I want to win an Emmy.

Story time:  I was in 7th grade.  I had an awesome, amazing “industrial ed” teacher.  It was basically wood-shop, where we got to work with cool, crazy tools and make pencil holders and such.  Our teacher, Lew Blond had us write a paper about what we wanted to be when we grew up.

It was an easy assignment for me. You see, I was totally obsessed with “Days of Our Lives.”  I decorated all my books with Days, the planner, my TrapperKeeper…all of it, was Days of Our Lives.  So I wrote about wanting to be on tv.  I wanted to be a soap opera actress. ( I did have a typo in my paper- apparently I wrote “I want to be on a tv”…and I remember Mr. Blond drawing a stick figure on top of a tv on my paper!)

Aside from the daily drama of soaps, I was super-obsessed with award shows…especially the daytime Emmy awards. I remember being so upset when Days would lose out.  Oh the shame! I would practice my speech and clear places in my bedroom for the Emmy Award, should I finally win one.

As I went off to high school, I had no concept of HOW to become an actress.  I figured, since soap operas were on television, that I should learn about that!  So my first semester of my freshman year, I signed up for Intro to Broadcasting.  A semester later, I realized that I learned all about radio and television production, but little about acting.  The thing was, I didn’t care.  I was not interested in hanging with the theatre people, and I found I was actually good at the tv and radio thing!

That was in 1990…so now, almost 20 years later…I’m actually nominated for my very own Emmy.

You can see for yourself!
http://www.suncoastchapter.org/emmy/2009emmynominations/2009EmmyNominations.aspx
(I’m in category 52!)

This is what I was nominated for:

http://www.cfnews13.com/Space/MissionToHubble/Default.aspx

Wish me luck!