Onerous: took pub-trans downtown on grimy, rare hot SF day to deal with gov't agency.

Bonus onerosity: Wasted trip! Nothing accomplished.

When I was single, my name doppelganger was my cousin, who was white and married into the family, very controversially. She was the first, it's all good by now.

Now, there are a few of me out there, a paralegal in Texas and a real estate agent in Asheville. There's more, probably, but those are the ones I know offhand.

Oh, that sucks, David. My onerosity is going badly. I really don't like these tasks. But that's why they're still on my desk. And they're necessary. And I would like the SO to come home to a completely up to date office.

But first I want dinner. Which is what I said at lunchtime. So one more 15 minute session of onerous and then I can make a start on dinner. I really just need a nap.

Timelies all!

I have one name doppleganger that I know of. Don't remember what exactly she does, but it's fairly high up in a big company.

I have a doppelnamer who lives in the Bay Area and was a high ranking exec for Chevron. There was another one who died at Andersonville. And another one who is a fighter pilot who flew in Iraq.

(All people of my last name are related, incidentally. We all descend from one guy who had his name mangled from the German when he came to America in the early 1700s.)

However, I am most of the first page of hits when I Googlebate.

Oh, that sucks, David.

It does, but I'll head over to the Farmer's Market and get some of those really good tomatoes (dry farmed Early Girls) and an empanada for Emmett and life will be just that much better.

There are many of me. One was 1 year behind me in middle school.

Got my swimming mojo back after a rough week. Got an estimate on when the downspout will be replace (answer: not for a couple weeks.) Did not make vet appts, which I need to do. WIll have hole in ceiling while parents visit. I might cover it temporarily with paper. I hate looking at it.

My parents arrive in a week. I need to do So Much Putting Away.

But tonight was a good swim, I'm not super cranky, I have an interesting problem to sort out tomorrow at work (it's the sort of thing I enjoy,) and the only unavoidable chore left for the night is to take out the recycling. Which I will do after I finish eating.

Most of my doppelnamers are in the arts or education. Most of the top hits for my name are for a choreographer from Texas, but my website and my LinkedIn are within the first couple pages on Google. And I'm glad to see that my FB does not seem to rank very high.

I used to not exist at all online, under my actual name. But then I showed up in photos when I performed at a festival. Then everything after that was work related and still is.

Although I tried to find those old festival photos, and they didn't pop up, so I searched my name and Wichita, and got really scared because it showed a picture of my apartment. Well, close to my apartment. But it turned out to be some innocent Oregon grandmother's blog.

She'll wonder where all the hits are coming from, but they're some great pictures of my stomping grounds, including the brewery where all my big corporate money went.

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The name doppelganger I know the most about has won or placed in several middle and high school swim meets.

But mostly my vanity searches turn up a lot of German porn.