Heros

When an academic hero of yours at NYU hears about the little project you are running all the way across the country in your small woodland glen and talks to you on the phone (like in person and everything) to tell you he is "excited by your work" and wants to know if he can "help in any way" and "what you are doing is exciting and important" and "I'll get it published for you, if you don't have the time to write" and wants to set up another time to talk and thinks your methods are "better" than his original research.....well, its a weird and wonderful day for a chipmunk who almost didn't graduate high school because she flunked geometry...twice.