A Super disguise

I'm a Superman fan.

I even had the chance to meet Dean Cain a few years ago. I used to watch him on his Superman show, "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman." I've seen the first four seasons of the next Superman show, "Smallville."

I haven't followed the comics but I saw the original movies when I was younger. I don't remember much more from the original movies other than Christopher Reeve played Superman.

Regardless of what Superman you grew up watching, or watched once you were grown up, the premise of the story is always the same: a family, the Kents, find a baby, Kal-El, , from another planet, Krypton, and raise him as a human named Clark. He grows up and discovers he has super-human strength and speed, X-ray and infra-red eyes, is bulletproof and can fly.

He uses these powers to fight crime but, just like Hanna Montana, wants to remain anonymous and carry on a normal life. Clark's disguise when he's not fighting crime is glasses, a different hair style and wearing his underwear on the inside of his pants.

I always thought this was the worse disguise ever. What kind of disguise is taking off your glasses? How can you not recognize someone just because they took off their glasses? I've always liked the story, but thought the story's major flaw was the lack of creativity in creating a disguise. Spiderman has his suit, Batman has the Bat mask, even Robin gets at least a Hamburglar-like eye mask.

Well, after today, I will no longer doubt the creative genius behind the superhero.

I was walking from my apartment to the Kibbie Dome this morning, talking about the night before on my cell phone and as I approached campus, and noticed someone waving to me as we got closer together. I waved politely and confusedly, not sure who I was waving to. As we passed each other, I realized the girl waving was my roommate, the one I've lived with the past two and a half months.

The only difference between her appearance between how she looked then and how I normally see her: she was wearing glasses instead of her contacts and had her hair in a pony tail.

Yep, I'm a dork.