1. We are going to visit Ukraine for a week in May to support our favorite lil’ Peacemonger. Ahh, the excitement! This will involve a trip to Chernobyl, which is soon to be quite the hot spot for reckless tourists like us.
Apparently this park was supposed to open a week after the plant melted down. Who wouldn’t want to see this in person?
CREEPERS.
2. Sadly, this won’t be my only source of above-average radiation exposure this year. The first 6 months of 2011 alone guarantee that I’ll be in flight for about 60 hours. I’ll be baking in cosmic radiation, which isn’t smiled up on for child-bearing-age women such as myself.
Let’s just hope that when my time comes to physically import a human, none of this high-energy travel will be evident in its third eye or extra set of teeth.
3. Don’t get me wrong, I love radiation as much as the next former high school chemistry teacher. It was by far my favorite unit to teach. Fun stuff. Radioactivity is SO relevant in the modern day, from weaponry to dentistry (which are two different things). It has the capacity to save life via cancer treatments and take life by causing cancer in the first place. FASCINATING.
