One Lovely Blog

It's been a good day here at Bekah's Bits. Lynnette Labelle over at Chatterbox Chit Chat gave me the One Lovely Blog award. Lynnette is a new blogging friend that I met through Jody's writing blog.

Thanks, Lynnette, for coming to visit, and for leaving me an award! I've never received a blog award before, so this is exciting stuff!

Here are the rules of the award, but I'll have to get back to the end of it...after discovering some new blogs! (I get stuck in a rut of blogs I know.)

The One Lovely Blog Award Rules:

1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.

2) Pass the award to 5 other bloggers that you’ve newly discovered.

3) Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

This blog award, however, reminds me of another award I received in college that both shocked and amused me.

I took a creative writing course my freshman year, and one of our assignments was to practice character development. We had to create a character in great depth...get to know him or her as well as possible.

We thought that was the end of the assignment.

We were wrong.

Our next assignment was to be paired up with someone of the professor's choosing and collaborate on a script in which our two characters found themselves together in a situation. It was a stretching experience for me to work with a guy who, though nice enough, was my polar opposite. We finished our script....and thought we were done.

We were wrong.

Next assignment? Act it out. I thought about calling in dead...but I went to class. I managed to survive acting in front of the class (which happened to include my crush of the day). I did a HORRIBLE job.

The next time the class met, the professor announced we would be having an Oscar ceremony.

Guess what I won?

Best actress.

Apparently writing a painfully shy character worked to my advantage when it came time to stand before Mr. Cutie and the rest of my peers...

I still have my "Oscar" - a very tiny Cinderella figurine hot-glued on a milk jug lid.