Original Cin

So, fast forward a week. Another weekend, another chance to see the museum. This time, I planned quite a bit better. I made sure to have my camera in a handy spot the night before, so I could grab it right away, and I double checked the CTA website to make sure I’d be able to get there and back without any major trouble. And it worked… sort of.

What I’ve been finding fairly consistantly on these Explore & Create Explorations is that going to well-known locations and seeing things that, strictly speaking, are amazing leaves me pretty disappointed and unfulfilled. Maybe I’ve just become jaded due to years of thinking, reading, and talking about over-the-tops things. I am difficult to impress. So,immediately, I’m not doing any more exploring projects, and my annual theme has reverted to “Create It.”

My initial failure in planning, however, did bring to mind a few old projects of mine that desperately needed new life…

TO BE CONTINUED.

Two weeks ago, I decided to go see the Fountain of Time as part of my Explore and Create 2009 theme. Without being too specific, I live nowhere near the Fountain, so this was a bit of trip. I decided that as long as I was in the area, I’d also have a look around The Museum of Science and Industry.

I didn’t have my digital camera handy, so I picked up a disposable from a store on the way. Just as I arrived, it started to rain, and I quickly snapped a few pictures of the sculptures and headed back to the bus stop.

At this point, I made a terrible, terrible mistake. I noticed a statue about four or five blocks east and decided “it’s on the way — I’ll take some pictures of that too, and then just walk to the museum.”

Google puts this at, roughly, a two mile walk. When I got to the museum, it was just before closing time, so rather than pay a bunch of money to spend very little time there, I just took another bus back toward home, swearing to myself that I would put more planning into this sort of thing in the future, and to remember that location matters…

TO BE CONTINUED.

(And: categorizing this in “Time Management” is not a joke or a mistake)