Our youngest, Justin, attended the final session of his CSI course last night and was interviewed by a local TV station during the class.  When Celeste and I asked him which station it was he said he wasn’t sure.  He was more concerned with the fact that he’d missed 20 minutes of the class and was totally lost when he re-joined the group.  (They extracted DNA last night; how cool is that?)

This morning as Justin was getting ready for school I decided to try again.  I asked him what the person who interviewed him looked like.  "A guy with black hair," he said.  Now we were getting somewhere.  I asked him if it was just this guy or if there was someone else there to run the camera.  "He ran the camera, so it was just him," he said.  So I knew it probably wasn’t a reporter that I would recognize and odds were he wasn’t wearing a suit so maybe he was wearing a shirt with the station’s logo. I asked Justin if the guy was wearing a shirt with a logo on it and he says he can’t remember.  I ask him if the guy was wearing a suit and he says he can’t remember.  So pretty much I struck out.

Last night we watched as much of the local news as we could, including NBC, CBS, FOX and News Channel 14 (our local ABC affiliate doesn’t have their own news operation).  No sign of Justin.  This morning I flipped continuously between the four stations and thought I’d hit it when Channel 14 did a little teaser on a CSI program, but it ended up being about a bus run by UNC with a CSI "lab" on it that visits schools across the state and made a stop at Eastern Alamance High School.  Justin’s program was at Atkins High School so now I’m worried that he was interviewed for that story and his interview ended up on the "cutting room floor."  Hopefully not.  Another possibility is that the local station was actually the school’s in-house station, and if you think Justin would make the distinction between a "real" news station and the school station then you obviously don’t know my son.  The kid couldn’t care less.

Anyway, if you happen to be watching the local news and see an interview with a handsome, blond, 11 year old boy with a killer smile AND he’s talking about CSI then drop me a line and let me know where you saw it.