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To all my friends who see Twilight: When you see a curly-haired, female EMT wheeling some guy away on a gurney, think, "that's Michelle, an awesome EMT and firefighter in real life."

She's a former co-worker of mine, as well as my current co-worker's wife. She joined a movie extra company as sort of a hobby. She also a children's librarian and trains for marathons in her spare time.

She's also how I learned about Twilight. Imagine the following scene:

Cast: Ryan--my co-worker.
Me-- me.

Ryan (just putting down his lunchbox: Yeah, Michelle got this audiobook that's apparently really popular. I listened to part of it on the way in to work. It's about this girl and vampires. She moves to Forks.

Me: Forks, Washington??? (Remembers barren, treeless hills far from either sea or mountain. Colorless town. Good pancakes. Tries to imagine angsty teen vampires in Land O' Loggers. Can't.)

I type "forks vampires" into Google, and discover the book. I snicker a lot and laugh at Ryan for having to listen to it.

Some time later, I next heard of the book when Ryan told me they were making a movie out of "that Forks book," and Michelle was going to be an extra.

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Yeah, I was mildly interested in the book when I heard it was set in Forks because I've been to Forks on many occasions, pretty much every summer for years. We'd go up there to do laundry in the middle of our camping trips to Kalaloch. What a boring little town.

I've ended up not reading the books because they sound so vapid, predictable and are written by a crazy Mormon person.

Yes! World's Most Boring Town. That's what I've called Forks ever since I visited there way back when (like you, when visiting Kalaloch). But then, maybe it is the most logical place for vampires to appear, since there was a sad, soul-sucking quality to it.
They filmed the movies in Oregon somewhere near Puget Island--at least when my friend shot her scene.