be on television

I was actually on TV yesterday as part of BBC children in need!
-Well to be honest you could hardly see me(I was pretty much at the back of a group of people)-but it’s good enough for me!
I’m going to remove this goal from my list now!

When I was elected into Krystal’s Hall Of Fame back in ‘06, the local Fox news station ran a story on it and interviewed me. Very nerve racking to have a camera on you and hard to be yourself, but such a thrill to see yourself on TV.

I’ve been on local cable access and internet television before, but I think this is the first time I was invited to be on real broadcast television.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS7pRUt_rKg

And… it’s the first time I’ve ever tried to lick my elbow on real broadcast television.

Just in the background would be fine.
Goodness knows why I want to do this, but I really do!

Not quite the way I imagined it….
I ended up on the local news while working out at the gym! They were doing a segment on exercise and asked to film me while I was on the treadmill. The only thing I would have done differently is I would have worn some mascara!

This is not at all what I meant when I said I wanted to be on television, but I think everything happens exactly the way it is supposed to. It’s definately different and its one thing I have done on my list!

i was on tv three times, once when they were interviewing my neighbor i walked behind them, Once while the news was interviewing brent butt i walked behind him and made the evening news, and in a commercial i co-wrote and co-stared in for my school.

I hope to be on television one day of my life. I want to inspire little kids to be a superstar like I am.

I had an opportunity to sit up all night between 2 Spring Exams.

It paid $100 & I wasn’t proud.

It was a Canadian Tire ad. I was a vague ‘shopper’ wandering in the background, while somebody filmed a giant credit card in someone’s hands. very odd.

I only saw it once or twice. It wasn’t a terrific ad, but my very tired moment. Which considering the number of times it ran, probably added up to 15 minutes.

However, I’m repeatedly told my SiL spoke to the UN while in High School.

sigh

The Girl Scouts in Charlottesville (about 75 minutes west of me) organized “Operation Cookie” to send one box of cookies to each soldier in my unit in Iraq. They blew through the original goal of 700 boxes and may have even doubled it! Anyway, they had a packing and shipping party last night, and I was invited as a soldier just back from Iraq and as public affairs officer of my unit.

The Charlottesville TV station interviewed me, and I’ve seen the story on the web site. I haven’t yet had the nerve to look at the video, though.

in 1983, when a made-for-TV movie called The Day After was broadcast, picturing the lives of people in Lawrence, Kansas (where I happened to live), just before & after a nuclear attack.

A town meeting was called for the day after the movie aired, with lots of national & even international media gathered to see what folks in the U.S. heartland had to say about the threat of nuclear war. I attended with some friends & brought along my babe-in-arms, Graham (yeah, the same one who is now fixing to become a human rights lawyer).

The meeting quickly became quite tedious, with representatives of various activist organizations taking turns making plugs for their groups at the microphones. The mayor finally intervened & said, “You know, I think it would be really great to hear from some moms—what do you think should be done about the threat of a nuclear confrontation between the superpowers?”

I took the bait & made my way up, carrying Graham with his big eyes & shiny red hair, & of course the journalists suddenly got very interested. (Here’s my tip based on this experience & others: if you’re going to a public event for a cause you believe in, take your kids along! It’s good education for them, & the cameras love little ones.) I spoke very briefly about how Russian mothers might feel about the risks to their own children & how we needed to put a stop to the nuclear buildup.

Went home & continued with a typical mother-of-small-children day. That night we got several long-distance calls: “You were on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather! I was just sitting there watching & all of a sudden I jumped out of my chair because you appeared holding Graham in your arms!” Amusing because we didn’t watch TV, so we never saw it ourselves. However, NPR used a clip for the All Things Considered news show, & that we did catch. It was a kick to hear my name pronounced by Susan Stamberg-she was my favorite newscaster. :)