My brush with responsibility.
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unbibiumAt the NOAH conference, I agreed to be a chaperone to take the kids to the Science Museum of Minnesota.
The museum was awesome, and huge. But we only had an hour and a half. And because I didn't do the math, and because my children were way too well-behaved to object to going to the movie, we spent half that time in the IMAX theater.
And I was nervous as hell, because the children were aged 7 to 11, and the movie was about the human body. Most of it was about mundane though often gross things, like vision, hearing, skin, and digestion. I kept being afraid it would become age-inappropriate, as it did describe a pregnancy in rather specific detail, and puberty was discussed. I was relieved when the sperm were swimming around with no explanation for how they got into the woman's body.
They were also displaying that "Body Worlds" exhibit, which I heard about on the Penn Jillette radio show, where they have human bodies on display, prepared to exhibit some particular feature. I was wondering whether we'd be allowed to take the kids there, but we had nowhere near enough time to even locate it. We would have seen the dinosaurs first, anyway, because hey, dinosaurs.
See, the Mars movie was playing at the other IMAX. So the museum was big enough for two IMAX theaters, but we only got an hour and a half? Someone didn't quite plan it out right.
I'm thinking of going back just to see the museum; it's simply huge, and there's this hedge maze we saw out the window at the stairwell that looked like fun.
The kids were well-behaved, the parents thanked me, and I thanked them for raising well-behaved kids, and they paid me with a paperweight.
The museum was awesome, and huge. But we only had an hour and a half. And because I didn't do the math, and because my children were way too well-behaved to object to going to the movie, we spent half that time in the IMAX theater.
And I was nervous as hell, because the children were aged 7 to 11, and the movie was about the human body. Most of it was about mundane though often gross things, like vision, hearing, skin, and digestion. I kept being afraid it would become age-inappropriate, as it did describe a pregnancy in rather specific detail, and puberty was discussed. I was relieved when the sperm were swimming around with no explanation for how they got into the woman's body.
They were also displaying that "Body Worlds" exhibit, which I heard about on the Penn Jillette radio show, where they have human bodies on display, prepared to exhibit some particular feature. I was wondering whether we'd be allowed to take the kids there, but we had nowhere near enough time to even locate it. We would have seen the dinosaurs first, anyway, because hey, dinosaurs.
See, the Mars movie was playing at the other IMAX. So the museum was big enough for two IMAX theaters, but we only got an hour and a half? Someone didn't quite plan it out right.
I'm thinking of going back just to see the museum; it's simply huge, and there's this hedge maze we saw out the window at the stairwell that looked like fun.
The kids were well-behaved, the parents thanked me, and I thanked them for raising well-behaved kids, and they paid me with a paperweight.
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Date: 2006-07-25 02:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 06:53 pm (UTC)I haven't seen the Mars movie. It should've been a blockbuster as large-film-format documentaries go, but for some reason it wasn't making money anywhere so my local IMAXatorium passed on the movie-- at the time they had a full schedule with I-forget-which first-run movie anyway.