Geek Habitat

You Know You’re Bored When… You get curious and search for your maiden name in Amazon’s wish list area.

I hereby thank my parents for *NOT* naming my brother or I …

** Allegra Blackburn-Dwyer (it was so bad, she went ahead and hyphenated it to make it truly scary…)

** Aranzazu Blackburn (I really hope that’s due to an arranged marriage or something…)

** Ardith Blackburn (What drunk artists tell others their profession is? “I’m an ardith…”)

** Alisa Blackburn (poor kid…must get called everything BUT her name… Alisha, Alissa, Lisa, Allison, Elise…)

** Aloysius R. Blackburn (oh…my…word! Makes you wonder what the middle name is! Probably something equally twisted, like Rudolph or Rutherford… )

** Averill Wyman Blackburn (Ave-er-ill? Ave-er-eel? Ave-rill? Ave-reel? No-no-no-and-no. They’re all just wrong. At least spell it like the French, Avril. But that sounds too much like “Advil”… perhaps related to Allegra?)

** Beau Blackburn (I hope he’s at least cute… otherwise…well…should’ve named him Buddy!)

**And there are many more … scary… names. Almost 2000 names in fact!

Just some useless information on a Sunday night/Monday morning at 12:51 AM.

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The worst I ever dealt with was having people mistake “Blackburn” for Blackbird. I quickly learned to answer to all variants of “Shannon,” most frequently mistaken as Sharon, as well as to “Shannon B” due to two years of primary school in which I was one of three “Shannon”’s in attendance.

Of course, little did I know that my married name would be shared by none other than a strangely popular male wrestler (whom my former co-workers probably enjoyed Photoshopping with my visage!). At least I also share my name with an attractive but seemingly undiscovered female singer, among other folks I’m not completely weirded out to share my name with. None are relatives, and I think we all breathe a sigh of relief on that one. Families don’t need duplicate names unless it’s intentional, like Jr., Sr., III, etc.

Oh, in completely unrelated news — my left knee — hurts like mad today. Too much activity combined with changing air pressure equal pain and stiffness. At least I haven’t jumped off any ladders again since Thursday (well, it’s something!)