Well, dear readers, you won’t believe it. I didn’t believe it until my alarm went off, then I believed it plenty. I had to get up at six o’clock this morning to do a phone interview with a radio station in the mid-west, about the book. Yes, Virginia, I, who was exhausted after a long first day at work, had to get up at six o’clock and be charming and amusing. All I can say is, thank goodness the lady I did the interview with did most of the talking. Thankfully, she’d loved the book and just went on and on about it in some detail, so I just got to sit there on my couch like so much fish and say pithy and quaint things like “yes”, “thank you”, “it’s available at”, “yes, it is early”. In any case, it was a very nice way to start a day, and she liked the book for all the right reasons.
I arrived for my first day of work yesterday and was immediately told that the network wanted a five minute showy sound bite reel from the piece we’d shot over the weekend – and they wanted it by the end of the day. So, instead of my getting used to things again, learning new formats and getting the lay of the land, I found myself helping to put together a reel, which took nine hours to do. The good news is that it all came back to me very quickly and I do think I helped move things along at a snappy pace. The bad news is that it all came back to me very quickly. This is not going to be easy, dear readers, because in series’ television you are always up against some kind of deadline like that. But the people seem nice and I think everything will be fine and dandy and also dandy and fine. That said, suddenly I must go out of town again for two days. Not only that, I must be “talent” – they want me to appear onscreen in this thing (which I can’t really talk about in detail – I’m sworn to secrecy at this time). I agreed to do it this time, but I really do not want to work on the weekends again after this and I will be quite strong about it.
Today I shall get the lay of the land. One must always get the lay of the land otherwise one shall be layless, land-wise, and that is wholly unacceptable. I brought up psychics yesterday, because a very sweet person recently told me that I had a very good aura, which made me very happy. Certainly I didn’t want a bad aura. She said many nice things, and many positive things, but she also said to be careful of jealous, envious people who have at one time been around me. And then what happened on that newsgroup happened, which I found very interesting indeed. I was very pleased that dear reader Michael Shayne posted the information in the first place, but I knew the minute I saw his post that what happened would happen. I knew it with a certainty, and it happened within fifteen minutes. I’m also glad it happened, because maybe this will teach a lesson about bad behavior and bad form to that gentleman. Bad form is something one needs to learn – like the lay of the land. In any case, the genteman with too much unknown and unpublished information has conveniently disappeared into thin air. Of course, who didn’t expect that to happen?
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, so we can see what the lay of the land is.
So, this is the lay of the land. I had no idea. It’s so different than I’d imagined it would be. What the hell am I talking about?
Tonight I’m going to try our grand experiment – we’re going to do Ask BK Day, and I’m going to see if I have the energy to actually answer your excellent questions tonight. As I said yesterday, try to limit multiple questions to three. I think it will be just fine that way.
I am so excited about finding out the lay of the land. Perhaps, while I’m at it, I’ll also find out the land of the lay. The Land of the Lay. That sounds like an adult version of a Sid and Marty Krofft show, doesn’t it?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must drive on the freeway, I must learn the lay of the land and work, work, work (that is three works). Oh, and the good news is that I am online at work and will be able to check in during the day. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? So, it’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask your excellent questions. Ask away, my pretties.