Friday, May 04, 2007

googling myself

I was . . . a little bored at work today and I decided to google myself. I really didn't think I'd find myself, but after I did a little browsing around I was a little disappointed that I only found myself three times. I started with my married name and then realized that since I have only been married for a year, I should also check under my maiden name. This is what I found:

the "Erica Jackman" search
http://kenison.net/calendar/index.php?p=calsubmit&curDay=1&curMonth=3&curYear=2007
Ok, I don't think that this really counts, but it did show up in google. Tom's uncle maintains a website which has a family calendar and our anniversary is on it.

the "Erica Taylor" search
http://kennedy.byu.edu/student/InterculturalOutreach/edintern_team.php
You have to click on the "Fall 2005" link to see me. This is the semester Tom and I met :)
http://mormonlit.lib.byu.edu/lit_author.php?a_id=6838&orderby=sort_genre&PHPSESSID
I was really surprised to see this link show up. Especially since the poem isn't actually there when you click on the link. . .

The "Erica Taylor" search was pretty difficult because there are lots of them out there. There is a basketball player, a musician, someone missing after hurricane Katrina. It took me awhile to sift through all of those pages. I actually went to high school with another "Erica Taylor." It was very confusing and the school got our stuff mixed up all of the time. Especially since her name was "Erica Jane Taylor" and mine was "Erica Jean Taylor" and we share the same birthday (except she's a year younger). Also, she was a triplet and one of the triplets was named Kara and I also have a sister named Kara. Weird. I was actually surprised at how many "Erica Jackman"s there were. I guess I'm not the only one :)

3 comments:

Jan said...

Interesting........ What gave you the idea to do that?

One of the characters on "Medium" googled himself in an episode - I think it was two weeks ago.... Wondered if that gave you the idea.....

Aren't you a "Grey's Anatomy" fan? Have you been checking the podcasts and blogs on the Grey Matters site?

Erica said...

I don't think anything in particular gave me the idea, I was just bored.

I like Grey's Anatomy okay, it's not my favorite show, but I'll have to check out the podcasts and blogs.

Jan said...

Well, if you're bored, you might check out all of the Gilmore Girls blogs - so many folks are venting in their blogs because of the show's cancelation. I'm taping Ellen on Tuesday to see Lauren Graham.....