Prostitutes Need to Make a Living TOO!

So the legalization of prostitution has got everyone experiencing a religious epiphany all of a sudden. Let's see...we have porn available for purchase on about 50 channels on our televisions. An extensive array of videos at the movie stores and let's not forget perfume commericals that should be considered soft porn at the least that our children can watch. Oh, and don't forget just the regular television shows and movies that got porn in it just fun. We certainly cannot forget the downtown sluts who do it for free now can we. But wait, then there's prostitution. What an exception to the rule. What makes a porn star different from a prostitute? Besides a videocamera there is no difference. What makes a slut different from a prostitute? they actually make money. In fact, I have more respect for a prostitute then a slut. At least they are trying to make a living and contributing to society in someway. Now, don't get me wrong I am not encouraging prostitution or promoting it in any way but really people, prostitution is all around us, why pick on one particular group. They are like the seals of the streets. Save the seals but let's eat the cows, pigs, and veal of the world. C'mon now let's get real. These are the same people who complain about the homeless people on the streets. A career in prostitution could help this. So, if you're going to fight against something at least be comprehensive about it and include all types of pornography. Let's not get too selective here.

No title for this one

So what do you say when you have nothing to say? Actually, scratch that - you have a lot to say but have no idea how to start it. What do you do then? Life is certainly a roller coaster, isn't it. The funny thing is I hate roller coasters - cannot stand them. They say life tests you and what don't kill you only makes you stronger but when do you become strong enough? How strong could someone possibly want you to be? Ask yourself that. I do. So what do you do when you have a lot to say? Keep it to yourself and suck it up, I guess.  

13 going on 30.....

When did I become old? I do realize that 32 is not old persay but hey as the song goes "I still remember when 30 was old." And I do. Yes, some would say I'm only young but sometimes I just don't feel that way. Sometimes I hate the responsibility of being an adult and the assumptions that automatically come along with it. I hate that. I mean don't get me wrong I have no issue with growing old and I look forward to all those laugh lines (I think!) but sometimes I just want to do things and not have that look that says "you're old enough to know better, when is she going to grow up." You know what I mean? I feel like that right now I am at an age when certain things need to be persued but do I want to do that now? I don't know. Some days yes and others no. I guess as I get older I start to realize that yes I am too old to do some things now and sometimes it sucks when I want to do those things! I guess now I am just 13 going on 40!!! I know one thing for sure....I am certainly going to be one silly old lady!

Life

It's amazing that we never really appreciate anything sometimes, do we? When we don't have it, we want it and when we seem to have everything we wanted then we are really not satisfied, are we? I'm sure at some point we have all been in this position and usually don't realize it until we lose what we thought we didnt' want, get it? Clear as mud, right? I guess the point is that life moves fast, people grow old, love begins and ends but life moves on whether we like it or not. Enjoy every minute of it, the good and the bad. Growing old seems like a lifetime away until it stares you right in the face!

The 20lb 92 brightness sheet of disappointment

So the truth is I opened the letter and cryed my eyes out. A year of preparation destroyed on one single piece of 20lb 92 brightness piece of cheap paper with a fancy letterhead. I would use the word frustrated to describe how I felt at that moment but the truth is I felt defeated and destroyed inside and my heart sank in slow motion. All that effort, all the waiting only to have someone basically say that it just can't happen yet, well if not now, then when I ask? How much longer doI wait to start my life? When will you give me the go ahead? That was my initial reaction but now I am numbed at the thought and have decided to proceed as planned and take the heat later but let me assure you that I can also produce some fire and indeed I will. The truth is that I couldn't think about it for days because it brought tears to my eyes and it upset me too much but not now. Now, I have accepted it and will move on as I intended to do all along without your support but with full intent of acclaiming your criticizm for doing so. That's ok I will persevere and that I will proudly print off on a single white sheet of 20lb 92 brightness of paper and happily sign my name to.

Friends....far and near

As I get older, yes that's right I admited I am getting old, I am starting to see who my friends really are. I've never been the one to be open with many people, actually very few people and that's stretching it, and that leaves me with few people that I would call close friends. In admiting that, this is a choice that I have made for myself over a lifetime, a conscious decision on my part perhaps due to fear of being ridiculed for who I am or because I prefer to keep my business "my business" either way it has worked out and I have no regrets. The friends I keep are supportive of who I am now, what I have accomplished, what I have, and what I have to offer and that's important to me. The important thing to me is that they are there when I need them and vice versa. They are the type of people that I may not talk to for months but at the same time I can pick up the phone and it's like we haven't missed a beat. I am not a "mushy" person but I hope you know I am talking about you, my friend, and that I appreciate you for you.

Some new research...(Medline Plus)

Reuters HealthThursday, March 5, 2009
By Michael Kahn
LONDON (Reuters) - Two studies published on Thursday provide evidence that common viruses may cause childhood diabetes, paving the way for potential vaccines against the life-threatening condition, researchers said.
One team showed that enteroviruses -- which normally cause colds, vomiting or diarrhea -- were found frequently in the pancreases of young people who had recently died from type 1 diabetes, sometimes called juvenile diabetes, but not in healthy samples.
This suggests a virus could trigger the disease in children genetically predisposed to the condition, which affects an estimated 440,000 people worldwide, said Alan Foulis of the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow, who worked on one of the studies.
"The story that is emerging is there is a virus infection that precedes the onset of autoimmunity," he told a news conference. "There is a thought that we are looking at the culprit."
Type 1 diabetes is caused by the destruction of beta cells of the pancreas that produce the insulin necessary to regulate blood sugar levels. The autoimmune disease is different from the far more common type 2 diabetes, which is strongly associated with obesity.
Genetics play a role in diabetes but researchers know other factors such as diet are also important, with viruses long suspected as a possible trigger, researchers said.
Foulis and colleagues examined 73 pancreas samples of young people who had died from diabetes and found that 60 percent of the donated organs contained evidence of enteroviral infection of beta cells.
By contrast, the researchers hardly ever saw infected beta cells in tissue samples taken from 50 children without diabetes, they reported in the journal Diabetologia.
They also found a large proportion of these infected cells in adults with the more common type 2 diabetes, suggesting that viruses may also trigger this form of the disease in some people.
A second study from Cambridge University researchers found that rare genetic mutations in a gene involved with the body's response to viruses reduce the risk of juvenile diabetes.
They looked at 480 young people with type 1 diabetes and another 480 healthy people to identify the gene and the variants involved.
"We have pinpointed a specific gene, which acts as a warning report for virus infection," John Todd, a Cambridge University researcher, who worked on a study published in the journal Science. "Not only have we found a specific gene but this gene also has an intriguing function in dealing with virus infection."
While Todd cautioned that many environmental factors besides viruses could contribute to type 1 diabetes, Foulis and his team said they wanted to whittle down the some 100 enteroviruses to find which ones played the main roles.
Doing this, and better understanding of how cells respond to viral infection, are steps toward a vaccine that could one day protect children against diabetes, Foulis said.
"The aim would be for a vaccine that would prevent many cases of type 1 diabetes," he added.
(Reporting by Michael Kahn, Editing by Will Dunham and Richard Williams)