As for my actual occupation, I’m a cashier at Target. And for fun, I draw a web comic – about retail. Big stretch there.

I’m strangely hooked on this comic of yours, Adam.
Mark (ex-pat Brit who met his former wife on the Internet and moved to the USA)
.-= Astragali´s last blog ..Paper or Plastic? for 20100303 =-.

My first name isn’t that common, so it should be easy to remember. And yet, people misremember it often enough that I started introducing myself to other people using a shortened form of it.
.-= sitting pugs´s last blog ..Grab Bag of the Good Stuff: Love the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus =-.

I can’t remember where my surname is from, or what it stands for, but it has affected my life somewhat. Due to being Madeline Wilding, I can cut out eight letters from the two names and become Mad Wild. When I was younger I sorta used it as an excuse to live up to such a name, and now it’s just expected of me.

I always thought it was a Welsh surname, but apparently it’s not, which is a little dissappointing as I now have no real evidence of my half Welshness. And no excuse to continue attempting the accent….Except for to live up to my name :p

I once dated a girl who’s last name was pronounced exactly the same as mine, which led to some amusing incidents, mostly at hotel check-ins, etc.

My last name is based on a famous german river, but was changed during the first or second world war to avoid association with the Nazi’s. I don’t really have anything to do with rivers, tho, I have nothing against them.

I worked in an underground coal mine with a bloke called Mick Underhill.
.-= Ben´s last blog ..I’m all legs =-.

Never mind that her name actually means “bean” in German. It’s still awesome.
.-= Erika Hammerschmidt´s last blog ..Abby and Norma #503 =-.

For instance, in English (and a lot of other languages) we have the word “hydrogen,” which comes from ancient words meaning “water stuff”… while the Germans just call it “Wasserstoff.” And… hmm, let me think of another example… well, “diarrhea” comes from Latin or Greek words meaning “running through,” while “Durchfall,” the German word for “diarrhea,” simply means “through-fall” in plain German.
.-= Erika Hammerschmidt´s last blog ..Abby and Norma #503 =-.

the first day of school today– gaaaaaa.

I mean my favourite words are mostly of German origin… Schadenfreude, doppleganger… Just a knack for hitting the nail on the head.

But swapping your doctors around is dangerous unless you have crazy eyes or trouble seeing what you think.

I’m slightly envious of people with names of their own. I mean, that they don’t share with anyone. But, including your middle names, what a scrabble score!

I think Erika Ricker sounds amazing though… like shouting your name into a cavern and waiting for the echo.

It was more a problem that she kept leaving half-eaten birds on the carpet.

I didn’t know that I knew a mobster…. And is it me or is ‘construction’ a catch-all title for dubious activities.

I suppose you’d need to have construction links for the concrete boots you’d make, still.

What are you thinking of teaching?

You have my sympathy, the job centre is a like a kafka-esque nightmare these days. I guess they are so used to the mindset of trying to get people to work when they don’t want to that they find it difficult to help someone who actually wants to work.

And ‘unpaid placements’ isn’t that just a term for what used to be called ‘slavery’. (unless it’s somewhere really cool, like a chocolate factory).

Ah, sodastreams… showing your age