A strange coincidence.

[rivka]

I forgot to bring my book to work with me today. (An Interior Life, by "Katherine Blake" aka Dorothy Heydt, but I digress.) So while I was eating lunch, I picked a couple of old magazines off the stack the former nutritionist had left on the office shelf.

In the Dec 18-25 2000 issue of Us Weekly (an utterly vapid celebrity gossip magazine I'd never read before), at the back of the magazine there was a five-page "real person" profile on Robin Tovey, a woman I knew in college. I recognized her immediately - there aren't many armless, legless, redheaded women named Robin - but it was such a shock to see someone I know profiled in a national magazine that I had to scan through the article for "proof" - a reference to Reed College. Huh. By itself, an interesting but not amazing coincidence.

Then I picked up the Nov 2001 issue of Real Simple. In the middle of a feature about women getting makeovers before attending a high school or college reunion, another familiar name and face: Macy Matarazzo, preparing for her 10th year reunion at Cornell College in Iowa. I knew her in graduate school, slightly - she was the friend of friends.

What are the odds of two successive national magazines, picked at random, featuring non-famous women I know personally? Is it a message of deep cosmic significance? Or just a random lift to an otherwise dreary day?

Either way, I'm charmed.

Comments

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

That's pretty amazing. :)

Re: Either way, I'm charmed.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

And charming.

Where you're concerned dear, I've come to expect the probabilities to get twisted.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Could be synchronicity, could be just that you know a lot of cool people. (Or maybe both?)

-J

Both. Neither. Something else, too.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Dunno what it signifies, but I managed to find that article on Robin Tovey

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Dunno what it signifies, but I managed to find that article on Robin Tovey <a=href "http://www.ejeanlive.com/us-tovey.htm">online</a>. Cool! (Linked, in case anyone else wants to read it.)

Re: Both. Neither. Something else, too.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Did you actually link to it? There doesn't seem to be an active link in your comment.

Re: Both. Neither. Something else, too.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Argh. Should have previewed it. I misplaced an equals sign.
This should be the link (http://www.ejeanlive.com/us-tovey.htm).

but just in case: http://www.ejeanlive.com/us-tovey.htm