The Great Change: Turning Cathy into a Lawyer

At the Blawg Roundtable last month Colin Samuels told about how in googling himself he discovered that all the links related to a different Colin Samuels, who was apparently some sort of skier. Realizing this, he then made it his mission to become the #1 Colin Samuels in Google, which apparently he has done...

I, too, have my dopplegangers: the geek who used to live in the Bay Area but who now appears to live in Virginia, and some sort of ski instructor who lives in New England. (What's up with all the doppleganging skiers?) But in my vanity googling the other day I was pleased to discover that I occupy most of the upper echelon hits. Even as "Catherine Gellis," particularly ever since my note was published. And of course as "Cathy Gellis" quite a bit, particularly since dozens of people had posted the Blawg Roundtable announcement, where I was listed.

Anyway, some interesting things turned up in my googling. An Italian Huey Lewis and the News fan I know mentioned me (and my "Y") in his write up of the concerts from last summer. Someone else cited my "Cheese Ratio" post, as it was linked by Ann Althouse, in a particularly authoritative (I like the footnotes) and complimentary way. In a similarly scholarly vein someone else cited one of the distance learning essays I wrote as a junior in college way back in 1995.

And it also turns out that I'm on BU's website touting the Bucerius program. This doesn't surprise me - I'd been asked to submit a picture and then had trouble doing so - but I hadn't heard that they'd actually used the one measly picture I'd come up with. I suppose it came out pretty well, the way it was used on the website, but in the future not only should I do a better job making sure I get my picture taken, but I should probably give more thought to how my hair looks in said pictures...

I wonder how the other Catherine Gellises wear theirs?