baby names, friends

dont forget about the baby name contest. winners receive fabulous prizes! and speaking of, for your inspriation and entertainment, I present to you the coolest applet on the web: the NameVoyager. it's quite addictive, and if you have a living room full of friends with you, you might just be sitting there entering names in for hours on end. quite the modern parlor game.

anyway, it seems to be the time of year when friends come and go. I guess being still closely associated with academic types makes August a transition month. some old college friends are coming back into town. Joel and Jenny and the girls are returning very soon, and I saw Sarah D back from Slovakia the other day too.

but the hardest part will be losing our best friend Sarah, who is going to grad school in CT for a few years. she's very close with Michelle, and I've known her for 10 years now, which is somewhat amazing to me. alls I got to say is that she better come back, and she better visit often. we will miss her greatly.