No, no, those are kids' names. Also Mami, Canberra, Chin, Arm, Everest...but you have to remember that the majority of these parents and kids don't speak English as their first language, and most of the Thai kids have a 'proper', many-syllabled first name, but will be generally known by either a monosyllabic Thai nickname (translating as, to take examples from among my Thai acquaintance, Prawn, One, Apple, Fatty...) or else something that sounds cool because it's in a foreign language, ie English.
sighs.
'Course, Everest's mum is American, and she's a teacher. And she's lovely, and I confess that if I ever had kids they'd likely get called things like India or Serendipity or Shazam...but I do think that any name that can be made easily into a joke is unfortunate. I mean, mount is also a verb, for goodness sakes.
...still, that's probably just my reaction, having read too much slash.
I love my Thai students' monosyllabic nicknames as much as I love their full Thai names -- especially since they have apparently fuckall to do with the full name, in marked contrast to the Western pattern of nicknames usually being some kind of shortening (or at least reference to) the full thing.
Whenever we speak of names I feel it is necessary to mention that I will never forgive a friend of Perkins' and mine who had a wonderful, lyrical Chilean surname and yet traded it for her DH's when they married. His last name? Gross.
And we will not discuss what they named their son. Whitefont: Max!
It'll be fine. Now that you know that it's right there, it wont be special anymore. You'll buy a bunch of stuff right off, then taper off.
That's what we've discovered since the 2 in the Boston area opened up. After a while, you're all, JEBUS this is far too expensive! Can't I get something in Target just as good for much cheaper? But the bath bombs and shampoo bars are pretty mildly priced, and those are what we get the most of.
Well, I'm unflaggingly loyal to Coalface and Happy Hippy. If I can get those locally instead of pulling my usual routine of waiting until the very last minute to order it because I forgot that I was running low, that'll make me happy.
What's your windchill?
And why do I - 6 hours SE of you have to deal with temps that are only 5 degrees warmer?
(Yes, it is now a balmy -10 here in n. IL.)
Ooh, except it's not - now it's an even balmier -7. We very well may make it to 0 for lunch.
Woo-hoo! We're up to -2 in Chicago.
It's gonna get a lot warmer after today....
We're at -4.2.
I hope it gets alot warmer!
To my coworkers (I'm not yet sure which one is to blame--I've received conflicting reports):
Why, why, WHY would I say a orientation session for the new interns was scheduled for a conference room on the second floor of the hospital, and put that location on the orientation schedule, if what I really meant was that it was in the research & training building across the street?! Given that that would be CRAZY, why, WHY did you tell them to meet in the R&T lobby instead of coming to my office to be guided to the hard-to-find conference room, like I said on the schedule?!?!!
I haven't had a bite to eat or a drop of caffeine yet because I've spent my entire morning paging people and chasing the missing interns around the hospital campus. I finally located them and got them to the right place...but WHY did my coworkers think I'd put that room on the schedule if I didn't MEAN it? Yes, we usually use R&T for this, but all the rooms there were booked! I do what I can! What's the point of trying to organize this place if they just ignore what I do?!
