Como se llama?
I couldn’t sleep last night so I was watching a marathon of America’s Next Top Model (yeah, I know) and the contestants had to think of a unique name for themselves like “Iman” or “Madonna” or something else memorable. A few of them kept their name because they had a unique and unusual name, like Jennifer. Not really, but it would have made for a better show. I decided to think of a name for myself because Patricia or Trish is not that unique and memorable. My initials are PDR so maybe I could just tell everyone I’m the Physician’s Desk Reference and call it a day. I don’t think I’d like all those questions about drug side effects, though.
I asked my mother once if she had thought of any other names for me before I was born, hoping that I came really close to being named something cool and unusual. She told me that she had originally wanted to name me “Stacy.” Obviously my parents did not have dreams for me to be on a reality TV show.
Have you noticed how a reporter will use a word and then everyone grabs onto it and then it’s all you hear? That happens a lot here during hurricane season, especially over the last few years. Phrases like “hunker down” and “dirty side of the storm” are way overused. I wonder if a secret book is published every year for weathermen as to what phrases and words are “in” this season. The book for political reports recently came out and it seems like the top phrases this year are “change,” beer drinking democrats” and “chardonnay drinking democrats.” I’m not sure what you do if you’re a merlot drinking democrat or tequila shooting independent who occasionally votes with the democrats.
January 27th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
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January 28th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Heh…
I hate to say it, but there really *is* a book.
Well, not a book. It’s more like a memo…
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