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[lauralh]

Was talking with atypical_gnu earlier about the dearth of originality in boys' names in this country. Everyone is either named Scott, James, Steven, Michael, Joshua, Matthew, Joseph, Mark, John, Clark, David, Steven, Nick, Sean, Ryan, Daniel, Eric, Brian, Andrew, or Tim. If you are a guy and not named any of those, well, lucky you.

I hadn't really been taking cold medication, but today I needed to be sharp. So I had a 12-hour psudafed, and omg did it help. Felt so much better. Talked to some potential employer on the phone and then went to the gym. I like my crappy gym so far. Semi-cute boy on the elliptical next to mine didn't hurt. Using the butterfly press did, on the other hand. I'm gonna be sore tomorrow. Feel like crashing now but must "be strong, and try to hold on, or else my mind may snap, and my life will be lived for the thrills." (five points) By the way, has anyone ever tried irrigating their nose with salt water?

Steve tried to talk me into watching Surf Ninjas a little while ago, but I managed to hold my ground and force him to watch not one, but TWO episodes of Friends. I think he liked them, too. I mean when that show is on, it is on. That season when Chandler and Monica are Secretly Lovers is a pretty good one, too. I wonder if Friends seasons are like Star Trek movies, where every other one is good. Or the even numbered ones or something.

Comments

[vonpookie.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Five points for meeeeeeee in this case!

What did I originally come here to say? Oh yeah. I think you should add Kyle to that list of names. Even though that's what my sister named her kid, and he's a cute little shit, it's not all that original anymore. Of course, if you go in that direction neither is mine...

[lara7.livejournal.com]

You have Steven twice.

FWIW, I've slept with 7 of these.

But I've never met a Clark, ever.

[heraclitus.livejournal.com]

Feh. Have you seen the shit the kids of future generations are going to be named? Parents these days basically open up cans of alphabet soup to name their kids.

Traditionally, it's supposed to be either the first name is generic, and the middle name is evocative of something - whether a relative, an idea, a non-human object or a name from a foreign language. I'm Reverend John David Liberty Bell the Fifth (D.D.), for example, because "Liberty" was what my parents were going to name me if I was a girl. My good buddy Burke/Bisquick is Erik Clifford Bostock (after his grandfather), and the Chipotle of much note in my journal is Charles Coombs Huston (also after his grandfather). If you're looking for something more original, either use nick, middle or last names, which is how I keep hordes of otherwise indistinguishably named people apart.

And besides, you women aren't much better. Something like half the girls on this continent have some variation on Catherine as either a first or middle name. :P I know six or so personally.

[heraclitus.livejournal.com]

Neither have I, in fact. I think the Superman thing scared parents away from it.

[infinite-hiatus.livejournal.com]

I've never met anyone named Clark.

slightly drunken answer

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

LAURAL RULES!!!

yeah every woman I know is named Jennifer or Angela. Fuck them.

My middle name is Hillary, btw.

And the very serious EX was named Nicholas Anthony John M*. (not jonathon, JOHN)
Isn't that terrible? But he was British, what can you do.

My father: Wilfred Charles B*. His father: Lorphy Wilfred B*.

oops

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

my housemate is Steve.

And my um third? fourth? I think that's right. the boy I dated before my five-year relationship was Clark. vileinfestation, he dumped me though. hahaha, more fool him.

[lara7.livejournal.com]

>>Feh. Have you seen the shit the kids of future generations are going to be named? Parents these days basically open up cans of alphabet soup to name their kids.

I direct you to:

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

You'll laugh. Hard.

[stick-figure.livejournal.com]

I'm dating someone whose full name is comprised of three from that list.

[(Anonymous)]

Laural,

A good friend of mine used to keep an old nasal spray bottle full of saline during the winter. He would squirt it in his nose and let it wash back and forth before blowing it into a handkerchief. I don't remember him saying anything about it preventing colds; he said he needed it because his nose dried out too easily.

Gretchen Lane
Vassar College

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

ha, I wish to god my nose would dry out someday.