Can it be?

I met the owner at an Italian Restaurant. In his hands he held a manila folder. With very little fanfare (Where was the Mariachi band?) he opened the folder and handed me an offer letter. We went over it together and I had a few questions but nothing shot out at me as being fishy. We talked about college– he went to Villanova (or Vanilla-nova as us Rosemonsters used to call it back then) which is right next to Rosemont. Our conversation turned to the economy and the media. And he said, “The media is doing it’s best to keep the public in a state of fear, panic, and anxiety!” Suddenly it clicked. Immediately upon meeting him, I felt a very strong sense of familiarity with him. That was one of the reasons I wasn’t overly spooked by the weird fixation on my short email. It seemed almost normal to me that he would act a bit insane every now and then. And I couldn’t explain why I felt like I knew him for ages. But then it clicked. He is a dead ringer for Glen Beck! How could I have not noticed this earlier? I knew a woman who also commanded this same false sense of kinship because she looked like Jody Foster. glenbeck-1 People just automatically assumed they knew her and liked her based on her uncanny resemblance to “Nell.” This worked out well for her– unfortunately she is today sitting in a jail cell because it was discovered she was running a Meth lab and prostitution ring from her house. I think she also dabbled in producing false government IDs. Nice girl all the same. Looked just like Jody Foster!

So I got an offer letter. It’s a good offer! At this point on my life’s journey, it looks to be a better deal than what I had been doing. Who honestly knows until I start working the territory if it really is better but it seems better on paper. I have until Tuesday to get back to him. If I accept, I start the 16th.

I wonder if my resemblance to Celine Dion affects how people react to me? Maybe that’s the reason I get spit upon so often? Not convinced of our similarity? Click here for a side by side comparison of Celine and me— Celine’s on the right, I’m on the left.

12 thoughts on “Can it be?”

  4. B. Davis

    Congrats on the job offer! Clicking with the boss is a very good thing. If he had said that the feds (not just the media) were whipping up fear and hysteria then he would become My Hero. If he starts referring to our never-run-anything-but-his-mouth SunGod Socialist as Comrade Obama (ala Glenn Beck) then he’ll enter my bosses Hall Of Fame.

    BTW, you resemble a newsperson in Fargo, North Dakota,
    where I live. She works for Valley News Live…

    http://www.valleynewslive.tv/info/info_reporters_page1.shtml

    Scroll down to Lisa Budeau. If you want to enjoy all the
    perks & privileges of living in Fargo (oh my, there are so many) come here and start impersonating Lisa. I’ve been told for 20 years that I resemble Tom Brokaw but that hasn’t done me a bit of good…plus I’m not sure that’s a compliment.

  5. Donna Post author

    I checked out Lisa Budeau and I don’t really see the resemblance (maybe in the shape of the face) — of course my internal visual representation of myself is somewhat skewed. Tom Brokaw is a great person to resemble– he is very handsome!

  6. Audra

    Oh darn you! I was going to make a crack about you looking like Celine Dion before I got to the end of the blog, but you beat me to it! My thighs look just like Celine Dion’s too. I only ever shave up to the knee. I guess the Glen Beck thing is what you were going to tell me on the phone? That is really funny! My former boss looked like Jerry the dentist from the Bob Newhart Show. But his personality was so completely different I got over it soon. I find more often I meet new people who look like old friends or classmates of mine and feel a kinship with them because of that.

  8. Donna Post author

    Rosemont was very vanilla my first year and then each subsequent year they made a real concerted effort to make it diverse, very diverse. You can read on the Rosemont Web site how proud they are to have ranked #2 among liberal arts colleges in the nation for diversity! I do believe that’s one of the reasons Rosemont has had so many problems– rather than concentrating on skin color– they should have focused on delivering a great education– which they used to do prior to their desire to be diverse.

  9. Nathan

    I’ve gotten points in the past for being told I look like the following:

    – Ducky from Pretty in Pink
    – Matthew Broderick
    – Jeff Goldblum

    I resemble NONE of them.
    My face must be morphing. There’s no other explanation as to why folks have compared me to these guys.

    Maybe tomorrow I’ll look like Ted Danson.

    N.

  11. B. Davis

    The picture of Lisa Budeau is small and her facial features aren’t evident…but on a big-screen television she does bear some resemblance to you. She’s attractive and she anchors a news program, even if it is in the 119th largest TV market in America.

    With a name like Budeau, she could also be French-Canadian, like Celine Dion. Maybe you’ve got some Frenchies in the ol’ family tree.

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