Ego-Surfing

I probably shouldn't be doing this. It really isn't my story to blog. But what the hey. I'm going to tell it anyway...

I'm sure everyone's done this at times - Googled their own name... Sadly for me, the only references that come up are related to work and another person with the same name as me. At one stage it was also possible to find a wedding notice in Conor's old school newsletter. What a shame that's gone now! (Not.)

Anyhoo, because he was really busy but also really bored yesterday, Con decided to Ego-Surf-by-Proxy, i.e. he knows what references show up for him and for me, so he went surfing for our friends' names.

The first one he found was for Gerry. It was an old entry in DCU's website about his final year project. Boooooring.
The next one was for Suzanne (sorry, she's not a blogger). It was a notice in a local newspaper about our international jetsetting pal's achievements abroad. Not wishing to demean Suz's accomplishments, but this was neither a long nor a particularly interesting piece, so I'm not even going to put a link to it. Oh, OK then. Link
The last was the most impressive. Deirdre was a girl that used to live with us when we were in college, but she didn't stay in touch with us, nor us with her really. Occasionally, we'd catch up with her - usually when the extended group were out for drinks, we'd had a few, and someone would suggest ringing her Mom to get her current contact details and/or whereabouts and then getting in touch to see if she was up for an impromptu night out. This was a surprisingly ineffectual way to contact anyone - for example, her mother has a life of her own and so was not a reliable source of information. Many's the time (well, twice) we tried to track Deirdre down, only to get stumped at the first hurdle, because her mom was not sitting by the phone, eagerly awaiting our phone call.

Anyway - Deirdre is kind of famous now. Well, she's got a certain kind of nerdy recognition and as far as I'm concerned, it's well-deserved. How many people do you know (even tenuously) that have won an international award for writing a Science Fiction short story??? Well, I do. Check it out. Congratulations D. I'm only a little bit jealous.