Whoa! Weird coincidence!

I picked up Julie & Julia last night. It was on my wishlist for a long time and found it on the bargain shelf at Borders (boo hiss Borders) sometime within the past year. I was pleasantly surprised to discover early into the book that the author, Julie Powell, grew up in Austin, Texas, where I lived in high school. Didn't think much about it other than, huh, wonder what school she went to, what part of Austin she lived in, etc. Then a little further in she mentions wanting to be an actress and further on mentioning that she was on the drill team, which, coincidentally, wore the same white cowboy hats the drill team at my school wore. So I really started wracking my brain. Who did I know named Julie that was on the drill team that was also in theater. And I came up with a name. Surely not. I couldn't keep reading; I had to do some sleuthing to see if I could figure out if this just happened to be the Julie I remembered from high school. Yeah. It is. So weird. We weren't friends, but our circles touched a bit at times - she was a year younger than me, and I'd be seriously surprised if she even knew who I was. But whoa. So, Julie, if you happen across this blog post, congratulations on the book (a few years late now...), which I was enjoying even before I realized I knew who you were! :-)