Cicadas are a little bug with a loud, loud, LOUD sound. We don’t have them where I live or where I grew up, so I was pretty impressed with the volume that those singing bugs can create! My goodness!
While we were in Chicago, Dr. Peds and I went to the Field Museum. Honestly, even though I feel it’s kind of an iconic museum, it wasn’t our favorite. But we did really enjoy the special exhibit on wildlife photography, and by looking at all of the amazing images on display, I learned that wildlife photography really requires patience. Massive quantities of patience. Like, one photographer sat in mud for seven hours waiting for ants to do something special, for multiple days. I find that kind of patience pretty impressive.
Be careful while scooting through a turnstile with luggage. You might get stuck. It happened to me. I was entering the train station and my roll on suitcase somehow got caught right on the bar that turns in the turnstile and was stuck. I don’t even know how I happened. The absurdity of the whole affair was enough to make both Dr. Peds and I burst out laughing. After a minute I managed to rotate the suitcase enough to get it unstuck, which probably made all the people in line behind me really happy.
At the Museum of Surgical Sciences in Chicago I learned all about the dark ages of nursing, which was fascinating. It didn’t happen in the middle ages, rather in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, but it was a time when the lowest dredges of society were in charge of taking care of sick people in “institutions” (hospitals) run by the state. Herds of rats grew to enormous sizes and crawled all over the sick people in their beds.
Polenta fries can be delicious.
On the cello I have been learning to play more quickly, and I’m learning some new and important things in thumb position.
On the piano I have almost learned an accompaniment for The Banana’s violin. This one is killing me! Every time I think I’ve got it, I don’t have it. It’s just an awkward orchestral transcription.
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