As an odd and freaky side note, I've had four seperate people mistake me for you to the point where they'll come up and start talking to me (or hug me in one case) before I point out I'm actually not you.
Someone pointed you out a club at one stage for me, and frankly, I'm baffled as to why it keeps happening. You're at least two sizes smaller than me for a start!
Just thought I'd mention it while we're talking about odd meetings.
*chuckle* for one thing people seem to think I'm fat... or at least people usually use this as an immediate insult when I've upset them. I also recently lost an arseload of weight (literally!)
The other thing is that just about everyone knows me or knows about me in some capacity... meaning a lot of people that don't know me well like to be seen speaking to me so that can happen for one. Also change of appearances and the variability in makeup and hair that I have makes it confusing for some people.
Ahhhhh....the weight loss would explain it. Everyone who's come running up to me coo-ing also claims not to have seen you for a year or more.
I think it also seems to be that any girl in glasses looks like any other one to some people. I used to get asked if my best freind in High School was my sister even though she looked NOTHING like me.
I was considering getting a shirt saying "NOT AMAYA" after the fourth time it happened (considering I've only really been out five or six times this year), but I wasn't sure if people would STILL think I was you and just trying to be funny.
The most memorable one was a girl with shoulder length curly hair at a party held by Simon Fiend. She came up behind me and hugged me, asking how I was. I hadn't been in Brisbane long and thought it was conceivable I might have met her and forgotten (I'm dreadful like that). She wandered off, but came back three or four more times to say hi, or ask if I knew where so and so was, before she finally came up, knelt down, and after looking at me very carefully said, "You're not Amaya, are you?" I think her name was possibly Amy or something....I was trying too hard not to laugh at the time.
Um...I wouldn't go so far as to say I KNOW the Fiend. My housemate, and more particuarly her ex girlfriend are aquainted with him, and I kind of tagged along to the party after I met Fiendy at Faith one night.
I think he's just one of those people-hub kind of guys.
OH! And there was a Sandra or a Sharon or something at Faith the other week. Short blonde older woman who apparently hadn't been out "on the scene" for some years and came up exclaiming "AmAYA! How ARE You?". I told her I was not in fact you, and she kind of squinted at me and asked if I was sure. I like to think she must have been more drunk than she appeared.
Funny thing about that one is that I was sitting at a table telling a freind from Sydney about my idea for NOT AMAYA shirts when it happened.
Okay, I went and looked at your site to see if I could possibly get a handle on why people confused me for you (frankly, I STILL don't get it. I honestly think it must just be a goth girl in glasses thing). There is a picture there of you in a PVC corset and a satin shirt....which is a very lovely outfit, but it was kind of trippy to realise it was taken in ozgenre's loungeroom. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd be willing to lay money on the fact there is no one else with that painting, that many DVD's, and a bat'leth on the wall.
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Date: 2004-08-07 10:06 am (UTC)Someone pointed you out a club at one stage for me, and frankly, I'm baffled as to why it keeps happening. You're at least two sizes smaller than me for a start!
Just thought I'd mention it while we're talking about odd meetings.
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Date: 2004-08-07 07:01 pm (UTC)The other thing is that just about everyone knows me or knows about me in some capacity... meaning a lot of people that don't know me well like to be seen speaking to me so that can happen for one. Also change of appearances and the variability in makeup and hair that I have makes it confusing for some people.
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Date: 2004-08-07 09:14 pm (UTC)I think it also seems to be that any girl in glasses looks like any other one to some people. I used to get asked if my best freind in High School was my sister even though she looked NOTHING like me.
I was considering getting a shirt saying "NOT AMAYA" after the fourth time it happened (considering I've only really been out five or six times this year), but I wasn't sure if people would STILL think I was you and just trying to be funny.
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Date: 2004-08-07 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-07 11:03 pm (UTC)The most memorable one was a girl with shoulder length curly hair at a party held by Simon Fiend. She came up behind me and hugged me, asking how I was. I hadn't been in Brisbane long and thought it was conceivable I might have met her and forgotten (I'm dreadful like that). She wandered off, but came back three or four more times to say hi, or ask if I knew where so and so was, before she finally came up, knelt down, and after looking at me very carefully said, "You're not Amaya, are you?" I think her name was possibly Amy or something....I was trying too hard not to laugh at the time.
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Date: 2004-08-07 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-08 04:21 am (UTC)I think he's just one of those people-hub kind of guys.
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Date: 2004-08-07 11:06 pm (UTC)Funny thing about that one is that I was sitting at a table telling a freind from Sydney about my idea for NOT AMAYA shirts when it happened.
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Date: 2004-08-07 11:16 pm (UTC)*shakes head* Freaky trippy stuff.
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Date: 2004-08-08 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-08 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-07 11:58 pm (UTC)Harumph.
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Date: 2004-08-08 04:23 am (UTC)