Umm, do I look like a cartoon character???

Two separate but related incidents. Yesterday was a very busy day for me, and I had to go to Boston City Hall and meet with some folks for the internship program I supervise. It was pretty windy in the morning, so I decided to put my hair up, out of my face, where it had limited ability to get in my face when the wind blows. Last night, Tim arrives home from work, looks at me, and notices my hair, which is unusual. He giggles and says:

"You Look Like Pebbles. Bam Bam!!!"



I am sorry, BUT THERE'S NO BONE IN MY HAIR!!!

The funny thing is, and Tim doesn't know this, is that I had two nicknames in high school...one of which was Pebbles. The other was "Cheer Bear", after the Care Bear with the rainbow on its tummy.



Yep, those nicknames are both listed in my high school yearbook. Tim has never noticed because he can't get past laughing at my picture. You know Sally Jessy Raphael's big red plastic glasses? Yeah, I had those.



And in an attempt to manage my hair in the pre-gel days, I used to stick big rollers in it, which kind of gave it a wavy pageboy do.



I also hated the photographer, who kept giving me the finger in an attempt to make me laugh. Hysterical.

Today, I am roaming the halls of my dept., and a fellow professor told me that I reminded him of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh. Totally out of the blue. Hello? Do I have a tail? Am I orange?



One commonality I see is these characters all have at least one arm up in the air. Mmmm, am I a flailing lunatic?
Or just a lunatic?
What are these people trying to tell me???