No more posts. The end.

This is going to be my last post for a while. Not that there are a ton of people that visit this blog (cause there aren't). But I'm so focused on music right now. I just don't do this kind of thing anymore. When I have free time I'm @ home practicing, listening to music, or trying to learn more about it. (That is of course if I'm not chilling with friends or riding my bike). I know that it sounds like something I should have been doing all along.

And I was. I've been practicing clarinet since I was twelve. But...recently I got this burst of inspiration and a strong need to put all of myself into art. And right now I'm exploring every single angle of music I can. I'm going to more concerts than I can keep track of. I'm constantly discovering new things in music. Right now is such an exciting time. Unfortunately, I just don't feel the need to share it in this blog any longer. This blog has taken some hard bouts of neglect from its authors in the past. Currently neither author is posting on it very much. I've lost interest in doing this. So I'm not shutting down this blog just yet. But I don't plan on posting any further for a long time. Sorry Gwenn! I love you and I'll still check out your blog. But I think it's hasta la vista el blog for a while if not forever.

Been a while...

So things have been busy and sometimes I forget why I even started a blog. I was so into it...I don't know what happened. Lately I've had one thing after another. This weekend is the first break I've had from anything. Everyday, even weekends, I've been preparing for recitals, concerts, auditions, competitions, boards, rehearsals, on and so forth. I also had weekend classes and tons of other commitments. It happens. I loved it and hated it.

I guess the only way I could cope with all the tremendous demands I had to meet was to isolate myself, practice as much as I could, devour reeds like four year old with a Chocolate bunny three days before Easter (I used to dig in my grandmother's pantry before big holidays), and exercise A LOT.

Oh Vlady

I LOVE Vladimir Ashkenazy's shirt. In fact, I want it. I want to know where he got that kickass shirt. I love Sibelius and that shirt is just SO COOL. Have I mention yet how much I like this shirt?

This kid is so lucky because:

When I was his age (5 yrs old) I didn't even know what a clarinet was. And to be honest, I didn't even know what one looked like till I was 11. Anyway, I think it's great that youngsters are being exposed to music.

home...

Spring Break was great! It was everything I wanted it to be and more. I spent a majority of my time either taking long walks for miles and miles outdoors, playing x-box with my brother, catching up on cable programming from the past year and a half, hanging with my OKC/ Norman friends, long talks with family members.

It was great. One of my favorite moments was on a long walk through the Faircloud trails with my dad. Faircloud is the edition my parents live in and my dad showed me a secret path I'd never seen before. I must have road past it a million times on my bike or roller blades during the 12 years I lived there and I ALWAYS missed it. And it's not really too hidden. It was about 7am and we were talking about different things...and I just remember how good it felt. My dad has lost a lot of weight. I'm SO proud of him. SO has my mom. But she's ALWAYS looked fantastic in my opinion. And my opinion is right when it comes to my beautiful mother. Anyway, it was the best time I've ever had with my family. I'm really glad I went home instead of to the Golan Heights in Israel, surprisingly enough.

But the best part about leaving it all behind and coming back to school is my comfy warm bed...the one thing I missed in OK was good sleep.

UN Nightmare

Home...

I just can't wait to be on the flight home already.

Polar Bears, Pop, and Current Events

Don't drink Coca Cola like this ad tells you! Drink Pepsi instead.....

Actually, I don't drink carbonated beverages unless it is in a mixed drink. All the same, I am currently boycotting Coca Cola until they stop "pouring bad business ethics on Israeli recycling laws".

