I love the media. Must be my past life as a college journalist. Interesting situations tend to find me, as do interesting reporters:
* The interview that was televised on New Media News when American Girl threatened me with trademark infringement. This was syndicated globally. I have a pen-pal in Brazil who initially wrote to me because he saw me on TV. Pretty cool!
* Office politics. I don’t know why the reporter thought that I’d have anything to say about that topic, and it was tough to find something I could say on-the-record, but I managed…
* My most exciting appearance in 1998 was an article in Baylife, a special section produced for the Sunday, March 8 issue of the San Francisco Examiner. This was the second of a three-part section, and discussed present-day life in the Bay Area. Here’s what reporter Brenda L. Moore had to say about me:
Motormouth, 26, grew up in the East Bay, graduated from San Jose State, lives in Redwood City and works in San Francisco.
She loves her living arrangements – a shared, three-bedroom house with a nice kitchen and garden. Her portion of the rent is $775 a month.
She loves the location – great neighbors, close to her family in Walnut Creek, and to her boyfriend in San Francisco.
She loves the weather, suitable for outdoor activities like running, biking and swimming that appeal to a triathlete like Motormouth.
She loves her job – marketing and communications director at IBIS Consulting, Inc. She got a call to interview there two hours after posting her resume on an Internet job board.
“I wake up every morning and just pinch myself,” she said. She also wakes up pretty early. Her previous job was a mile from home, meaning she could sometimes roll out of bed about 8:30 a.m. and make it there by 9. Now, she said, she gets up between 6 and 7:30 a.m. for a commute that lasts 1.5 to 2 hours.
It’s not that bad, though,” she said, in what seems like characteristic optimism. “It doesn’t seem like that long. I can work on (Caltrain). I can read… I can go for weeks without using my car.”
(Pretty neat, huh? There was even a picture of me reclining on our office pool table, surrounded by Caltrain passes. 🙂