good point and case this lovely little valentine.....

Hello, I'm Batman. When I was just a child, my parents were murdered right in front of my eyes. I made a solemn vow that day to commit my life to fighting crime. I've sacrificed my childhood and any efforts toward personal enjoyment. My nights are spent in deadly combat with everything from common street thugs to grotesque psychopaths. What little sleep I ever get is usually interrupted by horrible nightmares and my waking up soaked in sweat. I fight a war that can never be won. I strive toward a goal that can never be reached. I am haunted. I am relentless. I am tortured.
Won't you be my valentine?

What kind of person gives this card to a child....... hmm...Probably the same people who thought up this little gem.....



First thought: Awwww, what sweet little puppies.Second thought: you just know he's been licking himself with that tongue all day.



Are you starting to see this little trend because the subliminal messages keep coming..... Naked babies, pictures of little kids being forced to kiss here my friends we see that yes indeed the negative karma surrounding this day began loooooonnnnnnggg ago. Don't delude yourself that this holiday really has anything to do with a saint or love. Because it doesn't. Nooooo indeed it is just an excuse to indulge in the seven deadly sins......





Gluttony : all that candy...loads of chocolate and little candy hearts. This holiday is harvest time for dentists.

Sloth: Do you know that in many schools they actually take time away from education to support this holiday. Take a little time off of work for your 'loved one'....bull. If you really had a good relationship with your spouse you would not need to have some dictoral holiday to give you a reason to do something nice like go out to dinner, send flowers or say I love you. This should be done year round.

Lust: this is self-explanatory and for the sake of my mother and her delicate sensibilities concerning my commentary I will say no more, lest i become to um....crude.

Envy: Damn everyone and their valentines..... do people really need a visual to contending to their role as charlie Brown: the unloved awkward child...

Greed: Nooooo, people aren't satisfied with knowing that they have a significant other. They need it shown to them. Flowers, an expensive dinner, maybe some tiffany's jewelry AND a card....or there will be hell to pay.

Pride/Vanity: Thats right ladies and gentleman not only do you have to get a crap load of gifts, you need to parade the fact that you indeed are loved and have a boyfriend or girlfriend...Particularly out in the open where people who don't can see you

Wrath: AHhh yes my favorite....all of these other little sins build to wrath....My reaction to all of those snot-nosed little love birds out there who insist upon telling me every little detail of their happiness. meet the broud side of my louieville slugger.

Well that about does it for this little rant session....again all who disagree ...Bite me...save your comments and leave me rant my bitternss......

Public Safety : rebirth of the Gestapo....

Yeah I have to admit I thought I could get away with it, I thought gee what is a couple of days. Apparently it is a 25$ parking ticket issued by the defenders of peace and justice on St. Olaf Campus. Faster than an intoxicated student, able to run through leap over small rocks, Our protectors, Public safety (who I think were rejected from your average cop school), have taken it upon them selves to ticket every evil doer (like visiting siblings) who dares defies the unspoken rule of NO PARKING ANYWHERE ANYTIME UNLESS YOU HAVE PAID AN OUTRAGEOUS SUM WHICH IS PROBABLY BEING USED TO FUND THE PUBLIC SAFETY PIZZA FUND. These people are the top of their field, riding around in complementary little red jeeps....Busting 21 years olds for the dry campus policy and chasing down litterers. Now you would think that perhaps these people would be trying to stop the increased amount of campus burglaries. But no. They are too busy writing parking tickets. After my mp3 player was hijacked by some snot-nosed thief outside the cafeteria, I visited the head of public safety to demand action. They are after all the campus police. I requested a security camera outside of the cafeteria...They sent me to the cafeteria , who sent me to the administration, who sent me to student government, who sent me back to public safety...Who then told me it is not feasible with their budget right now. Ok..Fine how about you fire one of those worthless jackasses who ride around in their little red jeeps and do nothing but issue parking tickets to cars that are sitting in lots completely devoid of cars...He said maybe next year. Well..Here I sit two years later..No security camera and thefts are increasing outside the cafe. WHERE IS THE JUSTICE!..Apparently writing a ticket outside of my car.......

