Everyone I have met in Barrow has great suggestions about activities to do while here in Barrow. I heard from several different people that the Saturday afternoon social at the Science center is so fun and I have to check it out. So, I show up at 1:30 and see the topic for today is "Titron....the next level of science fiction." At this point, I am not sure if people thought it would be funny to tell me to go to a meeting of Barrow's science fiction club or if they really thought it was a fun activity for me. I will emphasize the fact that no one who told me to go to this Saturday afternoon social was in attendance. I decided to stay anyway. After about 90 minutes of discussing Titron, the moon around Neptune, I realized I was a little out of my comfort zone. I ended up asking what I thought was an open ended discussion question that included the words "gravity, nitrogen, and volcano." The speaker answered "yes" and I am not really sure why.
The two speakers could not have been nicer people. Both from Barrow originally and now live all over the world. The woman is currently living in South Africa writing a children's science fiction novel about how different African tribes hook "feeds" into the back of your head to insert your thoughts.
The man brought his child hood telescope and told us stories about how he used to "beam" himself up to Mars when he was 12 years old. Unfortunately, he did not leave time for follow up questions in this part of the presentation. He wore a lime green mock turtle neck that said "Pluto power" on it and passed around a petition to sign to bring planet status back to Pluto. (I was seriously contemplating buying that shirt off of his back to give to Will as a present). It was definitely a learning experience and I met some pretty hilarious characters including the two speakers, a male nurse from Georgia, and a 14 year old girl who ate 7 donuts during the presentation....yes, I counted. She told me she sleeps with the windows open with no clothes so that shivers all night to burn extra calories. I wanted to suggest that she lay off the donuts and sleep like a normal person, but I didn't think it was my place.
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so that is how they average 750 pounds/year intake up there, yes?
What a coincidence- the guy I am dating said that he had to go out of town for a "speaking engagement" this past weekend and I know for a fact he is partial to mock turtlenecks. Any chance there were four massive hickeys peeking over this guy's mock turtle? If so, hands off, Jill- he's alllll miiiine.
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