In the past seventy-two hours I have gotten about nine hours of sleep. As of this morning when I left for school to rush off to an exam, I was completely exhausted, my clothes were rumpled, and I had not had time to wash my hair. (I have washed my hair religiously everyday since an incident involving being described as a ferret, but I could not afford to take time away from studying for basic hygiene.) Needless to say, I was not looking my best.
So naturally, when I was in the campus bookstore along with probably seven hundred Patriots fans, a crew from The Today Show approached me for an interview. I know virtually nothing about basketball, I am generally lacking in school spirit, and I have never been to a Mason athletic event, so clearly, I was an excellent choice for an interviewee.
It was not my finest hour. I guess I was tired and a bit flustered, because I started speaking and just couldn’t stop. At the beginning of the five minute interview, I was too nervous to sound normal, and by the end, I sounded like a parrot who could not stop waxing poetic about being a “commuter school” and how this has “put Mason on the map”. I think I may have said something semi-intelligent in the middle, but that was surely tempered by the fact that my hair looked limp and stringy and my eyes were bloodshot from exhaustion.
At least there is a strong possibility that this will appear on national television. That makes me feel much better.