Haircuts and Needing Advice...

I have always had an odd relationship with my hair. When I was younger my mom cut it super short in a pixie type cut. At the time I hated it, but looking back it was actually pretty cute. For the longest time I wouldn't cut my hair at all. 5th grade rolled around and that stupid mushroom cut was all the rage and I had to have it. After that fad left town I didn't cut my hair again until Freshman year of high school and then had the same hairstyle until freshman year of college when I went back to a super short cut. I am always apprehensive about cutting it too short. My rule of thumb is that it has to be able to be put into a ponytail. That is, until today. I wanted to do something a little bit different, but nothing too extreme. I went to my trusty stylist E and told him what I was thinking. He went over some ideas with me and we decided to do a more angled cut with the back falling between my shoulder blades. I thought he was cutting quite a bit off, but I went with it. I am now rocking a cut almost identical to this one.
The angle isn't as severe, but it is pretty much that short. The strange part? I. LOVE. IT. (PS, that isn't me in the picture)

So anyway, I got to work after the haircut and got an email from my boss asking me to contact someone. At the bottom of the email it said "PS I love the new du. I did my hair today too, can you tell?" Do you guys think that is a little odd?? I wasn't sure what to think. HELP!