glamorous pictures of my parents, and they look like Ike and Vera! So, anyway, I went out to register for school, and I had just a weird idea about going to New York and seeing a friend of mine that I had been dating in Minneapolis. And I got up to Manhattan, and I just never left. I got into Sande Shurin's acting classes, which was amazing, but I was starving -- literally -- and staying in a flophouse on 42nd and 2nd for $15 a night because I lied and told them I was a model. And, like, a month later, I was a model. John Casablancas from Elite saw me in an elevator and gave me his card. I thought he was some kind of porn director. [Laughs.] I couldn't understand what he was saying to me. He was all excited and pitching me on the idea of modeling, but somehow I thought it was some porn thing, so I just kind of threw the card in my bag and was like, "Get away from me!" But later I was showing the card to friends and was laughing about it, and they went, "No, no, that's, like, the cool, big modeling agency." And I'm like, "Yeah, but I'm not a model. I've never taken those classes." I didn't get that you could just be photographed. I thought you had to, like, go to college to be a model. [Laughs.] Some sort of special modeling college. So I went