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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Kaos visit

Kaos apparently got a kick out of SOMETHING I said. So he wrote me to ask how I found his blog. (I saw it on NewsBlues.) I told him:

Through your blog and others I'm starting to see that almost an *alarming* number of television people -- reporters -- have blogs. At least, it surprises me... and surprises me how many of them are easy to connect to their real-life selves. I have very minute back-channel style clues on TopStoryLive as to where I work, and I'd have to say all the pieces are there to be put together -- and it would greatly help the "detective" if you actually KNEW me, so it's like, my coworkers could know but haven't brought it up with me.

Then Kaos opened the floodgates, saying, "Tell me a little about yourself."

I just turned 27 this weekend. (That, too, was going on during flooding throughout Rhode Island and the death of a colleague -- and now the huge dam ready to break. Not that I really celebrated my birthday this weekend at all with anything other than taking Friday off and opening presents on Sunday.)

I'm a redhead, so I get all the guys who've never done a redhead coming after me. I'm 5'6", but I'm 180 pounds. That is no exaggeration, it's what the freakin' scale at the gym says. I need to go more often but the momentum is difficult to achieve. It doesn't help that it's across town.

I don't know, are you looking for the sales pitch to the potential date, or the more general all-around bio? 8^D (tilt your head sideways -- that is me with glasses, pointy nose and big grin)

I've been producing for a station in Providence, RI for about three years, after having been an associate producer/writer/fill-in producer, and before that an associate producer/writer/producer trainee in Hartford, CT, and before THAT I was at the station I'm at now working only weekends as an assignment editor, and before that I was in college in Boston.

I'm from Oregon. Boston had everything I'd want: television, radio, film, and theatre, essentially in that order. I was a theatre geek in high school and for some reason went all-television when I entered college.

I'm a news producer, but in college did as much as I could on camera. Well, almost. Dabbled in radio, film, and fictional TV. These days I am supposedly fulfilling my performance interest by volunteering for a radio reading service for the blind; we read the daily paper and other periodicals and so on and so forth live on the air. However, what with another one of the producers having wangled her way into an on-air/producing hybrid position, I'm starting to get the jealousy bug and want to at least try my hand and do some resume/audition/practice tape(s) just so people can say (and I'd probably want a number of them to say it before I gave up and stayed production side) "No, you don't belong on camera at all," or something equally discouraging.

The other thing is, some days I want to be more commentary-like and less objective. Or I'd love to get into producing/hosting a local sort of magazine show...

With the birthday this week and all, it makes me wonder, should I have a long-term plan, should I immediately take action and switch gears, or what?

Then again, I have no interest in being recognized at the supermarket.

That sounds like it gives you more than enough to get an idea of who's reading your blog. If it makes you feel any better it's probably due to reading The Kaos Blog and Palabra Jot - Palabra Jot that I have now bitten the bullet and joined NLGJA. So perhaps I will actually become good at networking.

For some reason this reminded me of wondering if I'm too shallow.

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