The Job

Okay, can I just tell you how much I love my job? I honestly have the best job in the world and I still laugh whenever I remember all the education majors (and education professors) back in BG who told me I would go into student teaching and change my mind and become a teacher after all. HA! I would never give this up, and I guarantee you they're all stressed out right now with students/grading/lesson plans, etc. And me? I'm blissed out.

Picture this. I'm in a huge beautiful (new!) room. I have music playing since I'm alone. To my left is a huge wall of windows where I have a view of the mountains and some palm trees. In front of me I have two of my favorite things: Macs and books. I have a brand-spanking-new iMac. Well, okay, actually I have three with another 20 in the room, but those are technically for the students. I also have almost 7,000 books at my disposal. Can you hear my squeal of delight? I'm checking out books like mad and just basically drool on my books all day. But you know what the best part is? I'm not even the person at the school who has checked out the most books this year! Can you believe it? There are students here who LIKE TO READ. I know, I almost died of shock too. And finally there are my esteemed coworkers. Could there be a better group? I'm just seriously in heaven. 

Is this McDonalds? Cuz I'm Lovin' It.
This is so Visa--Everywhere you want to be. 

(sorry, quoting some of more idiotic books I have read this year)

Movie Ratings

Alright, so I know I'm way behind the times, but I just watched This Film Is Not Yet Rated and wow. There was this one guy, and no I can't remember who it was because my memory is God-awful, but he said the most intelligent thing ever. He said that if you make a movie and you show tons of people getting shot and killed but you don't show the blood, then it's fine and it will get like PG or PG-13. If, however, you show people getting shot and then show blood and guts, then you get at least an R rating. Well, he suggested that it should be the exact opposite. If kids today are to realize that violence is bad, then they need to see the consequences of violence. If every time someone is beaten, stabbed, or shot in a movie and they show the real consequences and gore and just plain nastiness that comes from it then they'll really understand violence and it should be those films who never show what happened after that guy got shot that should be restricted from view. 

How simple and how smart is that?