I’d be a great roommate (or… nervous energy released)

So three weeks ago a friend linked me to this video.

(robots apparently do not make the best roommates, good news for me!)

The museum is looking for a new roommate??? Oh my goodness!!! I just had to apply (more on that later)

So, Month at the Museum 2. How awesome is that? Last years winner got to have some of the most amazing experiences (starting with the awesome selection ceremony below, I wonder how the winner is going to be chosen this time…)

(so much orange foam!!!!)

That’s right. Kate won last year (hopefully I’ll be next!). Her entire month was spent doing exciting things around the museum and blogging the whole time. (click on the photos below to go to some of my favorite posts).

she did a handstand in the tornado!

got to hang out with the artifacts that are NOT on display.
(including an oscar!)

slept under the globe AND got to hang out on the wing of a 727
(I wonder if you can do a pirouette on an airplane wing)

Along with the awesome blog posts, Kate also documented her stay with videos. Below are two of my favorites (mostly because they deal with night-time in the museum).

( I wanted to sleep in the Giant Heart that I explored as a kid, but it’s been replaced…
I wonder if they would leave the new heart turned on so I could sleep near that…)

(flashlights make everything more fun)

While reading Kate’s posts and watching the videos was fun, they only made me wish that I had applied last year. I just know that actually experiencing a month in the museum would be incredible. Can you jump any higher within a tornado? How long does it take for one baby chick to free it’s self from an egg? Do the fairies come out of the castle to play at night? There are so many things to play with (and so much to learn) I want to be that roommate (and with Month at the Museum 2, I have my chance)! So…. Within 4 days of learning about the contest I sent out my application (learn more here). 6 Pages of questions, a 500 word essay, a 1 minute long video and 1 awesome FedEx employee later my package was on its way to the museum (it was delivered just 3 days before the deadline).

Funny note: the photo of me was actually a test shot to see if I liked the background, we
took about 20 more shots with me posing and smiling but I kept coming back to this one.
As Genie would say “BEEEE yourself”



(I love post-it notes!)

I thought I had gotten in rather late, and actually ran out Sunday night to make sure I could meet the deadline. But according to MSI’s twitter account (@msichicago)”Many “Month at the Museum” apps being dropped off in person at ticket counters – under an hour left! http://bit.ly/MATM2 #MATM2“. Guess I wasn’t such a late applicant after all…

This of course is only stage 1… Stage 2 (Semi-finalists)  involves a phone interview, Stage 3 (Finalists) involves an in-person interview as well as public voting, Stage 4…. MOVE IN (go all the way man!!!!)

I can’t keep myself from wondering what the judges think of my essay and the rest of my application. Have I shown them what an awesome time we could have together? Did I make an interesting enough video? Time will tell, we should be hearing who moved on to the semi-finals mid August (which should be soon!). Random thought: I started this blog post to work off some of my nervous energy (but really, I’m just more excited now… but excitement is fun too!).

My only way of knowing who else has applied is searching youtube, below you’ll find some of my favorite videos. Good luck to everyone who has applications in! Hopefully we’ll hear who’s moving on soon (crossing my fingers I’m one of the lucky ones!!!)

Oh, also… Kate’s video from last year!