Naming blogs

So naming a blog is a whole lot harder than I initially thought. I mean, one second I was thinking, "I should start a blog...", and literally a nanosecond (one-billionth of a second, that is) later I was thinking that no more than 189 or so nanoseconds after that, my psychotically genius mind would kick out a title for the ages. And mind you, this would be no ordinary, garden-variety, "Welcome-to-Sarah's-Blog" title. No, this title would scintillate to supernova-brightness with creativity, cleverness, and originality. The sheer force of its brilliance would immediately snatch the attention of perusing potential publishers (you know, book publishers for all those books I want to publish some day) and cause them to exclaim to their bosses, "That girl is a genius. A genius, I tell you! We need to sign her up and crank out anything she's ever written right away..." ~ and the rest would be history. I mean, this brain is the same 3 pounds of budding stardom that produced gems such as "Principles, Propaganda, and Postmodernism," "Mocking the Moral Majority," and "Nuns and Ninjas" (please don't ask) to head up some of my college papers...all while impeded by way too little sleep, way too much Pepsi, and a very healthy dose of procrastination. So one lousy blog title while on a relaxing weekend at home with no pressure from professors, assignments, or any other vestiges of academia? No problem. No problem at all.

Except that the 189 nanoseconds passed with no title and no ideas for one ~ not even a terrible-to-the-tune-of "Choices, Catheters, and the Constitution" idea (yes, I did write a paper with that title...and, even more disturbingly, my professor gave me an "A" on it). So I waited for 189 more nanoseconds. And then 189 more. And then...well, then lots more. And when after a rather significant amount of time (think over 2 minutes...yes, 2 whole minutes, which, I might add, equals a whopping 120 billion nanoseconds) the best I could come up with was "Sarah the Fat & Fab Rebel", I decided to call it a day. Yes, a whole day. Yes, a day with 86.4 TRILLION nanoseconds. And then a day turned into a week, and the week into a month, and I won't go any further into that sad progression because you've surely heard it before, and at least 20 too many times to boot.

Not that I didn't get plenty of blog-name ideas during all of this time; I actually thought of a fair few. And as I've already posted samples of my mind-blowing titling abilities, you'd think a fair few would produce at least one winner, or at least a race-finisher ~ especially since my first name means "princess," which is a total gold-mine for, like, 13 kazillion or so blog-tastic labels ~ but, sadly, I couldn't even get to an idea I'd call decent. Not even halfway decent. Granted, I'm a bit of a perfectionist and my own worst critic to boot, but still, I was at least 3/4 of the way from "pathetic" to "got any brain cells left? ANY at all?"

And then the inspiration hit me. In one glorious stroke of sheer genius, I realized I'd already thought of a perfectly lovely blog-name long before I'd even considered starting a blog ~ over a year before, in fact. See, now that I'm officially out of college, I'm also officially old, which means I lose more brain cells every day, which means I need to use the few I have left to store seriously important information (you know, name, gender, birthdate...crazy stuff like that)...which means that using extra cells to remember a different username for every single e-mail account I have, every single Internet forum I post on, etc., would just be downright wasteful. So I got the brilliant idea to come up with a couple of different usernames ~ like, two or three ~ and distribute them equally among the various websites I bless with my presence on a regular basis. One of them is based on the words "geek" and (what else?) "princess." And, after months of trying to think up a passable blog-name, I realized, why settle for passable, or even good? I could cobble together a perfectly brilliant name from my already-brilliant username. GENIUS. And so, as 2008 left behind its glory days and descended into its doom (that's melodrama-speak for the beginning of November, people), this blog sprang into existence as "Sarah, Princess of Geeks"...which I now present to you without further ado. And yes, that was my lame attempt at a cute rhyme.