Project This!

This has been a very exciting week at work! Ever since John McCain trashed the museum during the debates on Tuesday, the local and national media has been everywhere. We held a press conference on Wednesday and it was like a debate in itself. The reporters were asking really hard questions like "why do you even need a new projector" and "doesn't $3 million seem like too much money?" Yikes!

First of all, we are hardly asking for a new "overhead projector." For those of you that didn't see the debate, check out this clip with McCain's comments and a news station's response. (Don't worry, the clip is only a minute and a half long.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ullQiM5Tmg


What has been really cool, is that despite our worries, people from all over the country have been calling and emailing to stick up for us! Our phones are ringing off the hook. Even more, an NBC science blog started telling its readers to send us money so we wouldn't need an earmark. Overnight money started flooding in from all over the country!

Here is a link to that blog in case you're curious:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/08/1518907.aspx


One of my Republican friends said "look, John McCain is already doing good things for America!" What a loser! But it has been really touching to see all of these people that have never heard of us, and clearly will never visit the us, willing to part with their money just to tell us they don't think our museum is "a bunch of pork." Oink oink, McCain!

Tag, I'm It

I got tagged by my friend Jon today. So although we are engaged in a political argument at the moment, I figured we are pretty much always in a political argument, so I might as well participate. I hope you find some of this random information interesting!

Here are the rules:
1.Post the rules on your blog
2.Write 6 random things about yourself
3.Tag 6 people at the end of your post
4.If you are tagged, just do it, and pass the tag along!

1. I am totally superstitious and it sometimes gets ridiculous. For example, tonight I was making garlic bread and cut 5 pieces for me, and 5 for Russ. I was going to make 3 for Josie but realized that would mean 13 pieces of bread- unacceptable. So I cut 14 and figured Russ could eat the extra. Now that is random.

2. I am afraid that if I talk about something scary, it will happen to me. Again, sort of in the superstition vein. But I am deathly afraid of worst-case-scenarios, and if I start talking about something that scares me- especially if I'm joking about it- I am afraid karma will make it happen to me. I would give some examples, but then I would be afraid it would happen to me.

3. I am fascinated by weird actors that are secretly amazing singers. For example, I love Kevin Spacey. I heard him singing some old 40's music on a movie soundtrack once and fell in love with the way his voice sounds. Another example is Jon Lovitz. He is a really great singer, who knew?

4. When I was growing up my Mom never let me eat pickles because they were too salty. So now I consider a pickle to be the world's greatest secret treat.

5. If I could start my life over and learn any talent, it would be to play the violin. I think it sounds so beautiful. Josie's quarter-Grandma Sharon is a professional violinist and it is awesome to listen to her play. I wish I could do that!

6. I have never had any athletic talent whatsoever, despite my best efforts. I love watching sports and I think its exciting to see athletes being really aggressive and pulling off difficult plays. If I could be great at any sport, it would be volleyball. It always looked really fun, but whenever I tried to play it I was scared of getting hit by the ball.

So there. Does it get any more random than that? And since I don't really know anyone with a blog except Heather, Heather-- you're tagged!