Wikipedia fountain and source of all knowledge....

I have the discovered where the tree of knowledge went to. It was scanned onto the internet and renamed Wikipedia. I swear this site has everything I would ever want to know. For example I discovered that Bruce Willis (action hero god), is actually a Missouri Synod Lutheran..ROCK ON. I knew there was a reason I enjoy his movies so much. I also stumbled upon a really exciting article about coffee. Now some of you may or may not know about my efforts to purge myself of my dependency upon coffee. I unfortunately had worked myself up to at least 5 or 6 cups in the morning alone. It seemed like i was not able to function if i didn't have a cup of java in my hand. It was only after I found myself reaching for my cup in my sleep and grabbing my alarm clock and trying to drink it instead, that I decided perhaps I should back down. Now I can handle my cofffee....really i can quit anytime i choose. .....ITS BEEN HELL. May i just say that yes you can experience withdrawal effects from coffee. I have had a headache for the last week....which is only relieved by taking a shot of espresso...well yesterday I made it through the entire day without having a cup...i drank tea instead...and i was miserable. This morning I am treating myself to a small cup of regular.....Tasty and i am feeling great. I just need to stay strong....Anyway I digress. Back to this article i found. I have selected three aspect that it covered particularly well. I have also included the link below......

Coffee
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.



Coffee is a drink, usually hot, prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. These seeds are usually called coffee beans, although they are not technically beans. Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world, trailing only petroleum. Coffee is one of humanity's chief sources of caffeine, a stimulant. Its potential benefits and hazards have been, and continue to be, widely studied and discussed.

Benefits
Coffee increases the effectiveness of pain killersÂ?especially migraine medicationsÂ?and can rid some people of asthma. Some of the beneficial effects may be restricted to one sex, for instance it has been shown to reduce the occurrence of gallstones and gallbladder disease in men. Coffee intake may reduce one's risk of diabetes mellitus type 2 by up to half. While this was originally noticed in patients who consumed high amounts (7 cups a day), the relationship was later shown to be linear (Salazar-Martinez 2004).
Coffee can also reduce the incidence of cirrhosis of the liver and prevent colon and bladder cancers. Coffee can reduce the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, a variety of liver cancer (Inoue, 2005). Also, coffee reduces the incidence of heart disease, though whether this is simply because it rids the blood of excess fat or because of its stimulant effect is unknown. At the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2005, chemist Joe Vinson of the University of Scranton presented his analysis showing that for Americans, who as a whole do not consume large quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables, coffee represents by far the largest source of valuable antioxidants in the diet.[4]
Coffee contains the anticancer compound methylpyridinium. This compound is not present in significant amounts in other food materials. Methylpyridinium is not present in raw coffee beans but is formed during the roasting process from trigonellin, which is common in raw coffee beans. It is present in both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee, and even in instant coffee. 6
Coffee is also a powerful stimulant for peristalsis and is sometimes considered to prevent constipation; it is also a diuretic.
Many people drink coffee for its ability to increase short term recall and increase IQ. It also changes the metabolism of a person so that their body burns a higher proportion of lipids to carbohydrates, which can help athletes avoid muscle fatigue.
Some of these health effects are realized by as little as 4 cups a day (24 U.S. fl oz, 700 mL), but others occur at 5 or more cups a day (32 U.S. fl oz or 0.95 L or more).
Some controversy over these effects exists, since by its nature coffee consumption is associated with other behavioral variables. Therefore it has been variously suggested that the cognitive effects of caffeine are limited to those who have not developed a tolerance, or to those who have developed a tolerance and are caffeine-deprived.
Practitioners in alternative medicine often recommend coffee enemas for "cleansing of the colon" due to its stimulus of peristalsis, although mainstream medicine has not proved any benefits of the practice.

