Chung! Chung!

So I planned it all out. I couldn't go on Thursday even though the Eastman House is open till 8pm because the bus only runs till 6:30pm and then I'd only be able to stay for an hour (which as it turns out wouldn't have been a problem) and would have had to worry about being stranded. So I decided to go with Friday because I could set out earlier and the House would close before the bus runs stopped so I'd rather worry about the museum staff kicking me out than missing the last bus. Anyway, I assumed due to the way things are set up on the RTS website that the bus I was going to take which was included in the school shuttles section that the bus was gonna be free, but I wound up having to pay which wouldn't have been a problem if it weren't for my embarassing assumption that I didn't have to pay if I just showed my U of R ID. Suffice it to say: awkward. Anyway, that trauma over, we move on to the next trauma... getting off the bus at the right place. I wound up having to walk a bit but at least I wasn't walking in the wrong direction because I was starting to get worried after it had been a while past the intersection they were supposed to be right near. So I finally find it and go in and pay admission and the lady asks me if I'm here to see the Law & Order exhibit all knowingly and I mean I was there for that, but what about me screamed it from the rooftops for her to assume? I guess cuz I was a students and students don't do educational stuff, they do TV stuff. Anyway, the pictures and the exhibit were really cool and they were playing the theme song and clips from the show and chung chunging and there were body part props and a tribute to Jerry Orbach and I had heard on NPR that they were gonna send the comment book to Jerry's wife because lots of people were writing stuff about how great he was so I wrote stuff about him being great too. And the bus ride home was much less stressful and even though it was $8 (bus fare plus admission) and I was only there for like a half hour, maybe 45 minutes and spent more time in transit I'm pretty sure, it was worth it cuz that's less than I would have spent going one way to the airport in a taxi and the airport does not have Law & Order. Plus I saved money in terms of airport taxiness when I took the bus before spring break.