Growing up a child of the 80s, my favorite cartoons included Voltron, Smurfs, Strawberry Shortcake, G.I. Joe and Transformers. Now in my twenties, one of my favorite movies continues to be Transformers: The Movie, a full length cartoon movie made in 1984.

So about a year ago I was surfing the Internet when I came across a Web site with the news that Dreamworks has optioned the rights to film a live action movie. Since then, I hadn’t really heard too much about it. Until yesterday, that is.

I’m in my bosses office talking about work stuff and he’s mentioning how busy he’s been lately. As a for instance, he mentions an email he’s received from a location scout who’s looking to film a movie here. My boss is telling me how he isn’t planning on replying because he doesn’t have time to deal with it. Then he tells me it’s the Transformers movie.

Well I freak out and go all fangirl on him. I’m trying to explain to him how excited I’ve been about this movie and how I can’t believe how cool it is they want to come out here and how I really think we should let the guy come out. I’m trying to explain how great this would be for our installation and what amazing publicity this would bring out organization and to make a long story short, I talked him into inviting the scout out and seriously consider doing what he can to make this happen.

And the best part - if they choose to come out here, I’m going to have the opportunity to play a huge role in helping them out. I can’t believe this is happening. This could very well be the highlight of my public affairs career. I’m so excited. Someone really needs to pinch me.