Check it out at treehugger: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/cocacola_pours.php

Apparently Coca Cola doesn't want to continue shelling out the 5 cents per bottle to recycle and would rather trample Israeli law than throw away a measily $5 to recycle 100 plastic bottles. That's $50 to recycle 1000 bottles etc. The process helps keep Israel clean and beautiful. When I was in Israel I never saw waste or trash on the ground anywhere. For the most part it was very clean. If you think about it Israel is a tiny little country comparible in size to about 17 Rhode Islands and has about 7 times the population. They recycle at least 80 percent of recyclable waste. Not half bad. But Coca Cola, one of the largest distributers of carbonated beverages is getting selfish and brown when it comes to the little Jewish state's laws. Personally, I can drink something else if Cola intends to be so ungreen and so mean.

Another note: Coca Cola's Favorite Spokesman, the Polar Bear, is Now on the Endangered Species List
A summary of what's happening: The sea ice is melting away. Polar bear NEED the sea ice. They can swim long distances for long periods of time, but they need to take breaks. With less and less ice, polar bears swim for longer distances for longer amounts of time. Lately, a lot of polar bears haven't been making it and consequently have been drowning. They've also been losing weight. Less fat means less insulation, meaning that some female polar bears may not have enough insulation to carry baby bears to term. Sad isn't it? Scientists predict all the sea ice well vanish by 2040. But the polar bears will be long gone by then. And what does the Bush administration think? They think you shouldn't know about it. According to the New York Times, memos being circulated at the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service place a gag order on employees in order to keep them from discussing polar bears. The government is forbidding biologists from discussing “climate change, polar bears or sea ice if they are not designated to do so.”

Check out the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/washington/08polar.html?_r=1&ref=washington&oref=slogin



Save the Polar Bear? You sure can! Some of these websites contain prewritten emails to important government figures and all you have to do is type in some info and click a button on your mouse and you already did something incredibly helpful for the polar bear. He'll thank you in 2040:

http://www.polarbearsos.org/?gclid=CL2N6La_6ooCFQgTWAodMEgMqA
http://www.worldwildlife.org/polarbears/
http://www.earthplace.org/about_earthplace/support.html
http://action.environmentaldefense.org/campaign/polar_bears_list?qp_source=searchpolarbears
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/arctic/polar_bear/index.cfm
http://www.projectthinice.org/
http://www.savebiogems.org/polar/

Happy IWD!

Today is International Women's Day. Be excited ladies! You get your own special holiday just for being a woman! I say celebrate. Celebrate the sexy, smart, amazing, woman that you are. And men, celebrate women too. You wouldn't be here if it weren't for one.

To learn a little more about IWD check out the official website : http://www.internationalwomensday.com
The website contains a great timeline about the history of IWD and how women's lives have changed over the past century.

I also recommend learning more about women from different parts of the world that are currently struggling for their freedoms.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2941.shtml
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21236
http://allafrica.com/stories/200703050855.html

Simplest things

The simplest things in life are the things that are the most amazing.

Yesterday a guy gave me pistachios because he was happy he finally got his laptop to connect with the wireless. That made my day yesterday. I thought how interesting it was that just a simple joy made him want to share it somehow with others.

I ran into a couple people that I know and haven't seen in a while today. It's so pleasant to see old friends...

Speaking of seeing old friends... Can't wait. ;)

VAGINA

Three highschool girls were suspended for saying the word "vagina" while reading a feminist play, the Vagina Monolgues.







Article: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=bizarre&id=5099458

First of all, if they didn't say VAGINA I want to know what they did say. PENIS? or BEAVER? or PUSSY? What exactly were they supposed to say? And why would an anti-feminism highschool board allow the performance of a feminist play that so obviously concentrates on female sexuality? This I don't understand. This is an obvious attempt at censorship and a pretty obvious rejection of feminism. It's a pitty such ignoramuses run high schools.

First of all, VAGINA is a perfectly suitable word for the community to hear. Half of all children have them, all children come out of them, and the community includes vagina-havers among its members. So....why censor it? Oh yes. Not everyone has one. Jealous are we?

