Reminds me of the CPR training I had 3 weeks ago.
I didn't mean to open with that, since a cool-sounding thing like "I've learned CPR and will start EMT classes in the fall" should be accompanied by "and I've ridden in an ambulance to someplace other than Romeo's pizza". But I can't manage that and be telling the truth, so we'll just shelve this for now.
For those who don't know, JC stands for juice chug, and des is from my last name. The idea was that most first names sound good with my last name, as opposed to a last name like Case, where first names like Justin are to be actively avoided. We thought of weird combinations like Mordor and Juice Chug (from the Garelick drink) and found that even those were OK. That's all I have to say about that.
Most other possible names for this were taken already! laura, laurad, jcd, etc...all taken. The worst part is none of these "people" have more than 2 posts, and none at all in the last 5 years. How is this fair? Can I petition to boot them off and let the more active people take over those names? I mean, I already have 1000 posts. Clearly I deserve it more.
I'm at work right now, so I shouldn't make this too long. I think the only other thing I have to say right now is I need more sleep. Perhaps in future I can read this post to start myself on the path to slumber.
This post made me think of the stuff people say about staking out online 'real estate', making sure that other people don't take things that would have your name in them so that you can use it in the future if you want to and to control your online identity. Maybe you don't need to go as far as buying up domain names, but apparently it's better to get in early with things like blogpost names? I suppose your name is pretty common though. (Mine's only common in that if you add other letters to the end of my surname you get other people's names. I think I'll start to appreciate that more as online identities become more important?)
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