I love my maw. I took the Megabus down to Chicago to visit her on Saturday morning. The ride was uneventful. The bus did not run out of gas on the interstate as it did one time previously. I did not sit next to anyone who reeked of pot. And I didn’t have anyone shouting into her cell phone at her baby daddy the whole way there. You do have to sit through about half an hour of people devouring their fast food after the mid-way rest stop. But still, not bad for thirty bucks round-trip.
In Chicago my mom and I caught a movie, went to a nice little Italian place (I had calamari, mussels and clams), and visited the Adler Planetarium. The highlight was a screening at the museum of a half-hour film on modern telescopes. It had an overview of telescopes, both earth-bound and extraterrestrial, taking in data in visible, x-ray, UV, infrared, radio, and gamma light.
I also exposed myself to the horrors of online anonymity on 4chan. Why didn’t someone tell me about this sooner!? You can google “shovel dog,” “I can count to potato” or “4chan: Should I kill myself?” to see what I mean.
Isaac
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