Capella Sistina

It's smaller than I expected it to be, and the different pieces of the ceiling fresco are larger. All the pictures you see in textbooks make it look so small but I can clearly pick out The Creation of Adam, The Creation of Eve, as I dig back into my memory to Spring Quarter freshman year, Art History 203. I thought I was going to be an Art History major then. People around me sit, stand, stare, craning their necks upward, trying to memorize the lines on the ceiling. "No photos" the guard said. Does he get tired of seeing the Sistine? Or any of the other rooms here, for that matter? How does one become a guard at the Vatican? I spot Michelangelo in The Last Judgment. What would he have thought of us?