waaaaah!

I just had lunch with a friend who had also gone to the interview for the TV show and they told her right away that they wanted her, while they told me they'd "call me next week". So even though the week is only half-way over, I think my budding TV talkshow career is all the way over. I think that if they didn't tell me right away, that they won't tell me at all, so I will just add it to my list of almosts, along with any play I ever tried out for after high school and all of the decent flats I looked at while looking for a place to live (well, even the really decrepit ones had just been taken). Next time I will try for loud, obnoxious, pushy instead of my usual mild-mannered self and see if that gets me anywhere. I had nothing to lose anyway, and it was a fun experience. Right?

Another kind of star

On Tuesday I got a call from a woman I hadn't seen or heard from in about 3 years. She left me a message saying a friend of hers is producing a new daytime tv talkshow and are looking for people of different nationalities to participate in a weekly roundtable to discuss current events. They were looking for an American (me!) who speaks good Spanish (also me!) and who is nice (but of course, me!). So I called up Juan Carlos the producer and he had me come in for an audition on Thursday. I went and met one of the writers, who had lived in New York for 5 years as a kid and was wholy unimpressed that I was from Colorado. He seemed to think I grew up wearing skirts and skipping through fields and milking cows instead of being a real American, which was for him someone from New York. Ugh, I hate it when I meet foreigners who think there's nothing more to the US than NY or LA. Unhappily, a girl walked in right after me from New York (bi-atch) and the writer and her became fast friends while I sat quietly trying to think of something to say about New York so he would be interested in me again. Aaanyway, next I went into the meeting with the directors and some writers, I guess I don't really know who they were. They grilled me on current events and asked if I had access to info on events from the American point of view, to give a spin to the show. I don't know what they really thought of me, but seems to smile and nod appropriately. So they either loved me or were giving me sympathetic encouragement. I'll find out next week if I get to go on to the next step as token foreign girl...