it shouldn't surprise anyone that i've been geeky for my entire lifespan.

that would explain why that as a teenager (a) mystery science theater 3000 was my favorite show (taped religiously) led to (b) applying for an internship when one came up.

i think i saw the ad was in the strib. then, as now, i believe i can do a very good cover letter, or at least one that gets noticed, which indeed happened. i was summoned to best brains hq over in the tangle of eden prairie's streets one day. which was the utmost in nerve-wracking. i got to meet people i admired. and oh, yeah, didn't know what this was going to be.

this was after the person who was on the show that i happened to know, josh (j. elvis) weinstein left. i used to go to school with him (grade behind) and worked summers with him at a day camp. (random aside- when i did go to an mst3k convention, because, duh, i'm geeky, that seemed to impress people. why, i don't know. i do find it funny that somewhere in my stash of photos i have him in a camp t-shirt surrounded by his charges).

when i got there, me and the other few people there got a tour of the set, prop shop, drive-by of the staff there (joel, trace, mike, etc.) and such, plus a job interview of sorts (i think jim did that part, it was too long ago for my pointless memory to sort out), all of which was cool. well, not so much the interview. it would've gone better had i some high school theater, puppetmaking, or some sort of cred to back me up and probably if i wasn't so nervius. i didn't so much think about the lack of experience when i applied because i was pretty sure that people with actual experience would apply.

but hey, letter writing skills got me in the door.

but it's not like they had writing interns, though.

i still watched the show, because my lack of crushin disappointment.