Risks
Many notable effects of coffee are related to its caffeine content.
Many coffee drinkers are familiar with "coffee jitters", a nervous condition that occurs when one has had too much caffeine. Coffee can also increase blood pressure among those with high blood pressure, but follow-up studies showed that coffee still decreased the risk of dying from heart disease in the aggregate. Coffee can also cause insomnia in some, while paradoxically it helps a few sleep more soundly. It can also cause anxiety and irritability, in some with excessive coffee consumption, and some as a withdrawal symptom. There are also gender-specific effects, in some PMS sufferers it increases the symptoms, and it can reduce fertility in women, also it may increase the risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, and there may be risks to a fetus if a pregnant woman drinks 8 or more cups a day (48 U.S. fl oz or 1.4 L or more).
A February 2003 Danish study of 18,478 women linked heavy coffee consumption during pregnancy to significantly increased risk of stillbirths (but no significantly increased risk of infant death in the first year). "The results seem to indicate a threshold effect around four to seven cups per day," the study reported. Those who drank eight or more cups a day (48 U.S. fl oz or 1.4 L) were at 220% increased risk compared with nondrinkers. This study has not yet been repeated, but has caused some doctors to caution against excessive coffee consumption during pregnancy.
Decaffeinated coffee is occasionally regarded as a potential health risk to pregnant women, due to the high incidence of chemical solvents used to extract the caffeine. These concerns have almost no basis, however, as the solvents in question evaporate at 80�90 °C, and coffee beans are decaffeinated before roasting, which occurs at approximately 200 °C. As such, these chemicals, namely trichloroethane and methylene chloride, are present in trace amounts at most, and neither pose a significant threat to unborn children. Women still worried about chemical solvents in decaffeinated coffee should opt for beans which use the Swiss water process, where no chemicals other than water are used, although higher amounts of caffeine remain.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a study in 2004 which tried to discover why the beneficial and detrimental effects of coffee are conflicting. The study concluded that consumption of coffee is associated with significant elevations in biochemical markers of inflammation. This is a detrimental effect of coffee on the cardiovascular system, which may explain why coffee has so far only been shown to help the heart at levels of four cups (20 fl oz or 600 mL) or fewer per day.
The health risks of decaffeinated coffee have been studied, with varying results. One variable is the type of decaffeination process used; while some involve the use of organic solvents which may leave residual traces, others rely on steam.
A study has shown that cafestol, a substance which is present in boiled coffee drinks, dramatically increases cholesterol levels, especially in women. Filtered coffee only contains trace amounts of cafestol


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_(drink)

Art Historians are the devil........

I received my grades this morning and critiques from CMRS. HA ....well grades i did well on and am fairly proud of....however I have found out that in the case of this particular program I was on they do NOT count in my grade point....ROAR. This is slightly irritating since they would have raised it darnit. Bitter irony rules my life. Watch this next semester will probably wreck havoc upon my gradepoint forcing me to drop out and become a hermit in south America with a only grub worms and a card board box to rely on. An exaggeration....Well maybe. This being said I also would like to take this opportunity to rant about one of my teachers who shall remain nameless *cough Athene *. This woman and I didn't get along. Which is weird because usually its other students I clash with, if at all. She claimed that i didn't listen to her. I have never had a teacher who said that about me. If fact quite to the contrary that is one of the qualities most of my teachers appreciate. I have been guilty of not paying attention. Usually this occurred in high school and most notably in math and Spanish class (so I was reading .....Who needs math anyway). However when it comes to listening, particularity one on one, about a subject I am definitely interested in I am eager to hear a teachers thoughts. THATS WHY I AM PAYING YOU ....TO TEACH ME. not the other way around. She apparently didn't get this...and I quote..."She (as in me), could consider whether her eagerness to share her own ideas interferes a bit with her ability to listen to other ideas and perspectives" WHAT IS THIS CRAP? ha. Listen I am sure this comment sprung from the last time i had the umm....pleasure of her company. We took a field trip to the Ashmolen art museum to look at Italian Renaissance work of all things.....(by the way this class was entitled Caroloingian and Romanesque Art and Architecture...so it makes sense we would go and study art work that occured centuries later). I made a comment to the effect of how interesting it was that one of these artist used a particularly bright color in the background of one of his painting which through off perspective. She countered with that there was no possible way he could have known about color perspective (however this artist was the father of line perspective....could it be possible he saw some sort of connection...a possibility) I was saying it was fact i was throwing in an observation...one that she didn't agree with. And when i tried to make clear that this comment was merely an observation she got uber pissed with me....Hence....the negative comment. Woo.......Ok...I am done with my rant. It is over and done with I got my grade and I am done with her lot....On to bigger and better things......Like hmm.....cofffee . well must go to class now...will update later on.

