Backin' That Thing Up.

Just got finished backing up my hard-drive again, and I am now running a lot of OS updates. I can't do much else beside just surf the 'Net, but I really, really want to finish some art pieces in Photoshop. Gah, it's going to be hours before I can actually do stuff!

Backin' That Thing Up.

Just got finished backing up my hard-drive again, and I am now running a lot of OS updates. I can't do much else beside just surf the 'Net, but I really, really want to finish some art pieces in Photoshop. Gah, it's going to be hours before I can actually do stuff!

Well, It's About Time.

Finally! There is a Royal with my name (alternative spelling of my name at least)! Someone told me today that there is now a Savannah in the royal family. She's the daughter of Peter and Autumn Philips, granddaughter of Princess Anne, and the only great-grandchild as of yet of the Queen. It's nice that someone liked my name enough to add it to the British monarchy family tree... Unfortunately, as I was looking up some info from January about the birth, I got treated to page after page of American Anglo-philes trashing my name, describing it as "trailer trash" and "ugly" and "a disgrace to the Crown." What does that even mean? It's one syllable away from just being "Anna" for God's sake (my mother named me as such so that I would have my distant relation, Anne Boleyn, as a partial-namesake). What makes it so terrible? Just because it's not traditionally used in England doesn't make it a horrible name.

Weird fact culled from a old name book from the 1980's: Savanna, my name, is listed as being Spanish in origin and means "barren and unfruitful." Savannah, however, is listed as being African in origin and means "fruitful." In comparison to the geographical terms "savanna" and "savannah," both are grassland ecosystems, but only the savannah has trees (I guess that's why it's considered more fruitful).

Well, It's About Time.

Finally! There is a Royal with my name (alternative spelling of my name at least)! Someone told me today that there is now a Savannah in the royal family. She's the daughter of Peter and Autumn Philips, granddaughter of Princess Anne, and the only great-grandchild as of yet of the Queen. It's nice that someone liked my name enough to add it to the British monarchy family tree... Unfortunately, as I was looking up some info from January about the birth, I got treated to page after page of American Anglo-philes trashing my name, describing it as "trailer trash" and "ugly" and "a disgrace to the Crown." What does that even mean? It's one syllable away from just being "Anna" for God's sake (my mother named me as such so that I would have my distant relation, Anne Boleyn, as a partial-namesake). What makes it so terrible? Just because it's not traditionally used in England doesn't make it a horrible name.

Weird fact culled from a old name book from the 1980's: Savanna, my name, is listed as being Spanish in origin and means "barren and unfruitful." Savannah, however, is listed as being African in origin and means "fruitful." In comparison to the geographical terms "savanna" and "savannah," both are grassland ecosystems, but only the savannah has trees (I guess that's why it's considered more fruitful).