lj- not dead, just resting
Today Joe and I tried to do what most unemployed people do: we went in search of free stuff. Like the 3rd Wednesday of the month free admission day at the Academy of Sciences. I was so excited, I've been wanting to go to this museum for close to 10 months now, but the 25$ price tag seemed cruel. Oh, the beauty of a free day then! Sadly, the true state of the economy hit home this morning. There was a _mob_ of people who thought free admission was the bees knees, and they got up even earlier than I did. The line to get into the museum wrapped around the street. We walked and walked, close to half a mile I imagine, and still we couldn't even see the end of the line. Well shit.
So I got to spend the day at the Exploratorium, where Joe and I already have a membership, so it was free. It's such an awesome museum too. Where else can you play with magnets and thermal fields and bubbles. It is the most engaging museum--it turns everyone into magpies attracted to shiny objects. The shiny objects are experiments that teach you about electrical charges or the shape of your eye or what a bird looks like as it decomposes, two months in a terrarium with desiccating insects. We naturally love to explore, to look closely at everything and poke things, turn knobs, and push buttons to see reactions. I loved watching all the kids at the Exploratorium today as they got excited about their world, and maybe a different way of seeing it. "Hope is the thing with feathers" wrote Emily Dickinson. But its not the only thing...
So I got to spend the day at the Exploratorium, where Joe and I already have a membership, so it was free. It's such an awesome museum too. Where else can you play with magnets and thermal fields and bubbles. It is the most engaging museum--it turns everyone into magpies attracted to shiny objects. The shiny objects are experiments that teach you about electrical charges or the shape of your eye or what a bird looks like as it decomposes, two months in a terrarium with desiccating insects. We naturally love to explore, to look closely at everything and poke things, turn knobs, and push buttons to see reactions. I loved watching all the kids at the Exploratorium today as they got excited about their world, and maybe a different way of seeing it. "Hope is the thing with feathers" wrote Emily Dickinson. But its not the only thing...