Last night, I interviewed President's Scholars candidates, something I was wholly unqualified to do. As it turns out, most of them weren't actually very impressive, so it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. I wonder if that's how I sounded in high school -- just chanting the litinany of honor societies I belonged to without actually doing anything but attending meetings. I'd like to think I wasn't like that. But who knows.

Afterwards, Super Bowl party. As usual, the commercials were better than the game. In particular, I liked the FedEx one.

Castaway: "Ma'am, I was marooned on an island for 5 years with this package. I swore if I ever got off, I would deliver it to you because I'm a FedEx employeee."

Lady: "Thanks, its so nice of you"

Castaway: "Out of curiousity, what's in it?"

Lady: "Oh, its nothing, just a satellite phone, a GPS reciever, some water purifier tablets, ooh and some seeds."

He he he...


Teacher-in-Space



In case you haven't caught the news, NASA is recruiting school-teachers again as astronauts. They started a web site where anyone could log in and nominate a teacher they think is qualified for the job. Anyway, I read this article about it that made me laugh so hard I almost fell off my chair. The highlights of one student nomination:

"Because we all hate him and want him to leave, please take him," one student wrote.


Since then, the nomination form has been changed to say: "Remember, you're nominating your teacher for a round trip. It's not a one-way."