Top Ten Throwbacks #3

Thanks for being such good sports and going down memory lane with me! I'm back for the third day of my top ten throwbacks to old blog posts and memories!

I have a feeling that most of us have gotten to enjoy some pretty unique and fun adventures, but we tend to forget those opportunities and just wish for what we've not experienced instead. So today I invite you to see one of my unique moments from years gone by and maybe remember some of your own fun adventures!

Here's the original post about this one! Back when I worked at Indiana Wesleyan, one of the ladies from another department was in charge of finding people to be part of a photo shoot for some promotional materials for the graduate studies program. I'm not sure how or why she thought of me, but she did, and she invited me to be part of it.

Modeling has actually never been a career option for me (HA!) but this was a fun moment dabbling in it. There were three of us who were part of this shoot and we got to know each other QUITE well by the time it was over. I think the thing I learned that surprised me the most was how SMALL those little photo sets are. The three of us were all crammed into each other, constantly being told to smash in even closer, and the lights and camera were right up next to us as well.

Part of the time, I was dressed as a teacher/business person, but part of the time I was dressed as a nurse. They brought in some scrubs and I changed into those for a few of the photos. (Funny almost-blooper from that: I'd worn a dress for the photo shoot, and when I went to change into the scrubs, the top was plenty big, but the pants were snug and I wasn't sure I could get them on. I didn't know what I would do if I couldn't get them on, since I had worn a dress to work and not a top/bottom combo. Fortunately I squeezed into them. I also thought that was probably a good sign I needed to go on a diet.)

Anyway! Some of the photos were used on billboards in Ohio, and some were used on floor displays that recruiters took with them to various locations. One day, a floor display showed up in the building where I worked, so I got to see myself larger than life! (Always scary.)

That was the beginning and end of my modeling career, and I really have no desire to do more of it, except...I do think it would be fun to be a cover model for a fiction book. (You know. The kind of book where they only show the person from the back. HA!)

(I uncovered one of the nurse-in-scrubs photos. Enjoy!)

OH! One time a couple of years later, I was in a commercial for IWU too. I had to walk in the background of whatever was happening. Lots of takes to get that commercial! Alas, I have no proof of it. Scrapbooking fail.

So what about you? Have you ever gotten to do anything fun, different, or unusual? Any fellow "models" out there?