Do one thing every day that scares you

So today, I did something that scared me. I had a phone interview with Three Corpse Circus LLC for a Sponsorship Coordinator position. I had homework, to watch these shorts from their previous festivals and---oh. I should mention that Three Corpse Circus is a horror film festival that a group of friends started a few years back. For the hour leading up to the interview, I freaked. I asked myself what the hell I was doing looking at a position for a HORROR film festival. This, coming from the girl who had to be tied to a chair to watch Goosebumps as a kid. (Literally. My friends did that to me.) From the girl who was terrified to even go door-to-door selling Girl Scout cookies to my own neighbors.

When 3:00 rolled around, I was terrified of picking up the phone. The little girl in my head told me to turn the ringer off and bury myself under the covers until something else happened and I could pretend to forget about what an asshat I was. But I took a deep breath. Waited for the phone to vibrate three times. Answered. Chris was very cool, with a disarming voice and even more disarming questions. I feel like it went really well. I did an off-the-cuff pitch and talked about my thoughts on the horror genre and I asked him about his favorite horror movie. (I had questions for the interviewer! I never do that!)

I had asked myself what the hell I was doing applying to this sort of job, and the more I wrote about it the more I was convinced that it could be good for me. I did a good job selling myself during the interview, I'm proud to say. If I were to get this job, I would be pushing my boundaries. It's something I've never thought of myself doing, and that kind of excites me, especially in this strange transition part of my life. I'll get a phone call on Tuesday morning to let me know if I've passed to the next round of interviews, so there isn't going to be much of a wait for me here, but in the mean time, whether I get the job or not, I'll just be satisfied with the fact that I answered that phone and got excited about something new.