Friday, March 5, 2004

   Now I know how an elephant feels
We went on a very sepsal field trip to the Johns(?) Hopkins Space Academy or some such place. I'm bad with names, as you all well know. In any case, we attended a press conference about space weather, and we got to be the press and ask questions and stuff. TV and newspaper reporters were there cuz they don't let schools come and have access to the testing buildings and stuff very often. So we and a couple other schools were divided into groups after the conference and had lunch (pizza!) and put on these "clean suits", big white papery suits with a zipper in the front. Those things werwe terrible. They were made to be woven so tightly that even skin cells couldn't get though, and they were quite baggy and a bit sticky. Oh yes, and we were wearing our huge, bulky skirts underneath them. It felt like having an extra layer of skin hanging off of you, bulging in odd places and restricting your movement because the crotch is about at your knees. We then split up and our group went to the testing building first. It was pretty boring, mostly because it was extremely uncomfortable standing for about an hour in hot rooms with unbreathable suits on. Then we switched back to the auditorium and had a presentation with experiments with this rather funny guy named Marc. We blew a lot of things up. First we had alkaseltzer (spelling?), water, and film canisters, which popped nicely, then shriveling balloons in dry ice. Then we had to find a way to get a water balloon that was just too big through the neck of a bottle by using a match and air pressure. Then came more fire, when Marc heated up a grate inside a tube and made some interesting noises, did the old plastic-bag-hairdrier trick, and completely demolished a water bottle with water and more dry ice (liquid nitrogen, like frozen air). That one was quite loud.
We got to keep the suits and I got Greg's nametag, which was in quite a shambles when I got it. And there's a party tonight with a blacklight dress code--black and white-- at Stephen and Michael's house. I'll go back to ushering tomorrow and therapy went well last night. Haven't had a late assignment for several days. So it's nice but boring over here.
OH YEAH! Almost forgot to mention. If you have Comcast cable, watch whichever news station it is you only get with it (I think it's 8 or 9...) and see if you see me (they should have the clip where I say my name if they're going to show me at all! if they don't, then I guess you'll just be in the dark :P). I got interviewed briefly, along with a lot of people I know very well, aka classmates. I'd also like to copy DES and ask what you think I look like. People who have seen me or my picture aren't allowed to guess, because that's cheating! O_O Whoever gets closest gets a prize of their choice, within reasonable limits. This is really just to nab some free comments, but hey, I feel lonely!
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