Birthday Plans Thwarted, Dead Bodies a No Go

My mother, my husband, and I traveled to Chicago today to see the Body Worlds exhibit, a collection of skinned cadavers in various positions. We drove the half hour to the train, waited, rode the train for an hour, walked to the museum, and ta-da - the friggin exhibit was sold out. Go figure. Apparently tickets for the Sunday showing had sold out sometime on Saturday. My mother and I had both checked online Saturday night and Sunday morning and there was no indication online that the exhibit was sold out, which would have been extremely beneficial. We stayed and went through the rest of the Museum of Science and Industry, where I discovered that everything I touch breaks immediately (I would like to think that everything was already broken but since my husband and my mother were not having any trouble with the various machines next to mine, we determined it has something to do with me....While in the Basic Chemistry gallery, I decided that it must have something to do with an impossible congruence of the atoms which make up my body and the atoms which make up the various machines.)

Now all of this is not to say that I didn't get to see any of the artfully posed cadavers; I was able to peak through a hole in the material shielding the Body Worlds exhibit from curious eyes on the floor above. Sneaky and not completely satisfying, but hey I got to see a strangly sliced camel and a couple skinned dead guys.

So not an entirely wasted Birthday as I discovered something new about my chemical make up - perhaps I'm a clone and my double helix is mutated just enough to cause continuous bad luck - and it was a beautiful day outside - although I was actually outside very little - and I got to take a sneak peak at the exhibit I had actually traveled to see.