Oh, that's adorable! You ARE Ms. Awesome!

I totally filled out the form.

I love those "teach the controversy" shirts. I wish I could wear them to school.

HA. That's hysterical. I'm super stoked that we're a $100 away. I'm also shocked at how much other stuff Donors Choose puts on for shipping & tax and fulfillment (the books themselves cost ~$400).

I wonder if Sars will do another big push for Donors Choose. I can do two more proposals, which I will try to do over the summer to get the rest of the books I need (mostly Atwood), but I'd like to have it done so that we can have a challenge thingy ready.

Also, This cracked me:

AS the Democratic primaries revealed, Barack Obama is having a hard time winning the support of blue-collar voters.

So here’s a piece of strategic advice for the candidate: Lose the Nicorette. Light up instead.

Consider these statistics, culled from studies of smoking patterns. Americans who make between $24,000 and $36,000 a year smoke at twice the rate of those earning $90,000 or more. The same applies to Americans with a high-school education rather than a college degree. Rural Americans smoke more than city-dwellers. As for race, there’s a close correlation between states with high rates of white smokers and those where Mr. Obama polled worst in the primaries. Leading the pack of smoking states are Kentucky and West Virginia; industrial states like Ohio aren’t far behind.

Bottom line: small-towners in the Rust Belt and Appalachia don’t cling to guns and religion so much as they do cigarettes.

Weren't we talking about how people claim liberal media bias for not covering Obama's smoking?

I was sad mac's school's Donors Choose thing did not get funded and that if funding is not complete the project gets nothing.

I am sad about that too, msbelle. If a project you donate to doesn't get funded, then what happens to those that have already donated? Where do their funds go?

I guess if I am in that situation when the time comes, I'll just self fund the last bit. Because then the donation is more easily tax deductible than taking it as a teaching expense, which isn't allowable on 2008 returns.

I was sad mac's school's Donors Choose thing did not get funded and that if funding is not complete the project gets nothing.

Yeah, that was a bummer.

I am sad about that too, msbelle. If a project you donate to doesn't get funded, then what happens to those that have already donated? Where do their funds go?

You get a credit to use for something else. So actually, the money I put to your project is the same money I had put toward mac's school already.

Today is my anniversary at this job and I'm being taken out to lunch of my choice. I have no idea where to go though!

lisah - where did you go? I was going to say Mezze or their new one... hey. Have you been to Asahi? Looks scary. Is not. Up past Ding How.