Happy Hour and Mindball

It's official, I cannot relax to save my life. My uptight norm was proved today during a strenuous game of Mindball at the Bakken Museum (a electricity museum founded by Earl Bakken, creator of Medtronic). Mindball is a fascinating game. You sit across from another person, you both put these headbands on, and then you try to relax. There is a ball in the center that moves with your brainwaves, so, whoever is more stressed draws the ball towards them, and loses. I lost hard core. No competition. My roommate, Molly, however, surprisingly beat numerous people. I had no idea she was so relaxed!!!

The reason we went somewhere as geeky as the Bakken today, is because we wanted to check out its "Bakken Night Out," which happens every second Tuesday of the month. It was sweet actually. We had buy one get one free coupons to get in. Thus, it was $2.50 to go, and once you got in, you got free wine and appetizers, plus free reign of the museum. So we played Mindball and watched a play about Mary Shelly -- the author of Frankenstein. It was pretty interesting. Do you know, Frankenstein is actually the creator of Frankenstein (Victor Von Frankenstein), and who we call Frankenstein today was actually called "The Monster" in the novel.

Who knew?

Only those who have actually read the book --- or those who, like me, go to science museum's for happy hour. Hey, sometimes, you just gotta live a little.