Two hundred dollars won me the auction, but I didn't even know the name of series I would be on. The certificate read:

You know something is going on when they won't even tell you the name of the show you are going to be on.

Monday October 10th. Made my first call to Dawn Ostroff, who was the contact listed on the sheet. She was in a meeting. I didn't know it at the time but she is the President of Entertainment at UPN. Guess even executives have kids that go to school.
Tuesday October 11th. Nicole Woolsey, the assistant to the producer called me back. This was the day I first learned the name of the show I was to be on: One on One
Friday October 14th. Called to check, got in contact with Eric Kim who was the Director of Current Programs at UPN. (Some of this information I found later on a cast member's website. They told me an internet cafe scene was coming up and that I could go to that.
Waited for their call for details.
Wednesday, October 26th, the day before the supposed shoot. No one had called me. So I called back and finally got some details. I would be reporting to Paramount Studios, Stage 32, at 12:30pm on Thursday. The person I would be reporting to would be Fred Mamet

Thursday morning I gave myself to get to the Paramount lot from Castaic, where I live. I left at 11:15 am so I could get there at 12:30pm. The traffic was very light for a weekday and I managed to get there at noon, half an hour early. This turned out to be advantageous. I drove up thru the main Paramount gate and expected to get my pass and they would tell me where I could park. Wrong. "Principals only on the lot" the guard told me. I had to turn around and park in an eight-story parking lot off the studio. The first seven or so floors were marked reserved so I ended up parking up on the very top of this structure in the sun. My saving grace is that if an earthquake occurred while I was in the studio. I would come out to my car at ground level and everyone else's car crushed flatter than a flounder in a vice.

I arrived at 12:20, and found Fred relatively easily. He put me up in the studio audience area so that I could watch the rehearsals. I talked to one of the other extras, a gal named Nicole. She had been doing the extra thing only a week. She was previously in music and owned a home in London that she was renting out to pay for her living in LA.
At 12:30 I met Pablo. He's the background coordinator. He comes over and gives me the W-4s and Department of Justice thingies.
Nicole Woolsey wandered over and introduced herself and told me they would break for lunch at 3:30pm. She also gave me a One on One fifth season T-shirt. This short of flabbergasted me, since I didn't even know the show existed let alone was on for five seasons.

At 1:30 we went over to the internet cafe set to rehearse our scene. Some guy by the name of Bobby Valentino was to be the guest start that evening. The bar was filled with 90 percent women. The joke was that he was going to do a song, get up and say "Party's at my hotel room" and all the women would get up and walk out with him, including the two at my table.
The two at my table didn't even know about the show let alone it was on for five years. A woman by the name of Fumi was sitting to one side of me, the other side a woman from Bakersfield named Karla. Fumi and I would play with each other in rehearsal everytime she left. When she came back I would say, "I thought once you go black you don't go back", but she came back with "Well you know darling, when you go white, you're always right"

We were done by 2pm with our scene and then we broke for lunch at 3. Pablo led us over to the Paramount commissary where we ate. I talked to Bruce while walking down there. He was one of the stand-ins. He gets to come every week to the production and gets on stage but never on TV. I asked him if it paid well and he said no. I then asked him if he got any opportunities out of the job and he sure did. He's working his way up.

After lunch I tracked down on of the principals of the show, Nicole Paggi, who I found out from my research the night before was from Austin, Tx, my hometown, or as I called it, a liberal island in a sea of redneck. She told me she was actually from Georgetown, which is about 30 miles north of Austin, and she went to Southernwestern University. Our schools would have played football against each other if I wasn't fourteen years older than her. She also told me that she had not been in the show for five seasons. Apparently they had recast the show except for the two leads recently. It was a completely different show. Which brings up an interesting question: If you recast a network show and no one knows about it.. does the first four years count?

I also talked to Fred a little. I asked him if this show was any different from previous shows he had worked on. He told me that the writers were on the set while shooting, so that they could do rewrites depending on the reactions of the studio audience. It was like a live feedback loop. He had worked on Deadwood before and the directors thought nothing of stopping a scene for half an hour for a rewrite.
At 5pm the live audience filed in and a DJ started entertaining them with races between the rows and karaoke singing. At 6pm they started shooting. All the extras hung out on the internet cafe set while we waited for our time. Our scene went relatively fast, and the whole thing was done before 9:30pm.

Leaving the studio, I noticed the parking lot had not collapsed so I had to go up 8 floors to my car. Oh well.

Filmography links courtesy of IMDb.