Vagina Monologues: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/ensler/vm/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vagina_Monologues

V-day: http://www.vday.org/peace_vmailsplash.html

Please watch this!!!!!
video of eve ensler performing her play herself: http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=e_ensler

THEEND

UGHHHH! I am SO sick of school. I can't wait for it to be over. I really did very well this quarter up until this week. I can't wait to go home. It's all that's on my mind besides men. And that's always on my mind being that I'm 21 years old and constantly...um...something. So anyway, I was doing great. And then this week I just fell apart. I have 4 papers due, three concerts, a lesson, like 4 more rehearsals, a final, and probably something else. I'm just gonna explode. I don't really know if I can survive the next 7 days.

I think I can I think I can I think I can

I've been slacking in a few classes... actually, a few areas of my life, as of late. My room is a mess, and has been for weeks. My car needs to be clean and the oil needs to be changed. Econ needs a lot of work, and so does Soil. I haven't worked out in so long. And Spring Break plans need to be finalized, I need to make my portfolio, I need to write the firms in San Diego, and I need to find out my living situations next year. A lot of these things I can't do much about until further notice, but all the same... there's a lot of fine tuning that I need to do. It's time for some motivation!!!

Boo Grey's

So last night my friend Yafit came over to watch Grey's Anatomy with me, but alas we were surprised by the unfortunate rerun. I couldn't take it, so we left and went to Meijer. Yafit wanted some hairdye and I wanted to get some food for the fridge. It gets hungry. What can I say?

Anyway, the deli was closed. Boo. But...they did have some persimmons. So I got as many as I possibly could. I LOVE persimmons. I was introduced to them last year by my teachers best-friend, Laura. She's a clarinetist out in FL. Anyway, I believe she came into Ixi's house carrying a carton of persimmons and I implied, "What's wrong with your tomatos?"

Anyway, persimmons are a fruit. They are a delicacy. They are almost gone.

And meanwhile, it is gorgious outside. I love waking up before my alarm clock because my apartment is flooded with the warm orangey glow of sunlight. My bedroom window faces West. But there's a window in the living room directly opposite that faces East. It's a lot easier to get up early in the mornings if it's not dark as night outside.

P.S. I am going to a Purim costume party this weekend. What should I dress up as?

Goodies

So my current phone is going...going...dying...almost....dead. The battery works alright. But the phone itself is not really functioning. The ear phone really sucks so a lot of times in order to hear someone I have to put them on speaker phone. It constantly dies suddenly or drops my calls (which is more than likely a Cingular problem). It gets pretty shitty reception and it used to rock. And it's supposed to take pictures but then they always come out blurry or messed up after I save them. Anyway, the phone is old. It's seen good times and bad times. And now it's going to be retired. For a beautiful new w300i!!!!!

Cloud Facts

Definition: a cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body.

Study of clouds: nephology

A droplet of moisture in a cloud is about .01mm in diameter. It takes billions of droplets to make a cloud. There are three ways to make a cloud: 1) air is cooled below its saturation point. This happens when the air comes in contact with a cold surface, like a cold front. 2) when two air masses below saturation point mix. Examples are breath on a cold day, aircraft contrails and Arctic sea smoke. 3) The air stays the same temperature but absorbs more water vapor into it until it reaches saturation point.

So why does it rain? Well, the best I can do to explain it as simply as possible is that something happens inside the cloud and the present droplets start to make even more droplets or ice crystals and fall from the cloud and melt, and you can only assume that if they don't melt then we get snow etc.

The color of cloud tells you whats going on inside of it. It doesn't really take a brainiac to figure it out though. If a cloud looks dark and ominious you can safely assume that more than likely a certain size droplet is forming rapidly...and melting on it's way down....etc.

Bottom line: I really wish it weren't cloudy outside. But obviously I can't do anything about it. Boo.

The Weekend Review

This weekend had a great kickoff with active civil disobedience, a birthday dinner, close friends, some hookah and vodka, and unfortunately...Salad Fingers.

