Oprah

10Oct09

Came to our town recently.  Last night, actually.  Well, she sent her people.  She is apparently looking for the best karaoke singers across the country.

I was so looking forward to writing a series of posts on how I got to sing for Oprah, but it was never meant to be.  I stopped by the filming location last night (which happens to be one of my favorite places anyway, so I was looking forward to it!) and ended up waiting outside the door for an hour because they were over capacity.  And it was chilly without a coat, even for me.

As I waited in the cold surrounded by cranky chain smokers I was able to listen through the windows to the competing singers.  Several of them were utterly talented.

See, when I was younger it was really important to me to be famous.  I wanted to be a talk show host, singer, actor, whatever, when I got older so that people would think I was important.  However, last night after I finally gave up and got back into my warm car to head for home, I realized that it had worked out for the best.  The singers I saw performing were more talented than I by a vast margin.  Also, I thought to myself, wow…if ever I were famous and needed to tour because of some talent/fame related job, I would have to leave everything that I have now.  In other words I would have to leave everything that I love right now.  I tell my students all the time that I am just one of those nerds who really sincerely loves my job.  Oddly there is this little part of me that thinks…I don’t know that I could happily live long without it.  I actually like it that much.  Sometimes I wonder how all of this happened…

That being said, it still would have been really cool to be on the Oprah show.

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