I'm being interviewed for a magazine in Dallas and I loathe answering questions about myself. "What are you known for?" I mean, honestly that depends on who you ask. I probably shouldn't do this intoxicated.
I was drunk when the producers for Naked and Afraid called to interview me for casting. Only reason I didn't make it to in-person interviews was I wasn't willing to go 3 weeks without my anti-brain seizure medication. **Edit to add: the best part was when my wife got on the phone with them, at one point telling them "well y'all can save money on editing because you won't need to blur out much"
It's just one of those things that I'd rather have a verbal exchange on than to type things out, because typing feels really awkward in this sense.
I feel ya. I have to do that a bit for work and it always feels disingenuous. I get why people do it -- they want to have a statement written down they can refer to, quote as necessary, and compare against notes and other statements -- but whatever happened to talking to someone with a recorder and transcribing it later? The upside for you is, when you type it out it gives you the ability to more carefully choose your words and "sound" more refined and intentional than you might come across otherwise, but I can always tell when I'm reading something and they got their quotes in that manner. I come from a journalism background and maybe I'm just old school about it, but E-mailing with a list of questions and just pulling quotes from the answers feels like cheating to me.
I love the ability to proofread what I'm saying, but at the same time I don't want to come across like I'm writing an essay. I want the authenticity that over editing can dilute. I am super grateful for the exposure but I hate being questioned about what makes me interesting or stand out because...I don't know how to water some things down.
well if it's for the Dallas crowd, you'd fit right in if you gave off the sterile, stilted language, botox fake, uppity vibes.
I hear ya. I was invited to talk to our local Rotary Club about my book ( by a candidate for State Assembly no less ) and at first I was really reluctant. But then he said it was a Zoom meeting, and I'd only need to talk about 10 minutes, so I agreed. I'm still not thrilled with it, because I don't like talking about myself. But I'm coming around to the idea that if I want to sell books, I have to do stuff like this. So I'll do it and hope I can be interesting enough.
Ideally it’ll resonate with the Fort Worth vibe, since that’s where I work. I’m very very obviously not a Dallas girl. It’s too constricting and limiting.
It’s very weird to have playoff hockey going on at noon on Wednesday in August. I am so glad I work from home. No way I could work in the office with exciting shit on tv.
Welp... time to start drinking. God dammit I hope we get a freaking decent offensive FA this off-season.
“Go frogs!” is kinda hilarious because the salon is close enough to TCU I get a LOT of sorority girls in my chair and they all leave saying that.
Yeah I’m shocked my brother made it out of there without getting half of them pregnant. I forget which frat he was in but it they were all quite proud of their frogs. My limited experiences with them are the reason I hate sororities and fraternities as a rule.
Yeah; too bad we can't say the same thing about your boys. HEY-YO!!! Really though, my parents didn't get married until they had both been out of college for years, and even then, it was about another 15 years until I came along.