Have you ever wished you could be someone else … just for a day?
Maybe not someone else, maybe just a different you…
Google yourself. Oh, come on, we all do it. We use to do it just for fun. Now we do it to verify our online presence. In this era of social media it has become necessary to have an online presence and to keep it fed and at the top of the ladder. Just for today, I decided I would try to be one of those other “Michelle Gillies”.
Dr. Michelle Gillies. My father always wanted me to be a doctor. This version of me is a lecturer in Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow. I’m not even sure what that is but it sounds pretty complicated and although I would love to visit Scotland I’m not prepared to move there.
Michelle Gillies loves mushrooms! OK, that one is new! Is there anyone who would not have checked that one out? It turns out Michelle is the proud owner of Brisbane’s (Australia) lovely new haven for hand-made and eco-friendly gifts The Nook. Yes, Australia is also on my “to visit someday list” but, I got lost just looking at her unique wares in her shop, online…I would never be able to sell any of it, I would just want to keep it all.
This one is great! “Don’t you just love dressing like a pirate and getting chased around a soggy forest by very immature adults dressed like Indians? Nope me neither.” That is how this Scottish Michelle starts her blog “Days Like This” I think this Michelle and I were separated at birth, I’m not a fan of the camping thing and I have definitely had days like that!
Of course I always run across the Michelle Gillies with the arrest reports for crazy assaults that somehow involved cats. I use to get her phone calls from collection agencies. People send me newspaper clippings every time she makes the papers. Once, at Casino Niagara, I went to check my “Players Points” and was surrounded by undercover RCMP officers. Seriously, they made a circle around me before I even looked up. They had guns! After some interrogation and someone producing the mug shots of the Michelle in question I was released and the casino bought me dinner for my “embarrassment”. Who could eat!? I got the heck out of that place.
My former boss once walked into my office with that “cat that swallowed the canary” grin on his face. “Michelle, I just googled you…” I sat there wondering what deep dark secret he had dug up out about my past, or if that criminally minded Michelle had reared her head again. As I watched him, I could see the crimson beginning at his neck line and expanding to full faced red. He stumbled over “There were naked pictures…”. He showed me on the computer what he had found. (Sorry, I am not linking you here!) She was gorgeous! Stunning! Breathtaking! Sexy! Did I say gorgeous? I looked him straight in the eye and said calmly, “Yes, that’s me.”
In my dreams, but only for a day.
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The other Dorie Cowling lives in South Africa, has a lovely white/golden coat and four legs. I found this out by adding my name companion on
Facebook. She has a profile. Problem is she won’t answer me!
Wow Michelle…. I knew you were talented, but you really have stop the clone making machine. All these versions are dizzying!
(ps. teach me your clone making ways master… I need a few)
great stuff Michelle.
A professor once called me the Erma Bombeck of Humanistic Psychology. Michelle, you leave me in the dust. Your blogs are getting better and better. After reading “The Other Michelle” I laughed, I cried, I Googled Michelle Gillies searching for the one with the naked pics. Well, maybe I cried after I couldn’t find the, you know. Great work, M.
Hi,
thanks for the great quality of your blog, every time i come here, i’m amazed.
black hattitude.
Great post Michelle!
I loved this post, and I could only wish to have as many “interesting” people with the same name as you do. Oh google, so much fun! Great job Michelle.
Ah, Nicole, you are one of the most “interesting” people I have ever met. You need no impostors with your name.
Thanks for reading.
M
Free dinner from the RCMP? Did they let you use their handcuffs by any chance? Do they even carry them? I’ve always wondered. LOL
Great post Michelle! Thanks for being YOU! 😉
Oh, no, the RCMP didn’t provide me with free dinner. The casino did. There were no handcuffs in view but I was held with a firm grasp on either side.
Damn RCMP! LOL
We should all be so lucky – maybe not RCMPs with guns, but beauteous, curvaceous naked ladies … in most of our dreams!
Agreed! I think we should be, too. I have the curves … they’re just more like racetrack curves. 😉
Hahaha 🙂
Thanks so much to Susie Lindau for sending me over to your entertaining blog! I tried to copy your idea, but discovered that I must have a VERY unhealthy name, because the other hits were all obituaries.
Oh. Well that isn’t fun. You must have an older style name with all your hits being obituaries. In another couple of years I suspect my google searches will return similar results.
I’ve done this and found that the other mes seem to enjoy dating Kanye West, acting in adult fims, and being a posh NYC restaurant.
I think I’m good being me for the moment. 🙂
(Also, hi! Susie sent me 🙂 )
I can’t say much for the taste in men your other yous have but I think you are wise sticking to the you you are.
Thanks for checking me out.
Wow! How scary identity theft can be!
There’s a Susan T. Lindau who is a psychologist. Another Susie Lindau popped up this year and took susielindau before I could on Instagram!
That is the extent of duplicious Susie Lindau’s and it didn’t involve guns!
Thanks for bringing it to the party!
Have fun clicking on links and introducing yourself to the guests!
Thanks Susie. It is a lot of fun getting to know others this way.
Sent from Susie’s party. Sadly the closest I can come to trading lives/personalities is Eartha Kitt according to Google.
Oh I like her. But she is well beyond your years. Wait a minute…she is actually now “beyond”. I think she passed in 2008. She was a great Catwoman.
She was pretty fabulous. Great singing voice! 🙂
Great piece. My former brother in law was once held at the border for three hours because he had the same name and birthdate as a convicted gun-runner. Scary stuff.
Susie sent me.
Thanks, Cassandra. I cross the border frequently and those guys can be pretty intimidating. After the casino incident I considered carrying around a picture of her with the words, “I’m not her” on it. 😉
Oh what fun! I’m afraid there are no other Amy Shojai’s out there, but when I was dating my husband, turns out there was someone with his exact first, middle, and last name…at the same school. They kept confusing their grades. I often wondered if he (the doppelganger) also dated someone named Amy…
By the way, Suzie sent me. *s*
Where his grades higher or lower than your husband? That could have worked in his favour. 😉
Thanks so much for stopping by.
I LOVE your reaction to the naked photos. I have Googled myself and there is a Dr. Susan T. Lindau from California who pops up. I think she’s in psychology and doesn’t have a record. How scary!!!!!
Thanks for brining this to the party. Have fun meeting the new guests!!!
Thanks Susie, It’s the first time I’ve had a chance to stick around to check out some of the other bloggers so I thought I would join the party.
I’m so glad you did!
Wow! What an interesting way of finding all the you’s out there. I would have been mortified at the casino and no amount of free dinner would be able to fix it. Susie sent me and what a cool post this turned out to be. I’ll be poking around a bit more to see who the “real” Michelle really is. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Jessica.
I was mortified and it was several years before I actually went back to the place.
Feel free to poke all you like. 😉