Hunting UFOs

So when I was in elementary school... fifth or sixth grade... I became a nerd, geek, whatever you want to call me. I fell in love with Star Wars and Star Trek. Like for real. Hah. If you're ever lucky enough to see my room at my parent's, which, I might add, is fully intact, you will notice two center calendar spreads of the starship Enterprise and that a full fourth of my book collection in that room is Star Wars books.

It all began innocently enough with watching Star Trek: The Next Generation with my parents at 10 on weeknights. Re-runs, of course. I guess it really began earlier than that. See, my school had this program called "Pegasus" where a group of about 15 students from the 5th and 6th grades in elementary were asked to essentially leave school for two days and become the crew and mission control of our very own space shuttle simulator Pegasus. It was awesome. We got to do science experiments and activities, and then conclude the adventure with an actual simulation of the space shuttle launch, mission, and landing. Fantastic, right?!

The instigator of this program was a third grade teacher named Mrs. Hanebut. She was amazing. And I blame my obsession with science fact and fiction on her. So anyway, I digress...

So I would watch with my parents and I felt pretty cool because I was able to stay up late. One of the perks of being the oldest, I suppose.

That led to my fascination with Sci-fi in general, and led me one day a book rack at Albertsons and specifically to a book for young adults about the children of Han and Leia. I was intrigued. And thus began my collection of a ridiculous number of Star Wars books.

And yet, I have fallen far from where I was going with this whole blog post in the first place. Being that it is opening weekend for the Star Trek movie, you may think you know where this is going, but, no indeed, you do not.

See folks, apparently I'm going to be working next week on the History Channel show UFO Hunters. Not even joking. It's going to be awesome, and I think that the 6th grade geek in me is going to come out with a vengeance. I'll let you know how it goes...