My friends, Gary and Nate, were mean enough to go to www.fat-pie.com/salad once everyone had some hookah. It's technically a deranged cartoon of a sick character called "Salad Fingers" that has a thing for rusty spoons. Whoever made these sick videos had to be on crack or needs to be locked up. I totally believe in freedom of speech...but that doesn't necessarily mean I need to know about this stuff. It's just creepy and wrong. But aside from that smoking hookah, knocking back vodka with crazy Israeli friends and debating liberal vs. radical feminism was a great kickoff to the weekend.

Crazy/Fun Friends

Saturday the highlight was the CSO concert with Jimmy followed by The Departed followed by a debate of Godfather vs. Departed. Excellent.

Sunday: biking, running, and strength training followed by a call home, practice, FOOD, and probably a DHW gathering at mi casa, followed by a prompt Good Night. And then...another week of....CCM.....

the truth

Film Review: An Inconvenient Truth
I had been wanting to see this film for a while but I had to get on a waitlist with Netflix so I opted to wait till it was more available. Since the summer, I've been reading up a lot on Global Warming or what I call "Anthropogenic Climate Change". I prefer that name better than "Global Warming" because it inferrs that the damage being done to this planet is being inflected by the human race, primarily the part of the human race living north of the equator...

And Al Gore emphasizes the same point. The film is great. I think it's a great tool for informing people of what global warming is, why it's a climate crisis, and what needs to be done to halt it, and what we can do individually to help in the fight to save the planet.

GREAT WEBSITES:

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

http://www.onetonco2.com/index.php

http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm

check out CFLs: this is one huge way to save lots of $$$$ and lbs of CO2
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/page.cfm?tagid=483&campaign=mts

http://zerofootprint.net/

http://www.seventhgeneration.com/index.php

http://www.truthout.org/index.htm

Israel yafeh meod!

My favorite chaverim: Debbie and Idan!
View of Yaffo from Tel-Aviv beach:
Vender selling sesame treats or b'ivrit "sum sum matok":
Underneath a Chabad outside the Kotel and down the street from Chadaya:
Camel ride in the Negev:

Taylor'd for a Graceful Legacy

This is my mom's beautiful pup. It was supposed to be Ned's, but as always, the dogs bond to her instead... and it doesn't help that Ned is on travel most of the time.

So this is him. At 4 months. 40 lbs. He'll be about 80 lbs of pure power. A massive pooch, yeah?

So I would post pictures that I have taken, but Nooooooo. Those pictures are lost. Gone. You don't understand what I do with pictures! I treasure them. And I keep my little disposable camera for months, and pull it out on a random, memorable occasion and take a picture. And they are lost. Gosh. Freaking. Darn. It.

Oh well... I'll just have to get batteries for my digital.

Green Thumbalina

On Sunday it was gorgious and sunny outside, so I ventured ouside of my apartment and took a trip with Rachel *pictured below* to Home Depot.
I felt that I desperately needed some life in my apartment. It's been snowy, icey, and grey outside for about a month. Not being able to be outdoors and being cooped up inside all the time and not being able to see the grass started to become pretty depressing so I got some plants.
They really brought some life into the apartment. I bought a lot of primroses in different colors: orange and red with yellow in the middle, some cacti, and some "folliage" (sp?) as well as simple pots to put them in. Makes a huge difference. And it's even becoming warmer outside. Very nice changes! These plants have also sparked an old interest of mine: Botany (a topic Lady G and I loved studying in high school).

Here are some links to some interesting plant sites: http://plants.usda.gov/
http://www.botany.com/
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/

Spring Break

I'm looking forward to Spring Break.
I'm coming home to OK. I think I'm leaving Wednesday March 14th, in the a.m. And I don't plan on coming back to Cincinnati till March 24th or 25th. I can't wait! I can't wait to see my friends and family. I can't wait to see Oklahoma. Go biking. Practice in my bedroom. Etc. I need to get some warm weather.

