Long, tiring day.

[silveradept]

Storytime, a craft supervision, and a four hour desk shift. No wonder I'm tired. But it was a great day all around. Storytime seemed to work well, as I told two of the three stories today, one with a very cute pigeon puppet. I couldn't see reactions, but the kids sat still, so no news is good news, I suppose. And the other storyteller tells me I have a knack for it and that I'm doing well, so maybe all this practice in making myself look silly is paying off.

Things that make one glad to be a journalist. Not that G.W. Bush actually makes a suggestion that might indicate a modicum of intelligence, or at least, thought, but that he uses an expletive to describe the situation. My question is: What took him so long to publicly be cussing out bad situations?

The government doesn't like having citizens be able to find out about itself, as it has awarded a $1 million check to researchers with the mandate of figuring out how to limit the Freedom of Information Act. Big brother is watching, indeed. Perhaps we'll be seeing Ubik's type of dystopia, if this article about recommendations that many more people be given psychiatric drugs for their newly acquired/diagnosed/retconned mental illnesses. Credibility is a little questionable, with the rant against allopathic medicine at the very end. Decide for yourself. On the technological front of BBIW, be careful how you upgrade your computer, or HD/Blu-Ray won't play at full resolution and size. When did copy protection become more important that user satisfaction?

Most people who study Japan and animation have heard of maid cafes (the staff, all female, dress as maids in short skirts), and perhaps, the butler cafes and the no-pants cafes, as well. Well, now there are nun cafes. Yep, one for every fetish, I'd say.

Lat link for tonight - Bert rocket races. Something in me just cries "Yes!" upon reading this.

Comments

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

There is something wonderful about those Bert rockets.

[silveradept]

Isn't there, though? It's like giving form to our inner mad scientist.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

the kids were sitting wthing the pidgeon with rapt atention...they loved it you. :D Really, you do an excellent job at storytelling. I completely forgot that it was storytelling day when I decided to walk over, but I'm glad I did.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) ('no-pants cafés'? *blink* *blink*)

(...visions of people launching character-shaped rockets and shooting them in/out of the air are filling our mindspace...)

[silveradept]

No-pants cafes - the female staff walks around with no underclothes on, and the floors are mirrored.

One thinks of having a rocket derby with said characters.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

....what about the male staff?!

[silveradept]

If there are male staff, which I highly doubt, they are likely pantsless, too. But such places are usually an all-female staff because of the clientele that comes in.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see the male staff in kilts, thanks....

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) *blink... blink...*

Hmm. 'derby'... *checks Wikipedia and Google* What does that mean, in the context?

[silveradept]

Derby in the same style as Kentucky Derby - a race.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) Ahh. Vertical, or at least partly horizontal?

[silveradept]

For distance, probably horizontal. For accuracy and/or height, vertical races. Should be fun seeing who could get through a suspended ring the fastest.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) *nods*

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Bert Races....priceless.

So the president used a cuss word. Who bloody gives a damn? i would think it was more important what he said, than how he said it.

re: mental illness article - So, the president wants to have all children medicated? Do the parents get a say in this? Of course, being prescribed a med and actually taking it are two different things. I really think that a lot of doctors/teachers/parents have been leaning a bit too heavily on the ADD/ADHD/OMG GIVE MY KID RIDDALIN/PROZAC/ETC for years now, and if they would actually *gasp* talk to their children, they might find a different type of problem. It's been a proven fact that kids who are bored in class because it's too easy for them wind up being the kids who act up and/or do poorly because they don't bother putting an effort into work. They don't have ADD, they're just CHILDREN. Drugging children is NOT the answer, nor is just passing out random drugs to adults. I will admit that there is a percentage of the population who genuinely need drugs in order to function/have a normal life...but I bet it's a small percentage out of the number of folks on psyc meds.

...and i never hit post. ooops.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) *Simpsons memory: 'Dad, I know I have problems, but drugs are not the answer!'*

[silveradept]

We agree that content should triumph message. If anything, people should be saying, "Wow, he's serious, because he cursed."

And we definitely agree that medication is not the answer. Because I'd have been a candidate for such things, had my parents believed in them. But rather than coming back as developmentally disabled, the tests showed that my "weakness", if there was such a thing, was that I read at a third grade level or so. In second grade. If they had skipped the test and gone straight to the drugs, I'd have turned out a lot differently, that's for sure. Instead of entertaining children my age with pigeon antics, I'd probably be a drudge somewhere.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I think nearly any child who is "smarter" than their peers gets pegged for drugs...and I really think they do more damage than help in those kinds of kids. It was once suggested that I was learning impared because of how bored Iwas in class...and like you, it was because I belonged in a higher level class than I was in. Thre was really nothing to be done about it, either, short of bussing me out to the middle school for "Language Arts" because I was reading the fifth grade books in second grade. Oi, i sure gave my teachers a run for their money...I read "Gone With The Wind" in 6th grade.

Glad your parents didn't agree with the drugs, I think you're excellent at entertaining children, and i look forward to watching you do it some more.