Day 29 (9/23 - Wed)

Tonight I got to do something quite fun -- I grabbed the 4:57 Metra to downtown, grabbed a taxi to the Adler Planetarium right on the lakefront, and then finally arrived a mere four minutes late for the special lecture I was trying to get to. The talk tonight was "Greek Astronomers and The Ancient Public," delivered with intelligence and insight by Alexander Jones, a generally smart guy out of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU. It was great fun, made more so by running into a Classics colleague from Loyola-Chicago and talking with her and Dr. Jones (no, not that one) and other people afterward, including this one guy in the audience who, when he found out that there were three professional Classicists standing right by him, got all excited and asked his "two questions I've always wanted to ask a Classicist" (ancient Greek pronunciation vs modern Greek and the validity of Graves' conclusions in his book on Greek Mythology -- Graves is so wack but a good storyteller).

But that's not what my picture is of today. I was all set to use a pic from the talk itself, until I walked outside the Adler tonight and saw this right in front of me.



Chicago is a pretty cool place.