Well can you blame me.....

so even I have to admit rereading my last entry that I was hmmm....well...as my dear friend megan would say a tad bit abrasive.....I apologize if i offended any delicate sensibilities out there....NEXT TIME I'LL JUST BEAT THEM TO DEATH WITH A BROKEN BOTTLE! ENOUGH RED FOR YOU VALENTINES DAY JUNKIES!!!!!!

*cough*

I'm sorry. I don't know what got into me. I suppose these...lets can them Outbursts....happen from time to time. This is probably why my mother has been a bit selective in handing out my blog to relatives and family friends. She often likes to remind me that she is my mother not a friend and therefore i should probably develop a little restraint over my comments. This came after i announced to her and my sister over the car phone that I had to hang up so i could go find my bra (I had just gotten out of the shower and was waltzing about in a towel). Apparently this offended HER delicate sensibilities.....Its not like I do that with everyone...just those I know who will love me for whom i am...wa ahahaha ha.....its hard to come up with a response to that.

ooooooo, I almost forgot! Well over the weekend I made an important choice....after throughly crushing my glasses into nothingness the week before (yeah i stepped on them...through a horrible chain of events.....former roomies and family members will understand what i mean when i say chain of events). any way ....I no longer have my signature plastic buddy hollyesq frames...oh no i am now very chic....I have a sensitive metal Ralph Lauren non-reflective scratch resistant....pair of glasses....ha.....cough...yes well...i just thought i would share with the world.....yes i understand that i A) really have nothing interesting to say and B) am rather pathetic by pretending I do....Well hell i am not forcing you to read the darn blog anyway.....

and now for your daily moment of humor......

Top Warning Signs of Insanity

-Your friends tell you that you have been acting strange lately, and then you hit them several times with a sledgehammer.
-Everyone you meet appears to have tentacles growing out of places thatyou wouldn't expect tentacles to be growing from.
-You start out each morning with a 30-minute jog around the bathroom.
-You write to your mother in Germany every week, even though she sends you mail from Iowa asking why you never write.
-Every time you see a street sign, you have a tremendous urge to relieve yourself on it.
-You wear your boxers on your head because you heard it will ward of evil dandruff spirits.
-You're always having to apologize to your next door neighbor for setting fire to his lawn decorations.
-Every commercial you hear on the radio reminds you of death.
-People stay away from you whenever they hear you howl.
-Your breath smells more and more like squirrel dung each passing day.
-You laugh out loud during funerals.
-Nobody listens to you anymore, because they can't understand you through that scuba mask.
-You begin to stop and consider all of the blades of grass you've stepped on as a child, and worry that their ancestors are going to one day seek revenge.
-You have meaningful conversations with your toaster.
-Your father pretends you don't exist, just to play along with your little illusion.
-You collect dead windowsill flies.
-Everytime the phone rings, you shout, "Hey! An angel just got its wings!"
-You like cats. Especially with mayo.
-You scream "I've got a knife!" to people who try to sell you things.
-You scream "I've got a knife!" to people at your family reunion.
-You cry at the end of every episode of Gilligan's Island, because they weren't rescued.
-You put tennis balls in the microwave to see if they'll hatch.
-Whenever you listen to the radio, the music sounds backwards.
-You have a predominant fear of fabric softener.
-You wake up each morning and find yourself sitting on your head in the middle of your front lawn.
-Your dentist asks you why each individual tooth has your name etched onit, and you tell him it's for security reasons.

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t-minus 23 more days...............