A way to relieve boredom, for one thing. I played around on babynames.com for a while and picked my top two boy and girl names, should Emily ever have siblings. Here they are.

GIRL
Isobel Emrys
Aubrey Simone

BOY
Evann Aldrich
Auben Brynmor

So there you have it.

But I collect domain names. I am now the proud owner of iheartemily.com, as well as the email addresses altomko@iheartemily.com and iheartemily@gmx.com.

Because I do. I so so so so so so so do.

Okay people, this is the plan: Every time you answer your phone and the person on the other end tells you they're "doing a brief opinion poll" please inform them that your opinion is that it should not be legal to call people's houses and ask them to take opinion polls. Worth a try, right?

It's easier to rage against the establishment when you're fighting corruption, rather than ineptitude. Corruption, at least, requires *some* degree of intelligence.

The other day I jokingly said that the plague would be back soon.

Yesterday on Yahoo:
After Colorado Teen's Death From Plague, How Worried Should We Be About the Disease?

Oh my God, I brought back the plague.

So here it is, yet another new LJ account for me, with yet more massive life changes to report. John and I are over. He's an idiot. I won't even go into it, but we're getting a divorce as soon as I get it all together. Loser. Good riddance to him, but I have, now, the most beautiful, amazing, wonderful, incredible, I could go on forever daughter in ( Read more... )