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Went to the county science fair yesterday to do some judging. It was just as exciting as I thought it would be! There were a bunch of very similar projects, a lot of interesting titles that I didn’t get to see, and a few that were very relevent to the organization I was there with. Our top picks:

First is a project studying different filtration systems for ballast tanks so organisms in seawater brought onto a ship for ballast don’t get released into a new area and take over the environment. It was pretty cool. She used brine shrimp as her invasive organism and had a model ballast tank with a bunch of different filters.

The second was a project to naturally remove a toxin from water through a hybrid tree. There are currently only a handful of treatment plants that can handle this toxin now and it results in a toxic sludge. The amazing part of this project: he succeeded.

Toward the end of the fair, Sonny found me and he took some pictures for me of the projects and my pre-selected winner. After that, met up with the sibs at the parents’ place. We had lunch and watched some basketball. I took a nap over there before heading over to meet up with BFF.

Decided to go shopping with BFF and we headed over to the mall. Yeah, we’re cool, yo. I found a pair of dress pants at Ann Taylor which (1) fit, (2) had pockets, and (3) were the right length. They were a little more expensive than my pants usually are, but still within reason (they were on the clearance rack, of course). And with the other selling point of being able to wear them right away without having to hem them or anything, I decided I must have them. And the pair right behind them that were a different color. :) So worth it to not have to constantly be tugging my pants back up.

We also tried a bunch of the department stores, Banana Republic, the Gap, and wherever else kids are shopping these days. No luck. (Clearance rack at Banana Republic started around $90. Yeah, right.) From there we headed over to Ross. There were some of the most hideous clothes I have ever seen there.

BFF walked away with a few pairs of pants and I found a cute jacket thingy and a dress shirt. Well, the first dress shirt I found was BFF’s size, so I pulled that out for her, then I found one in my size. So, uh… now we have matching dress shirts. Two, actually. Since I bought a shirt a while back and then got a hand-me-down from Squidgey which was the same shirt in a different size. Which I then passed on to BFF one day when she was visiting. I figured it’s not like we usually see each other when we’re both dressed up. So what’s it matter if we own the same shirt? Yeah. It doesn’t.

After we finished our shopping extravaganza, hung out at BFF’s parents’ place for a bit. We discussed real estate and cookies. It was entertaining.

Headed home for movie time with Ian. We watched War of the Worlds. Turns out that’s a scary movie. So for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, there are aliens in it. I wouldn’t say it was a good movie so much… There were too many loose ends left at the end. But it was entertaining at least.

Today, we watched Hotel Rwanda. I’m a couple years behind, but whatever. Amazing movie. Wow.