People tell me I look like Helena Bonham Carter.
That would be well and fine, I suppose, but then they clarify that they mean Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange. So what they really seem to be saying is that I remind them of an insane serial killer, which makes me want to lean forward and hiss at them, “Well then maybe you shouldn’t be annoying me,” possibly while waving a pen as a wand and hissing curses.
Nodding and smiling is a more practical plan.
One of the women in the locker room yesterday was leaning more towards “Fight Club Helena,” as she kept calling her, but the others out-voted her. Fight Club Helena?
At least no one was voting for “Planet of the Apes Helena,” right? Then they clarified that I’m “the small version.” I didn’t know what that meant ’til I looked it up. Helena Bonham Carter appears to be carrying Rosemary’s baby. She is hugely pregnant. Makes much more sense now.
On a related note, I finally saw my doppleganger in the neighborhood. I’ve met all kinds of people lately who walk up and start yapping at me only to realize I’m not who I thought. I could actually see enough of a resemblance to make it vaguely odd but nothing spooky or that would be fun at parties. I do have an identical cousin living in San Francisco (though neither of us has any special feelings for hot dogs.)
Um, ya sort of do look like those photos at the bottom there. Just not as angry. Mostly.
I may have looked that angry when I was on the phone with the insurance company, actually. ha.
“Hugely pregnant.”
Humph. At this time of year wouldn’t “great with child” be better terminology?
Hi Rebecca,
I ran across your blog comment this morning about being told you look like Helena Bonham Carter, and looked at the pics on your website and NaNoWriMo to document this.
I have to say that Madame HBC–who unfortunately was born with no neck–would be thrilled to have your long one instead, and to be told she looked like YOU, lol. Personally, I would have said from the photo that you looked like Sigourney Weaver when she was much younger, and this is definitely a complement.
Haven’t seen your lookalike cousin here in San Francisco, but I’ll keep my eyes peeled. I migrated here from Atlanta, so I notice when other people are from there as well. Where did you go to school?
BTW I read your prize winning novel excerpt on NanoWriMo, which is brilliant. Pulled out my hanky to sob over the graphically delightful death of Mary V-O, and am waiting breathlessly for more details of the hand grenade(s);-)
Linkmeister: Oh, you people and your facility with language and eye for nuance. :-)
Jenny: Thanks for the compliments on the novel! :-)
I’m from sw Florida. When I was a kid we thought of trips to Atlanta as going “North.”
Your is so utterly hilarious because I have actually been harassed by sigourney weaver fans who think I’m her sister (she has no sister, she has a brother – I’ve had to learn much about her in self-defense. ha). When the HBC stuff started I joked that it was a nice change of pace from the Janeane Garofalo and Sigourney Weaver questions.
Me? Facile with language? Then why is my blog rated at “Junior high” level?
That’s a bizarre site. I wonder what the formula is for their ratings? It probably explains it on the site but I’m lazy today. Have to remember to look another time. I find your “rating” really strange. This blog rated at a college level, but antomatic – which is full of science jargon, came out at the high school level.
You look more like Janine in that NaNo photo. What award did you win?? What’s that about?
I won an all-expense paid trip around the room.
I finished my national novel writing month novel in time, so I am a winner.
I used to watch after school specials when I was a kid, so I know in reality we’re alllll winners.
Lol, Rebecca; SW Florida is where my kin migrated TO, now living in Punta Gorda.
I had looked through a number of your past blog entries before posting my first comment, and I had to go back through them to figure how I got the mistaken impression you came from Atlanta, which I’m pretty sure was because you said you’d gone to school with Gale Harold who is my fellow Atlantean/Decaturan.
I also saw the note that you had finished your novel, and I’m serious about wanting to read it. Is there a link where we can download the whole thing?
Jenny
Ah ha! Gale Harold went to the same college I did and was on the soccer team, which I worked for.
Soon, I will try to make at least some of the novel available. I just posted an update about it, actually.