My "Album"

The past few weeks I have been "recognised". Who knew that having my face at the Unilever stand at Careers Fairs would have such a big impact. When I go out people say, "OMG you're the person with the huge face at the Careers Fairs! Ha ha that picture is soooo funny you look hilarious!". I was starting to feel sorry for famous people who have their pictures out on a wider scale but then thought, they don't have pictures of their hair being blown up and with a stunned, open-mouthed, wide-eyed expression from being shocked by the photographer and creative director suddenly yelling out to achieve a certain "surprised look".

I'm not going to include the pictures in here (and get more comments) but I'm going to include a mistake photo that I thought was quite cool. The photographer captured the picture a bit too late so my hair was already coming down. However, it was wrapped around my neck like I was being strangled by an octopus. The creative director photoshopped it a bit and has called it my new album "Octopus Melissa".

Also, another not so related point was on the flight to Melbourne (where they took the photos), Regie the winner of Big Brother 2 was our flight attendant. Although very funny and ditzy (matching the Virgin Blue flight attendant image) it made me think about how quick Australian "celebrities" fall. I saw Christy (from Big Bro 1) do stand up comedy at Fox Studios without getting a single laugh out of the audience once and Merlin works as a glass collector at Middle Bar. I guess the point is, don't go on Big Brother because then people laugh at you when you go back to your normal job or they laugh at you when you try to capitalise on your fame ie. Jemma with her make up line (how is that going anyways?). At least Blair was able to make it to Neighbours. But I don't consider that a great achievement.