I'm not so famous!

Over the summer I was googled by a New Testament scholar from Stuttgart.  All he came up with were the Mormon Studies conferences I had organized while doing my Masters degree at Claremont Graduate University.  While not optimal for potential employment it did give me an opportunity to tell scholars from Stuttgart, Princeton and the Pontifica in Rome about the LDS church and the Mormon studies department at CGU.  Future google results have hopefully been remedied by getting myself (and resume) up on Academia.edu.

As for the semi-famous bit.  Last night one of the girls in my building asked me what I had done in Hollywood.  Eventually it came out that I am IN an episode of JAG.  You see, the boss had written himself a part (named his character Hugh Blackadder) in the final cliff-hanger episode of season 3.  I said, "Well, if you've written a part for yourself are you going to write a part for me?"  Which is how I wound up playing the Second Russian Desk clerk in an old hotel in downtown Los Angeles one warm afternoon in 1998.

Anyway, I have a DVD of the episode but for some reason it wouldn't play on my computer.  For fun I pulled up YouTube and found a clip from the show.  Low and behold - there I was for all the world to see.  It was a hoot and the small crowd that had gathered in my room were suitably impressed - or they were just humoring me with a round a applause. 

While they had stars in their eyes I remember two things:  1) being terrified when the director Tony Wharmby (who I adored) came up and asked if I was ready for my close up and 2) the white shirt that was part of my hotel uniform had Trisha Yearwood's name in it from when she had guest starred on the show a few weeks earlier.  Ahh, good memories.  Now back to work on the thesis and my new life.  PS: Thanks Don - for everything - Love Always, Beth