Serendipitous provenance of the quotation aside, I have not showered yet today because I am afraid to leave you spendy peeps alone. And I take short showers! Short hair, short showers! Still afraid! Smelly and …

I was sitting here thinking, “Who would the readers be, if fund-raising were baseball? Would they be the A-Rod — MVP, probably the best player ever? …Nah, he’s kind of whiny. The Babe Ruth? He …

We’re at 98 percent, and I’d love to stay up and hit refresh until we get to the end, but I just can’t; I simply must get some sleep. If by some chance you polish …

Because Tim Minear is, as all of you are, awesome, he’s donated a signed Wonderfalls script to the pile o’ prizes. Thanks to reader Allyson for midwifing that — and, while I’m up, to the …

I just received an email from Charles at Donors Choose with the header “Claire Danes’ manager just called…”

And he and Claire love your challenge. Claire will be sending you a signed DVD complete set of …

…at percent 66. Well done, lads and lasses. Very well done indeed. About 12K to go before we hit the initial goal.
In the meantime: ping-pong.

55 percent. That’s close to twenty thousand dollars. In 27 hours.
Y’all don’t fuck around, do you.
What a coincidence, neither do I. Time for another mini-prize! Let’s tackle some classroom supplies. Receipts forwarded to me for …

As of this writing: 37 percent.
(When I started writing the post? 36 percent. I love it when that happens.)
A few administrative notes….
1. Check out the leaderboard. Words fail me.
2. The following people need to stop …

(not a MSCL quote)
 
Eighteen percent already.In fourteen hours.That?Is awesome.
 
I’d love to talk more about your awesomeness, but I have to go measure the bathroom stalls down the hall to see if the tomato costume is …

Aw, Mr. Katimski.
I put up the contest, I went to bed, I got up, and what do you know, as of this writing we’ve got 4% of the official goal and three (3) projects already …