To make my website a little more interesting I have been doing interviews. They are are NOT the “send me a list of questions-I’ll answer-you print them-we’re done” kind of interview. They are interactive thru yahoo I/M between my victim…er….subject and me. I do not ask the same bloody questions everyone else has asked. I do a lot of research and spend a lot of time getting to know the person I am going to interview. I look at old interviews, join groups that are fans of that person and talk to lots of people one on one before I jot down my questions, load them up in I/M and let ‘er rip. Simple really……Until today. And after today I might have to hang up my journalism shingle in the bathroom-never to be brought out again.

Six months ago I asked a very famous and well respected model if he would mind being interviewed for my website. He is a very talented writer as well as being drop dead gorgeous. He said yes, we’ll hook up blah,blah,blah. Being as busy as we both are we never found a time we would both be free to do this thing so I put it off. Until now. The interview is on the horizon- time to do the research. I dug into the deepest recesses of the internet, found old interviews-check. Joined some groups to get ideas for questions that people might want to ask him if given the chance-check. One on one talks with his fans-OMG!!! Who are these people and thank god no one knows anything about me. My last “chat” was last night and it went on for almost THREE HOURS-with one little old lady!!!!!

Now most of the people who know me know I am fundamentally shy. Yes I said SHY. I don’t like crowds. I don’t like people asking me personal questions. I don’t like celebrity at ALLLLLL. Being a DJ sorta cured me of ever wanting to be in the limelight. Another story for another day as Lex would say. SOOOO Granny what’s her name is a sweet woman with a very active life that includes keeping tabs on my modeling friend. She talks about him as if he were one of her 17 grandkids. This woman knows EVERYTHING there is to know about this man. Half the information she was offering me I really DID NOT want to know….talk about TMI. I may look at nude pics and drool like everyone else but this guy happens to be a friend, all be it a cyber friend, but someone I care very deeply for. And honestly there are some things I just do not want to know about my friends. But being the professional I am I let her go, dropping in questions every now and then because she really was enjoying talking about her favorite subject-sorry grandkids that’s what she said.

I spent the time jotting questions into the computer, absently making notes of possible alternate questions in the event the conversation took a left turn. Until she said “Do you want to know how long it is?” WHAT?? Coke all over the keyboard, papers went flying and if she hadn’t been on speaker phone I would have dropped the phone!

My mind was racing-please tell me that’s not what she said, please tell me that’s not what she said. “Dearie are you still there? Me and the girls were just talking about this the other day and we think he has the best looking ……..” NO!! WAIT. DON’T TELL ME! I was punching buttons on the new phone and reaching for the handset and she was cutting in and out. Stop laughing. I know you”d be anxious to find out that little tidbit of info. And maybe if it was someone I did not know on a personal level I probably would have been anxiously jotting down measurements. But he is a friend and I have no interest in what he has going on between the navel and the knees. So I hit a few more buttons and kept from hearing the pertinent info. Thanked Granny for her time and hung up.

It’s been about 24 hours now since I hung up with Granny what’s her name, replaced the keyboard on the desktop computer and transfered the notes from our discussion into a file for this interview. And sadly, I think I’m going to have to bag this interview. I’m really afraid I’ll be toast when he answers the question “I hear you have recently finished penning a romance novel.” Because with my luck he’s going to answer “As a matter of fact I have. Do you want to know how long it is?”

TTFN