I mentioned in my last Jeopardy! post that I was appealing my game because of the lousy Final Jeopardy clue writing. I sent the producers a letter explaining my case, and waited. Months later (January), I received a polite letter stating that they didn’t see any problem and there was nothing they would do about it.

Of course, I was upset. But I’m also not the sort of person to just give up so I sent them another polite-but-firm letter saying that I didn’t think they were hearing me. I explained the details again, and this time the show had already run so I also cited several responses from the Jeopardy! online forum, to support my position.

It was a good letter, but I thought it was still a longshot. After all, it is extremely rare for them to bring back non-winning contestants. And the months passed so I had just about given up hope of even hearing from them again at all. I tried to live with the satisfaction that I had played well and almost won.

Then, today, about an hour ago, Christopher called me. He said he just checked his cellphone voicemail and there was a message there from Maggie at Jeopardy!, looking for me. He said she said something about bringing me back on.

Holy shit.

So, of course I called her number immediately, and, of course, I got her voicemail. I left all the vital info on it and am now in waiting mode…just staring at my cell, willing it to ring.

There is certainly the possibility that she was just calling to say “you gave it a good shot, but you’re not getting back on, so give it up.” Christopher did say that the voicemail was static-y. But he also said that Maggie said she wanted to “talk to Leslie about coming back on the show,” which sounds fairly positive, maybe.

So, stay tuned…

UPDATE
Got the call. I’m going to be booked on the show tomorrow. Probably August 16th tape date. That’s less than 3 weeks to relearn everything. Eeek!

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