My new boss (sponsor) sent me some "sites to see" suggestions yesterday, so I decided to take her advice and drive to Baltimore (it's closer to DC than Memphis is to Marianna) to visit the National Aquarium. I had a BLAST! I went to a 4-D show (Planet Earth: Shallow Seas); it was so interesting to have the 3-D glasses on PLUS the experience of the 4-D stuff (bubbles blowing when fish were schooling, seats that moved and blew air at you at appropriate times - like when water snakes jumped at their prey, mist spraying you when dolphins exhaled from their blowholes, etc.) It was AWESOME! The dolphin show was pretty good, but I've seen better (it was WAY too short, especially considering how long you had to stand in line and then sit there before it started). It was one of the better aquaria I have ever been to; they had a fantastic new exhibit on jellyfish! I shot a couple of good video clips of the dolphin show and the upside-down jellyfish (SWEET), but for some reason it's taking forever to load them today, so I'll have to post them later.
Not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow yet. Thinking about driving to Triangle Coalition (they're the ones who administer the Einstein Fellowship program) to meet-and-greet and submit my moving expense paperwork, then settling in to write a zillion postcards and look for affordable health insurance! One of the most fabulous aspects of this adventure so far is that I'm just winging it day by day; for someone who's usually a "plan things down to the last detail" person, it's kind of liberating!
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