It has been over two months since I've posted. I'm officially a blogging loser! This is bad. Let's just say that I've been busy enough this summer that I really haven't had time to do any internet stuff. I've updated my facebook status a few times, but that takes only seconds and there is no pressure to spell-check. I haven't checked out the latest on YouTube or browsed for those long-lost high school friends who are bound to join a social networking site sooner or later. WHERE ARE YOU SUSAN NEILSON?
Lets take a moment to explore this. I KNOW Susan got married, but I have NO idea what her last name is now. This is the case with most of my friends from way back when. Since virtually all our communication is online, and I have either never met or only briefly met husbands, I don't know my friends' last names. I have two women in my contact list on my phone who are listed with their maiden names--NOT because they still use them, but rather because I don't know (or am unwilling to totally misspell) their new last names.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not some anti-leave-and-cleave feminist. I believe in taking your husbands name. But WHY don't MySpace and Facebook make it easy to include a maiden name in the personal info sections so people have an easier time searching for you.
That was not the direction I anticipated this going, but then I seldom write what I had anticipated. Hopefully you'll be hearing more from me soon.
