Today we had a doctors appointment for Edie. She’s very healthy, gaining an average of an ounce a day for her first two weeks. The most interesting issue so far – I’ll stop short of saying “problem” – continues to be her name. The nurse taking Edie’s weight and temp mistook her for a boy, [...]
This article from the Daily Mail has been floating around the web a bit, on naming practices, femininity, and the social consequences thereof. Turns out that the more feminine a girls name is, the less likely they are to go into a career in the sciences. Take a look at the femininity scale, above. As [...]
So today I have to – per usual – make a last minute copy just before my class. That’s not too difficult, a quick one page review sheet for an exam, 35 copies at a machine right next to my office in a barren hallway at the ungodly hour of 9:00 am. Normally this takes [...]
(these are emails received in the last month by people who have known me for three years) This semester an old old problem has returned to my life. Suddenly, without warning, people have started calling me John. As I revealed in the post where I discovered I do not exist, my first name is fact [...]
Since Sarah is Obviously Pregnant now, at 25 weeks, people whom we don’t usually discuss her pregnancy and our future baby (read: practical strangers) have been asking some personal questions. So I thought I’d list the Top Questions To Expect When You’re Expecting, Asked and Answered: Q: Do you know if it’s a boy or [...]
Via Kieran Healy, I found this website, which calculates how many people in the United States have your name. I happen to know that my name is very easy to Google, so I figured that there were not too many people with my name. I turns out that only 720 people in the United States [...]
