Yesterday morning, I bounced bright-eyed and bushy-tailed into Campaign Academy HQ, only to find an ominous email from Mark announcing that a news crew was coming by to do a story on Campaign Academy. Naturally, I was filled with panic. Although I am passionate about politics and the work that we do here, I am not exactly known for my discretion and palatable sound bytes, and was seized with terror that if a microphone were placed in front of me, I might accidentally say something I would later regret, like "Socialism now!" or "PATRICK ROSE WILL YOU MARRY ME."
(This of course was silly. Like I could ever regret proposing to Patrick Rose.)
When reporter Elise Hu showed up, Mark tried to help me out.
"This is Elisa, she's sort of a journalist but more of a writer and she really doesn't want to be on television ever."
Clearly, with this ringing endorsement of my camera savvy, when we broke up into groups to assemble voter registration packets, the person at my table who was randomly selected for a miniature interview was me. This went approximately as well as could be expected: I did not declare my allegiance to the Mole People or proclaim that the truth was out there, but I did ramble painfully about registering voters at this point in the election cycle and everyone knows what an important primary this was for turning out new voters blah blah blah. I actually used the word "arcane."
"I think he was just looking for you to be bouncy and cute," a fellow intern confessed, kindly, as I hyperventilated in a corner. "You know, with the pigtails."
The news story, which fortunately does not feature too much of me, can be found here. Check it out!
The pigtails are deceiving.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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