This is pretty neat. I'm posting from within GAIM.

Yay for avoiding actually writing an essay for class by doing extensive research about the topic.

Two essays due tomorrowtoday at 1230. Neither even started.

(00:33:25) kristin copeland: if it ain't baroque, don't fix it

(19:22:55) alvy white: youare sooooooooo literal:D
(19:23:28) me: literal?
(19:24:15) alvy white: well, its just like ....i dunno, u seem so, um, tangible
(19:24:27) alvy white: like, if the world tripped in acid, you'd be like shit
(19:24:34) alvy white: very colorful
(19:24:37) alvy white: ...

(19:29:47) alvy white: god, i'm the person my mother warned me about...



Sorted by nr of chat lines, alvy is now at the very top of my IM list (at least for the MS interns group).

From the Smith (surname) page:

Following the failed Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland, which began around 1715, many Scots adopted the last name Smith to disguise their connection with rebellious clans.

I do believe that my ancestors (I'm fully a quarter Scots) were involved in that. So that means that if the Jacobite revolution had succeeded I might have a less common surname.