Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Put on Your Thinking Caps!

There was an overwhelming response to my rather lame post in which I toyed with the idea of firing up the blog again. Thank you for your comments. However, one friend suggested changing the name of the blog and hence "changing my destiny." It's a notion that's surfaced before. Is the self-proclaimed title of Love Pariah, actually a self-fulfilling prophecy? But changing the name of the blog would be breaking the thread of posts, erasing that history and starting from a clean slate. Wait. That's not really a con is it?

I know we're all sick of hearing about polls after a protracted presidential campaign, but if you could indulge me here... What should a new blog be named? Something reflective of its content but perhaps not so... doomed.

Here are some options, feel free to weigh in with your own ideas.
Cautiously Optimistic
The Sun Will Come Out
Getting Real
Jurassic Journalist

OK, the last one is a bit obtuse. After nearly failing my science requirement in college, I decided to shift from Chemistry to Geology for the 9 credits I needed to graduate. I still don't get why a journalism major even needs a science requirement. Unless, you want to work for Popular Science in which case you're a big nerd clearly overqualified for our field of study and should just over-achieve ass straight to Nat Geo! Anyway, I figured licking rocks was easier than memorizing formulas. But I still had to memorize. In geology it was the geologic periods. I employed a mnemonic device to help me. So Jurassic was someone asking me for directions.. "Your asking" (Jurassic) the wrong person, "Try asking" (Triassic) Cretaceous. I know, dumb but it worked!

How do I figure Jurassic Journalist? Well, first off you probably noticed the alliteration. But I like what Jurassic represents. According to wiki:
Jurassic Period did not witness any major extinction event. The start and end of the period are defined by carefully selected locations; the uncertainty in dating arises from trying to date these horizons.

Don't you just love it?! Nobody dates my horizons, you got that fruitcake? Damn straight. What? Tell me. I'm standing by....