Backtracking

First, let me say that the reason this blog is titled, "The Chambermaid" is two-fold. Nigella has been known to casually throw out this sentence: "When I was a chambermaid in Italy..." which is great, b/c it's just such a visual. Nigella as Chambermaid! As Rachel said: "I'm thinkin' Nige was a chambermaid for about 10 minutes." She's just too glamorous! Yet the reality is that I am often, indeed, acting as chambermaid here at Chez Testosterone, so it was with a wink that I chose this name. Oh, that, and that every name related to myself on Blogger was already taken. So, that makes it a three-fold reason. But I digress. My pic on my profile was actually one of the beautiful Jeanne Moreau, the French actress who starred in the 1964 film, "Le Journal d'une femme de chambre," or, "The Diary of a Chambermaid." As Celestine, the newly hired maid who works in the country for "a strange group of people." ha.
But anyway, when Paola emailed me and told me I looked like a '60s fashion model, I confessed that, unfortunately, this was not me, but Jeanne Moreau, and then I wondered if perhaps I was violating some sort of blogger etiquette, or at least being misleading. (But I must also clarify that I did not go to college in the '60s, P.) So... over there is my new pic. That's me, and you can see I am no Jeanne. But I do indeed work for a strange group of people, in the country.