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[active_apathy]

First thing first, the ad for Doctor Who with its mention of reality TV (yes, we here in Australia are horridly behind) gave me this mental image of a kind of Dalek Big Brother.

YOU ARE A HOUSEMATE! YOU MUST NOM-IN-ATE! NOM-IN-ATE! NO-MIN-ATE! EEE-VICT! EEE-VICT!

And now that that madness has passed, today's entry is mostly about something I've noticed. People seem to, in some ways, know me. At this point, you're probably thinking something like "that's odd because?" It's an interesting experience to have people be able to just say "Hey! You! You did this, and that, and I think that other thing, and I loved the ten things you can't do thingy!"

At this point, I should mention that I don't have much to respond to this with. There's always options like "And it's... um... you! With the head! And the... um... the eyes! And you... um... commented." It's an unusually awkward kind of thing, and makes me wonder how people who are really, genuinely famous would deal with it (beyond going to bonkers and retiring to high-walled mansions, I suppose). It may even be worse for them, since they tend to have bits like 'about the author' pages while my userinfo's still the blankest of canvases. This post was supposed to help fix it, and I may just get around to doing all that shortly-ish.

So, I put to you a question: What do you do when random folk seem to know all about you?

Comments

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

I get recognised a lot on and offline, especially as a Red Dwarf fanfic writer. It's bizarre, especially offline, but I just try and figure out how these people know me and then get on with the conversation.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

And not so much as a quiz show contestant or as a GMA interviewee and Potter fangirl?

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

I rarely get asked about those things. It tends to be more that someone mentions Einstein Factor, I say, 'Hey, I was on that!', they ask what my topic was, I tell them, and then they say, 'Yeah, I remember you!'