Oh right, blogging. Maybe tomorrow.

EDITED:  For more non-cynical babblings below

I’ve been busy over at Tomato Nation watching/working the Bet Red Challenge  and obsessively reloading & watching the total donations increase little by little. I know I’ve already been positively obnoixous in my promotion of this project, but if you haven’t already, please pop over there and throw a few dollars at one of the projects that still needs funding. It will make your day better. I’ve already teared up about a dozen times in the past 24 hours.

Yesterday, related to the above fundraiser, the challenge was posed to get to $90,000 by 11:59 PM on Wednesday. The promise was a match from a generous anonymous donor of $8K. We did it before 11:00 PM on Tuesday.

This was posted early this morning:

…$90,000.  Shortly: $98,000.  A 6K gap closed in about 6 hours.

Please take a moment to think about what’s just happened here.  In a bad economy, a group of people — who have for the most part never met each other — banded together to help kids and teachers they don’t know personally, at a rate of $1,000 an hour.  Consider the odds on that.  Think about what that means.

This is why I get so into this every year. Because even though I am a cynic and I would probably be annoyed with this level of shameless promotion by other people, for whatever reason, this is one of those “gives me hope” things. Thank god I can blame the teary-eyes on my allergies.