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| Tue, 07-26-2005 - 11:09am |
since we were discussing other message boards, i'm curious - where else on the net do you all hang out? what other ivillage boards do you all go to (either regularly or just occasionally)? what about non-ivillage boards? friendster or myspace?
on a different topic, when was the last time you googled yourself? someone else?

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i think i've discussed the origin of my name here before, haven't i? yes, we took on a common made-up name when we married. that's the only name i've gone by since 1997.
it is very hard to make up a name, and one of the things we considered when doing it was that we didn't want to use a "real" last name. that is, we certainly didn't want to just pluck a name like "smith" or "parker" out of nowhere and use it as our last name. so we made up a name that sounded like a last name (though we had many hours of laughter over possible crazy-sounding names like "jen gobbledygook" etc.)
You might have told us but I can't remember hearing about it.
well it wasn't "so i wouldn't have his last name" but yes, we both took on a new last name that neither of us had ever had before and that we thought we made up from scratch (but apparently not because it turns out that people actually do have the name).
i.e.: jennifer reynolds marries frank white and they become jen and frank whismeld (hey, i just made up "whismeld" - i wonder if there are people who actually have THAT name too.)
and i still use that same made-up name now even though we are divorced.
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You are so interesting!
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