Earlier in the week my coworker Laura had told me they were coming and that I ought to look sharp and wear my Smithsonian-Logo shirt in case they wanted to film me working in the lab. I didn't take her warning as seriously as I should have, and I showed up at work unshaven and wearing my favorite "Alice in Chains" t-shirt. Whoops.
It was clear that they were really going to film me, though, so I scrambled to set up a fake seagrass-sorting workspace in the lab across the hall, which has more room and better lighting than the cluttered office where I actually work. Pretty soon I was mic'd-up in front of a tray of seagrass with all kinds of lights and cameras everywhere, and young, professional tv actors running around.
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Molly, the main adult host of the show, and Jen, one of the kid hosts of the show, asked me a couple questions for the camera that I tried to answer in a brief, entertaining, kids-show kind of way. I was kind of nervous, partly because Molly was SUPER HOT with HYPNOTIZING EYES, but I think I faked pretty well that I was cool and collected.
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After the interview the hosts left but the cameramen stayed for a while to get some close-up shots of the seagrass and stuff as I was picking through it. I don't know if any of the material in my segment was tv-worthy, or if my dumb-ass Alice in Chains t-shirt spoiled it all, but I guess we'll see in a while if it makes the cut.
5 comments:
Proud parent's nightmare: TV people show up to film whiz kid scientist son at work and he's wearing a grunge band T-shirt and a day old beard. Boy! Ain't we learnt you better than that?
I'm certain I wouldn't have been able to concentrate. Your not kidding, even blurry she is hot! Doesn't help I have a soft spot for redheads.
Now you shoud call her up and see if they want to do a segment on windsurfing.
Did you get her number?!?
Pa- It weren't nuthin y'all learnt me. I done fouled up on my ownsome.
Outdrsmn- Yeah, you should have seen her in focus. That's a good idea about the windsurfing segment.
Van- If only I'd been so bold, eh?
Wow, we never had tv presenters that hot when I was a kid!
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