- a personal diary loosely paralleling the first 100 days of Barack Obama and our(hopefully less than)100 days of lay-off.
Day 17 - Friday, February 6, 2009 - Oprah, Can You Hear Me?
I promise, I have not become delusional. I may be wondering around in Pollyanna-land at the moment, but I figure it's better than falling into the abyss of lay-off despondency. So I did it just as I said I would in my previous blog - I wrote to Oprah's people - not to tell my story or comment on a program, but to try to pitch our online matching game to her web designers. I had always
had the idea sloshing around in my brain that the online games my husband and I create would be a smashing success on the perfect website, but I had never followed through with the idea. There's nothing like not knowing where you're going to be living next month to motivate you to push forward and plant any seed in your pocket hoping this might be the one that grows into a fruitful tomato plant or (in this case) maybe just a little patch of lettuce that will get you by.
We designed the looks of our game to match the feel of Oprah's site and reflect the same concept of some of the games already on there. Now it's just a matter of waiting for Oprah's people to call my people, i.e. me!