Post-show Update

I haven’t even been able to watch my show yet because I had another appearance scheduled for 15 minutes after. And I haven’t had anything to eat in 24 hours because nothing would go in. Now that it’s all done, I’m very ready for a gigantic burger. Wow, I’ve really been Americanized.

N is happy. It was the dream of his life that I appear on the show. He cultivated the host for months to prepare ground for me to be invited.

He first established contact before the book even appeared in print. Started a conversation with the host, saying, “Great show today! Interesting discussion topic! Here’s what I think…”

Then, after a while, he started saying, “What’s lacking is a discussion of topics XYZ. It would be great if there were somebody you could invite to talk about them.”

After a few weeks, he came back with, “Lookihere, there’s a new book that was just published and it’s all about these topics you and I were saying would be cool to discuss.”

And then, “Hey, do you want me to send you a copy of the book? Maybe invite the author. That would be interesting to watch.”

N never initiates contact with other humans, so it’s huge of him to do this. I’m touched beyond words.

8 responses to “Post-show Update”

  1. methylethyl Avatar

    Aww. He is so proud of you!

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      He now says he won’t rest until I get a 100,000 views on a future appearance. I finally have an empresario! 😃

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  2. donbenham Avatar
    donbenham

    You have a good husband in N.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      The best. I’ve truly lucked out. But I’m very sweet to him, too, honest!

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  3. Avi Avatar
    Avi

    Your are blessed. It was a wonderful interview, but I understood you better in Russian than your interlocutor. Is that because you are a teacher? I found his Russian very opaque.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Wow, you can understand Russian?? That’s impressive.

      I’m a teacher, so I enunciate veeery carefully. :-))

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  4. Avi Avatar
    Avi

    Yes, I graduated in Russian and Scandinavian languages at university, though my spoken Russian is quite rusty now.

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  5. Peter Avatar
    Peter

    Hi Clarissa

    I’ve been following you for a while (even if I haven’t worked out how to read the password controlled blogposts) and thank you for your regular posts!

    I don’t pretend to understand Russian so I didn’t watch the linked interview, but congratulations on the successful interview.

    Please tell N that as a bloke from the UK I am really impressed by the way that he pushed to get you onto this show!

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