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So, apparently there's a train track very close to my flat.

I LOL a little, but honestly I really never notice the train, and last night apparently Mum lay awake noticing NOTHING BUT and having an attack of conscience that she has been living a happy life whilst I have SUFFERED in MISERY living SO CLOSE TO A TRAIN.

Seriously, I sleep right through it. Every night. All night long.

So this attack of conscience led to her waking up this morning with a list on her iPhone of ways to improve my flat. Which I appreciate, I'd like nothing better, but I don't want the inadequacies of my flat haunting her. For one thing, I'm happy here; I love my stupid two-front-doors flat. For another, I don't want her cranky the entire weekend. She was actually feeling guilty about us going to the museum today when we could be getting a car and doing DIY home-improvement all weekend.

Her quest to get me a microwave is almost incomprehensible. I like microwaves and all, but I basically use them for softening butter.

Anyway, we're off to the museum today; you kids entertain yourselves and try not to break anything (I realise the two are sometimes mutually exclusive).

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I want this fireplace! Too bad the Smart Museum is hogging it :P

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The holiest drinking fountain in Chicago!

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Frank Lloyd Wright liked horizontal things :D

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Badass lamassu at the Oriental Institute!

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We are home!

We caught the train and bus to the University and walked down to the Smart Museum of Art, which was smaller than Mum expected so I suggested she might be more impressed by the Oriental Institute Museum, but on the way we got sidetracked into the Seminary Co-op and then Mum was hungry so I took her to the Med for lunch and we buzzed the Robie House by Frank Lloyd Wright and saw the Oriental Institute and caught the train home and bought groceries at the bodega and now we are watching movies, the end.

*collapses*

It was an awesome day! I had never been in the Oriental Institute Museum before, I need to go back with a sketchpad. And the Seminary Co-op was every bit as cool as I'd been told, though Mum had some issues with the whole "narrow corridors underground" concept. Still, she loved the aboveground portion of the seminary. Well, and most of the rest of the university campus. It was a gorgeous day out, too; I had to warn her that Chicago weather isn't always like this, because now she doesn't want to go home.

HOT DOGS FOR DINNER. LINE FORMS ON THE RIGHT!

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Mum: What's on TV?
Sam: I'm not sure what this is.
Mum: Oh, it's my show!
Sam: What is it?
Mum: You know. About the wizard, only he's not a wizard yet.
Sam: This is Merlin.
Mum: Yeah! I really like this show.
Sam: *boggle*

...time passes...

Mum: I figured you'd think this show was rinkydink.
Sam: That's kind of why I like it. You know I have a friend who thinks Arthur and Merlin have something going on.
Mum: Well, yeah.
Sam: *BOGGLE*
Mum: Aren't they destined to rule Britain?
Sam: No, like...they're involved.
Mum: With each other?
Sam: Yeah.
Mum: Oh. *thoughtful silence* That would make a lot of things make sense.

I don't even know what to think anymore.

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We've moved on to a biopic on Cary Grant. They did a bit on An Affair To Remember...

Mum: That's Deborah Kerr!
Sam: So it is.
Mum: Didn't she play in The King And I?
Sam: Yeah, she was 'I'.