Echo is a fine name as long as the parents aren't Dollhouse fans. Then it gets a little weird.

I got through school well enough with an alternative first name. It can be done.

Also, what Jessica said.

How do people traverse tumblr? I have gotten a couple provocateuse likes and reblogs from people I don't know and who aren't following it.

I'm watching the Nova about dogs On Demand and it's really good. Very interesting.

And I'm (finally) using my umbrella swift properly. (Although, I misplaced a crucial part to my ball winder so I'm just hand winding it.) And my cat is fast asleep right in front of it. That is the good part of having an older cat. A kitten would not allow this to happen in front of her without inciting chaos.

Interesting. My sister asked me to Priceline her a hotel room. I'm assuming those prices are pre-tax? When I called the hotel directly it gave me a different (lower) price, which is also lower than the price you get when you look them up on the JFK airport website. That doesn't seem fair.

I'm sorry for your loss, Dana.

Dana, I just read Apocalypse, and I'm sorry for your loss...

Nilly,

We're doing fine, thanks. As for my pixels, I have been churning out a lot of them lately since I'm doing NaNoWriMo, though I doubt it will be anything that people will ever see. Carla told me that there is a theory that you first have to write a million bad words before you reach the good ones, so I am just trying to work my way past them at the moment.

Dana, my condolences.

Sue, that's fantastic! Wanna come do my stairs?

So I'd planned on doing the leaves this morning. Yeah, that didn't happen. When I finally went out to go to the pool...the leaves were done! Neighbor Anna did them this morning! I guess doing hers a couple weeks back got me that. Tree still isn't done, so I guess next weekend, I'll do them. Meant I did have time to run out looking for a dress. Nothing found.

Neighbor kid came by for his school fundraiser, which is kinda a cool one. Instead of buying crap, you buy a charity gift. You can pick which programs. They've got local ones (meals for kids, Bea Gaddy, etc) and international ones (clean water, vitamins, etc.) [link] Anyway, I asked him to tell me which was his favorite and why. He was positively evangelical about mosquito nets for malaria because " stops bug bites that KILL KIDS!" He was really appalled by this. So of course, I had to do one of those.

ita, I am owltlet on tumblr, if that helps. I haven't figured out a way to reblog without following.

I have been working like crazy, integrating my various web presences into kind of a consortium. I have my new tumblr up (owltlet.tumblr.com) and I'm redesigning a new wordpress page (it's NOT finished yet, but it's owltlet.wordpress.com, FYI) and syncing my Twitter with both.

I'm keeping LJ for personal and more private blogging, and not connecting ANYTHING to FB.

I'm trying to set my new blog up to be something I can use to (1)focus on writing (creative and non-fiction), book and movie reviews, and issues running the gamut from feminism to pedagogy to unemployment, so that I will not only be able to entertain myself with it, but have a good sample of my Wordpress and social media skills, and a base for any articles I might want to try to sell.

If anyone has any good sites that seem to do this, or good teaching sites on making oneself a social media guru, please let me know. Several jobs out there I almost applied for, but I need a little more hands-on info on SEO and analytics and such.

Replies here, or at email addy are fine.

I got through school well enough with an alternative first name. It can be done.

Oh of course. It's not that the name isn't mainstream--it's that specific name. I was thinking more about the temptation kids might have to repeat everything she says or say, "Hey, is there an echo in here?" when she walks into the room. Honestly, though, it's no big thing. I was just surprised when I saw the name.