I've had a couple of months to decompress from the summer adventure. The positive support and excitement that I've experienced from friends, colleagues, students, and anyone interested in my story has been very heartwarming. A lot of people were genuinely excited for me, and that makes me feel very loved. In fact, once a student asked me an acting question since he had just seen my local commercial that morning, and I mentioned Los Angeles this summer...the whole class snapped to attention and bombarded me with questions. I had to cut it short as we were definitely getting off-track for the day, but it was nice to see their excitement.

It's VERY hard for me to quickly sum up what the summer was like for me when someone asks "How as your summer?" So, I enjoy having a Q&A instead of me trying to summarize in 30-seconds what I did. Usually, I suggest they take a look at my blog in order to get the best snapshot of the six weeks out there.  The best chance that I had to sit down and debrief what it was really like in detail was when I did a local radio interview. I was asked by a local radio station, WBOI 89.1, to talk about my story on air. And to make the story even cooler, the interviewer was a former journalism student of mine from about ten years ago, Katy Anderson. Here's the WBOI page about me along with the 5:40-long interview. 

Also...Katy was gracious enough to cut together the entire 20-minute interview for me into this MP3.

I recently received the finished version of the commercial that I described in detail in earlier posts for The General Insurance. It is a national insurance commercial that will begin airing shortly. You gotta look quick, I'm not on there very long. They shot a LOT of takes of my partner and I, and based on some of the personal comments with me off camera, I expected a few extra shots to make it, but they must've run out of time (and space) in the commercial to fit everything in.  It looks pretty sharp.