This morning was chaos. I slept through my alarm, and woke up with moments to spare to get out the door and to aerospace scholars. As I was running out the door I realized I was supposed to drive Nick (who was still asleep) to work. I think Tiff ended up driving him in the end.

I pulled up to the security gate and showed the officer my badge. He stared at it, got a funny look, and said "Ma'am, there's a hole in your head." (Some background info: We got new badges, but we still need our old badges to get into secure areas. So, they punched holes in our old badges to identify them as old.) Apparently, my new badge must've fallen off sometime while doing activities with the aerospace scholars last night. So, I drove to the security office and spent another half an hour getting a new badge. This lead me to arrive solidly late to my morning activities. Someone did find my badge this afternoon, so that caper is solved.

After aerospace scholars, we had an awards ceremony at work for the Columbia investigation team I was on. It was cool to get an award - everyone involved got a group achievement award. I can't help but wish I had been awarded something that had flown into space. C'est la vie, someone will give me something that's flown into space one day. Until then, I'm buying this Soyuz parachute t-shirt. Really. But a lot of my friends got the cool special award, so congrats to them! It was fun -- awards are a rare thing (actually this is the first for me since I've started here), so it was an exciting morning!

Jen M. had the funniest journal entry about the dumb end to Spiderman 1:

MJ: "Oh, Peter. Even though I've been totally oblivious to/uninterested in your obvious crush on me for the whole movie, now I realize that you're the only one for me." (Bad acting, bad acting, bad acting.)

PP: "Well, MJ, even though I've been in love with you forever and don't want to see you end up with my 'best friend', I really can't see confessing my feelings to you. Especially since you obviously picked my geeky secret identity over my ultra-cool superhero form. See 'ya later, chica."