If your Cheetos aren't crunchy, it's because you're eating a banana.

I know, I know. It's late. But I still have an hour to get this post up! It is still Sunday!!

I totally have a legitimate excuse for this post getting up later than normal, too. We got home from Chicago around 7 tonight, and then the rest of the evening was a quick frenzy of getting the carpet cleaned up from the massive rainstorm we had earlier today and watching the Braves on Sunday Night Baseball. So I really had no time to write a post up today.


Anywho, let's get down to business. .....to defeat the Huns. I definitely did not just write that in order to make that reference. Nope. Why would I? It seems to be one that I can't stop myself from making whenever I say "let's get down to business".

 I'm getting even happier than I thought I would be that next week is my last week at work -- probably forever. I haven't decided yet if I'll return for Christmas break or any upcoming summer breaks, but I'm fairly certain I'm going to not return. I'm just so tired of the job and it's wearing me out. Every day I'm scheduled to work, I have to mentally coax myself to going in. Once I get there, it's fine - with the exception of awful customers but every job has at least a handful of those - but those hours leading up to it. God, it's awful. (Side note: did I spell 'wear out' properly? I'm not sure if I did... I'm an awful English major sometimes.) Thankfully, I only work Tuesday - Thursday this week, and then Sunday afternoon, and then I am done at the market for at least 3 months - until the end of November, right after Thanksgiving. We'll see what I decide though.

This weekend was also a lot of fun. We spent the weekend in Chicago taking my younger sister Avery to a college fair. Well, that was the purpose of the trip. But since the college fair was just earlier this afternoon, we made a weekend of it since we could.

On Saturday, we went to the MythBusters exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. Even if the exhibit wasn't there, I would have still gone to the MoSaI. I love museums of all kinds, and this one is especially fantastic. All the exhibits I've seen are interactive in some way or another, and the MythBusters exhibit was no less than that. Literally every part of the exhibit was interactive. You could turn the blue print pages from the beginning of each myth. Each one even had a funny comment. For example, the one for Primary Perception (torturing plants - the plant polygraph!, etc.) is "Cool; we get to torture yogurt!" I suppose that's not even really that funny, but when Avery and I saw that, we could not stop laughing.

Probably my favorite part of the MythBusters exhibit - aside from the interactive show, which I will get to - was the run/walk test through "rain" to find out which way gets you wetter. The rain was just water from a sprinkler system with some dye in it that shows up under black lights, I believe. The MythBusters got that one correct - you will be less wet if you run through the rain instead of walking through it. That leads to slipping and sliding all over the place though, and sometimes a walk in the rain is really nice. It's all circumstantial, I suppose.

Another favorite was the driving blind test. There was a steering wheel and a set of pedals adjacent to a computer screen. The one 'driving' couldn't see where they were driving - they just had to follow directions from their partner about where/how they should be driving. My dad followed Avery's instructions, and it was hilarious. He spectacularly crashed, after crashing into a car in the next lane over, running over an orange construction drum, driving off the road/out of the parking lot over the median divider before Avery told him to turn around and drive really fast, in order for him to get back on the road. Unfortunately for him, there was a giant building in front of the car once he made it back into the parking lot, so...he crashed, the poor guy. Perhaps we should just keep him to driving with proper and complete vision from now on, to ensure that he doesn't kill himself and all of his passengers while totaling the car in the process.

Another very enjoyable part of the exhibit was the live show, in which two MythBusters (employees of the museum, really) used the audience members to help solve the myth of it is possible to dodge a paintball. The conclusion was 'plausible', if anyone was wondering. We arrived at this conclusion because you can't avoid a paintball 100% of the time - ie. if there was any delay shorter than 1 second - but if there was a delay of 1 second or greater, than you could avoid a paintball. They asked a ton of questions and everyone who answered a question got an "I am a CONFIRMED MythBuster" sticker. I answered the question of why people could respond to sound faster than light in the particular room with "because it's very echo-y, so that will help it get to your ears quicker" and I got a sticker! I'm probably way happier about this than I should be, but I don't care. Hahaha.

Later that night, we went to a White Sox game because we can't resist going to a baseball game whenever we're in a major city. The White Sox were playing the Mariners and it was a very exciting ball game. We had fantastic seats (as seen to the right) and now I will forever be spoiled for baseball seats. It was so amazing being able to read the back of the players' uniforms and see their facial expressions. I've always had seats in the second or third deck before, which aren't nearly as nice.

The White Sox's manager and catcher both got thrown out in the third inning arguing balls and strikes. It was totally worth it as the home plate umpire had a very generous strike zone, which was very unpopular with the White Sox, as you can imagine. The ejections also completely revved the White Sox up to come back (later in that inning I believe), to tie the game up and eventually come through to win it.

The post game fireworks were also AMAZING. This was only my second night game and the first with post-game fireworks, so I had entirely no idea what to expect. The theme for the show's soundtrack was "soundtracks", including the Back to the Future theme, Star Wars, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Jaws theme, and the Pirates of the Caribbean theme, just to name a few. I had certainly never seen a fireworks show like it, and I now want to go to more post-game fireworks shows.

Another hilarious moment of the ball game was when they started playing Call Me Maybe and Avery and I both started lip syncing along and dancing. The song is so terrible but somehow very catchy.

(Ahhh, it's 12:05AM. I didn't make it by midnight. It's close though! The majority of this post was written on Sunday, so I think it still counts.)

Then we took Avery to a college fair today - the Colleges That Changed Lives college fair in Schaumburg. It was surprisingly fun, though it was weirding me out a little bit that the kids there were born in '95 and '96 and they're getting ready to go to college in the next couple of years. People that age have always seemed ridiculously young to me, and now they're going to be leaving high school soon. Regardless, it was very fun getting to say hi to the folks at the Knox booth, though I didn't know any of them. It did make me really excited to be heading back to school though. I know a lot of people don't like the college they chose or it's really stressful or something, but I really love my first choice college and I am so happy that I got accepted and I'm going to it.

I've decided that I'm going to have random stuff for my blog post titles. This one is from a billboard I saw while I was in Chicago.

The Braves won tonight, and as always, I am ecstatic. I really love watching baseball, especially watching my boys play. I get so happy to see them do well. They really do deserve to be back in the playoffs this year because it's Chipper's last year and they have such a good team this year. I really hope they win the Series... we'll just have to see what happens. I now own an mlb.tv subscription for the remainder of the season because it was on sale for $10 today. So I get a solid month of Braves games. Yaaaaay.

Okay.

Countdown to Knox: 13 days! Well, technically 12, since it's Monday now. O.M.G. So excited.