Whats in a name ?

Yesterday I just happened to think about my name ...now you ask , whats in a name ??? But you see , I don't really like my name . Like Sri says, it sounds so archiac :-( oh yeah ...my blogs will have a constant reference to this person , who btw is my adorable, loving and simply wonderful hubby of 3 months.

So speaking of names , remember back in school when there were 5 pooja's, 10 priya's , 15 Amits , and infinite sachins in every class ?? Yeah ...I was the only Sarita in the whole of high school :-O. And there was this other sarita in 3rd grade , who I never met the whole time I was in school ! That was the beginning of my dislike to the name, which only increased , when dad told me proudly that he choose this name over their other choice : Nisha !! What were they thinking ? I love that name . I still think I could pull off a Nisha rather than a Sarita :-(

I really have given serious thought to changing it at times , but then its too much work ! Remember Phoebe in the Friends episode where she changes her name to Princess Consuela Bananahammock ??? (Weird, I could still remember that name , it rolled right off my tongue :-)And her hubby changes it to 'crapbag'...it was hilarious when she had to introduce him :-D

So just to come to terms with the fact that I am stuck with this name till the day I die, I actually googled my name to check out what hits it came up with . ( you done that anytime , its fun ) And boy oh boy, I actually got hits ...yippeeee. It was pretty cool . Aside from the numerous nude pic links of a certain name-a-like, I was surprised to know that there is a town in Texas with my name (complete with a local area guide online ) . Also came to know Sarita in spanish means "princess" . Now maybe dad was not all that off naming me sarita ;-). So I have finally made peace with myself, hoping I have a daughter some day I will name Pooja :-D

The weekend is here again and I will be doing nothing fun . Major plans of driving to Chicago to meet up with Sniggsie (who is interning there ) and have blast downtown , have been ditched. Just no money to even eat out at our cheapo 'china star' for this month :-( . I tell you china star is total pyasa vasool , if you are ok with encountering an occasional used bandage or pork in your "flied lice" (thats chinese for fried rice :-D

I guess its back to the lab and get some work done .