Yisrael...

View from the top of Tzipuri

rachov yehudim: (translation) Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem

Top of a wall outside of Tzion Gate: the glass is to keep people from climbing. Built in security system.

Masada: King Herod's cistern

A Thousand Words...

I am going to try to get back to my former love of photography. Nothing huge, but I want to do something here and there... even if it's with a disposable camera (undoctored) --->

There's this album that I'm also getting in to... just testing it out right now, but I really like it. Can you guess what it is?

Justin Timberlake's Future Sex Love Sounds.

Yeah. That's right.

Visualization Board

I know this is going to sound "hokey" (sp?) but I have a Project 2A: a Visualizatin Board.
I got the idea from watching a DVD called The Secret (http://thesecret.tv/) which I had heard about on Oprah (http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200702/tows_past_20070208.jhtml) and had to watch in my Sports Psych. class. The Secret focuses on the Law of Attraction. Essentially, the idea is that you attract things to yourself in some way or another. And if you know this you can use it to your advantage. The way this tied into Sports Psych. was that in sports psychology (mainly Psychological Training Skills- PST) people have to have motivation and goals in order to have the results they want. And one of the strongest tools of successful people is imagery: being able to clearly and vividly see what you want. And James Cambell, the author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, had a board hanging in his office. He had pictures of the things he wanted to see in his life. There was a picture of the house he wanted. A picture of a family. All sorts of things. And years later he dug up the board and he found that he had all the things that he had taped to his board. I'm not saying it's magic or anything silly. I just think that because he had a clear tangible vision of what he wanted he was able to maintain his focus, remember his motivation, and attain his goals.

So I've accomplished Project 2A: empty corkboard.

Project 2B: put something on it. have a clear vision.

An End to A Week

This weekend I plan on having one of these kinds of weekends --->

So I went to pick up my disposable black and white pictures that I've been looking forward to getting for the past 4 days, and they couldn't find them. They were supposed to call me back today, and they haven't... It really makes me sad. So hopefully they'll find them because some pictures you just can't replace.

TGIF

All the snow days are over and slowly the ice and snow are melting. Very slowly. At the rate it's going the extra H2O will be frozen in some form or another till spring.

I wish I could take credit for this photo. But my friend Travis took it. Very gorgious. Anyway, I only have one class today and I think it's going to kill me. I'm out of cat food. Boo. And I need some other things. Which means....I have to run errands...I don't mind running errands very much. What gets to me is usually the amount of money I end up spending. Whenever I go through the check out line I always end up ditching three things from my basket before half my things are even rung up...Instinct perhaps? And then once I get home it's a chore to carry all the bags in. It's not like I have a garage. I have a parking lot with ice-covered snow 7 inches thick. And it's between 1-11 degrees F. Not fun. But...it's nice to have shampoo and cat food etc. At least, the cat thinks so.

Cheeseball Day

I saw this card. I enjoyed the humor....


Anyway, I was talking to my friend Debbie yesterday about the pending doom of V-day. Pretty much we agreed that on some sort of terms V-day is a day for all the "cheeseballs" to come out and be themselves. All those people who secretly desire to let their cheesiness reign and reek havoc on the world. I'll be completely honest, as a child my only connection to V-day was the candy. I hated pink and red. And the combination of the two was really a bit too cheeseball for me. But V-day was like a second Halloween...without the awesome costumes. And you have to admit the cheeseballs come out of the woodwork. Heart shaped boxes of chocolates, powdery/sugary candy, teddy bears holding hearts, and childrens cards with lolipops. It's so cheeseball. It's so American. It's so....cheesy!

Life's game.

I just took a test in a class that I know nothing about. But a lot of the questions are similar questions to the quizzes, exercises, and reviews... so if I memorize how to do those problems, I'll know how to give the answers on the test. I'll know how to pull of the class.

So what's the lesson here?

Play it right.

