You might recognize me from...
May. 4th, 2009 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_lotus13Strangely, I am occasionally recognized in Edmonton. On Saturday night, Mari introduced me to a local newspaper editor, who recognized my name and knew that I had written a few things for his competitor. Another friend of hers said that I looked really familiar.
I also ran into a person a few weeks ago who had read and loved my book. I did not know this person at all, and was shocked and flattered, as I always am when this happens.
A few weeks before this, I was talking to a local author who recently published a book with my publisher.
Her- "You look really familiar. Have we met before?"
Me- Uh, I'm a Frontenac author too. You probably recognize my face from my book and the picture on the website.
(Heh)
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I think it's funny when people try to place my ethnicity without actually asking me about it. This happened at a bbq I was at on Saturday night.
Couple- Where are you from?
Me (guessing what they wanted to know)- Saskatoon.
Couple- (pause)- Um, what's your background? You look.... (awkward pause)
Me- (thinking that I should tell them about my education)- I'm French, German, English and my mother is half Chinese. My features come from my mother, but the colouring is all my father's.
I love telling people that I'm from Saskatoon when they ask where I'm from. I did this to one woman, and she told me that she had thought that I was from South America. Yeah, I'm an ass.
I also ran into a person a few weeks ago who had read and loved my book. I did not know this person at all, and was shocked and flattered, as I always am when this happens.
A few weeks before this, I was talking to a local author who recently published a book with my publisher.
Her- "You look really familiar. Have we met before?"
Me- Uh, I'm a Frontenac author too. You probably recognize my face from my book and the picture on the website.
(Heh)
*****
I think it's funny when people try to place my ethnicity without actually asking me about it. This happened at a bbq I was at on Saturday night.
Couple- Where are you from?
Me (guessing what they wanted to know)- Saskatoon.
Couple- (pause)- Um, what's your background? You look.... (awkward pause)
Me- (thinking that I should tell them about my education)- I'm French, German, English and my mother is half Chinese. My features come from my mother, but the colouring is all my father's.
I love telling people that I'm from Saskatoon when they ask where I'm from. I did this to one woman, and she told me that she had thought that I was from South America. Yeah, I'm an ass.
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Date: 2009-05-04 04:15 pm (UTC)