Washington D.C. – Science Bowl Day 3 – May 1, 2009
Today we scrimmaged against a friendly team in the neighboring dorm. They crushed us woefully under their iron fists of doom. We are facing them in the first round of the competition. FML.
Everyone on the entire trip has to wear the most abrasive green shirts ever known to alienkind. We literally can
see them from more than 500 rods away. There is a mobius strip and the word “Science” written in letters made out of frogs and other science things on both sides.
Once again, we went to the Smithsonian. The first museum we hit up? You guessed it, the National Gallery of Art. After looking at some art, our primal urges finally set in and we went to the Natural History Museum. There, we admired the Hope Diamond and drooled over the mineral collection.
As we made our way to the dinosaurs, I decided that with the glamour of every other Smithsonian exhibit, that I would lose my mind if they didn’t have an Archaeopteryx fossil. As I was preparing to break the priceless fossils in frustration, we came upon this priceless specimen. Jamie was too busy sitting on the priceless femur of a Brontosaurus to notice the priceless Archaeopteryx fossil.
Perhaps the best part of yesterday was lunchtime. George, who we initially thought was tempted to eat healthy, ordered a chicken Caesar salad. Just as I was about to be impressed, I saw him pull out the four Big Mac-ly fattening packets of dressing of 300 calories each. As he squirted the pure essence of arthrosclerosis all over his edible foliage, I could do nothing but squirm in disgust. Thanks to George, I actually had a negative net input of calories for lunch due to the repetitive fits of vomiting I experienced after witnessing this atrocity. (That last sentence isn’t exactly true but it might as well be.)
After the museum trip we went back and had our scrimmage and did some other stuff that I don’t remember. It was sort of a blur, since I didn’t have enough electrolytes after vomiting to maintain my memory. Anyway, goodnight dear readers. I’ll update you soon.
– Benji Kessler