Life is a game in the sense that you have to play it right. It can be a gamble, but if you think smart, you can act smart. And therefore, you can be smart.

Trolls

Sometimes when I'm down or something is getting to me my mom says, "Don't let the trolls get ya down." Well...today was a Munday not a Monday. And the trolls definitely tackled me today.

the cheer factor: http://www.lileks.com/institute/index.html James Lileks is insanely hilarious and sharp. And the Official Institute of Cheer is a no fail cure for any frown.

Death To Answering Machine

Problem: it works.

Symptoms: excessive voicemail pileages; over-usage; voicemails containing expressions of distaste for getting voicemail; phone operator incapable of answering damn phone which is why operator has damn phone so why have damn phone if you're not going to answer damn phone!

Cause of death: stressed caller.

Time of death: 1:00 am, Monday, Feb. 12, 2007.

Hey, You thought it. I just posted it.

Project 1A

Project 1A: Refurbishing Vintage sterio cabinet
I plan on taking this wonderful piece of furniture and stripping the paint and I was originally planning on staining the wood but I'm not sure that's a possibility. SO now the new plan (1A) is to strip it and then paint it a light green color and put a nice finish of some sort on it. I want to possibly take the handles off and either switch them out with something else or I want to take them and make them look a bit dirtier and make them look like they are made out of copper.

By the time it's done it's going to look just amazing.

Not only will it look amazing. It's going to be ripped. I'm hoping that if I give my current sterio system, speakers, and turntable to my brother perhaps my parents will help me get a new dj turntable, speakers, and a smaller system to fit into the cabinet. The current equipment is ancient and amazing. But I'm worried the needle on the turntable in there will scratch up my records and the radio system works wonderfully, but it was built before casette tapes were even used so the system in the cabinet is essentially worthless even though it is still in functioning condition. Anyway, this is going to be a project that I plan to finish in a year...it'll be a while till this pops back up on thepapermoon.

Game Over

My Sports Psych. Class concluded with a class excursion to the Cintas Center to watch Xavier U kill University of Dayton in the first period.






















So I got to go home from class 3 hours early! Talk about a good deal. I really love these accelerated courses. They are perfect for me. I'm seriously surprised that more UC students haven't caught onto this. And not only are the classes optimal in appeal but they also focus on topics that can help people in their everyday life. For instance, I'm taking a stress management courses next quarter. I would love to learn techniques that can help me cope with my pressures.

Anyway, all this extra could mean that I have time to practice and do homework. Or...it could mean that I have time to get some sleep and maybe watch a movie, right? I did just go 7 days straight without a break and I'm still holding up.

French Toast

Anxiety is a negative motional state characterized by nervousness, worry, and apprehension and associated with activation or arousal of the body, Thus anxiety has a thought component (cognitive anxiety) and a physical component (somatic anxiety).....

Bla bla bla....

Our Close Up

Recently, I have been talking to a guy (through facebook messages, of course) and he says that he's continuously "caught up in laughter with my lucky insightfulness." He says that I speak with wisdom and confusion, with curiousity. That I complicate things because I try to find the positive and negative in everything.

Perhaps I try to look at life too closely?

Life has both good and bad. When I'm looking at it from every angle, I'm just doing that. I'm just trying to understand the things that come my way. Usually, it makes me appreciate them more. So I think that it's fair to find the positive and negative in everything, as long as you don't let the negative affect you. And I don't, for the most part. I did for a while there, but I'm not now. I'm all smiles.

Op. WU

Today, following my lesson with Ixi (one of a few clarinet extraordinares that play in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and grace CCM with their presence http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/home.asp) I plan on working on a little something called Operation Warm-up which is being run by my good buddy, Nate. Essentially, once every year people get together at Hillel and take toiletries and other oerishable goods and package them so that they can be taken to Over-the-Rhine (a depressed area in downtown Cincinnati) and hand the packages out to homeless people during the harshest and coldest time of the year. I'm really excited. I have a lot on my plate right now and it's not going to be easy to set aside time to do this, but it is something I really want to do.

Where does it all go?

Where do the calories you eat go?

Here:
25 percent to muscles
23 percent to the liver, pancreas, kidneys, spleen, and adrenal glands
10 percent to the kidneys
10 percent to the brain
10 percent to breaking down the food you just ate
5 to 10 percent to the heart
2 to 3 percent to fat cells

As for which 'fat cells' I cannot tell you. You're on your own. But it is interesting. And I'm sure those %s also depend on the person.

2 Degrees F outside

And F stands for Fucking COLD. That's right. It's cold outside. So cold that they say with the windchill that if your skin is exposed for more than 5 minutes you can get frosbite or something. They said that on some channel. Maybe I'm wrong. But either way....I don't want to leave my apartment, let alone my bed. It's so cold I stand in front of my oven sometimes just so that I can feel my fingertips so I can practice. I hate hate hate this cold weather. This is the coldest month of my life so far.

It is what It is

I can never stop wondering about the beautifully, infinitely glorious things thate are around. Especially those that I haven't even imagined yet. And when I get a taste of it, I'm simply in awe. And I remember how much I don't know, how small I am, and how beautifully complicated it all is, And yet, how terribly simple. But the good thing is that it is never enough. So I will always be reminded about these wonders, and I will always be seeking more. Perhaps I will find my place... but until then, it will always be what It is, and that is reassuring.

I love...

My Depression Era vintage vaseline glass juicer!
That's right...I went to an antigue annex off of Red Bank Expressway (Exit 9, N. I-71, OH). I was looking for a sturdy good looking table of some kind to put my T.V. on or a book case to replace the audacious piece of crap that has been decomposing in my living room for the past 6 months. So I found something for my T.V. A vintage sterio cabinet. Misha and Mike helped me pick it up and get it into my apartment. It's from at least the 1940's, if not later, and it has an old turntable in it and radio. And it all works!!!! I plan on stripping the paint and either staining it, if the wood is good, or repainting it with some fun colors (Albeit, not too fun. Just sensibly chic, appealing, and smart).

Anyway, I crossed paths with a sexy cheap green juicer...I couldn't leave her there. So I bought her. And then I came home to find out how absolutely amazing it is!
And just now I found out some pretty insane facts about vaseline glass on http://1st.glassman.com/vaselineglass.html.

For instance, in 1835 experiments with uranium as a glass colorant were being carried out by Whitefriars Glass Works in London and that in 1836, a pair of uranium glass candlesticks were presented to the Queen. Production of uranium glass in Britain ceased by the end of the second world war but a small amount is still being manufactured in the USA and Czechoslovakia.

HEALTH AND SAFETY ASPECTS OF VASELINE GLASS / URANIUM GLASS
One of the most significant aspects of uranium glass is that it is radioactive and does give a positive reading on a geiger counter. This may cause some concern as to its safety with regard to health but I am now able to report that in June 2003 I assisted the UK's National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) in a study of uranium bearing glass. During this study, technical representatives of the NRPB visited my home and conducted extensive tests on a very wide variety of uranium bearing glass from many manufacturers and time periods. They confirmed that the radiation levels detected were low and quite safe with normal use. The full results of the NRPB study will be published in the near future and at that time I will be providing a link to the publication.

ADDITIONAL SAFETY NOTE: The grinding or abrasive polishing of vaseline glass cannot be classed as 'Normal Use' as the dust and residue produced by these actions can be toxic if inhaled or ingested and therefore should be avoided.

The other significant aspect of uranium bearing glass and that which is of major interest to collectors, is that it glows a vivid bright green under Ultra Violet light (blacklight). This is due to the Ultra Violet radiation exciting the outer electrons of the uranium atoms which as a result give off energy and which is seen by our eyes as a bright green glow.

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